The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Peru may be playing a more visible role in climate negotiations, especially related to conservation of its tropical forests. But despite this, deforestation has been increasing over the past 15 years, much of it due to expanded cultivation of cash crops like African palm oil.
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