Oil and natural gas exploration permits are multiplying in the Amazon region, especially in its most remote and biodiverse corners, say researchers.
LIMA, Aug 25 (Tierramérica).- More than 180 oil and natural gas fields extend across the western Amazon, shared by five South American countries and threatening biodiversity and indigenous lands, states a study by U.S.-based organizations.
Peru is the most worrisome case: 72 percent of its jungle territory overlaps with plans for exploiting fossil fuels, says the report "Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity and Indigenous Peoples", published Aug. 13 by the open-access online scientific journal PloS ONE.
Blocks for oil and gas extraction cover an area of more than 688,000 square kilometers in the Amazon regions of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, and there are at least 35 multinational companies operating them, according to the researchers, who come from Duke University in North Carolina and the non-governmental organizations Save America's Forests and Land Is Life.
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