Living Jungle Partnership
Background Story: Declaration of Yurimaguas
The corporation Romero is deforesting 200 hectares of primary-growth rainforest per day near Yurimaguas in Peru. That's the size of London every day! The total size of the project is 30,000 hectares for mono-culture palm oil plantations. That's 150 times the size of London. Read more about this case at WRM - English . See the complete Declaration of Yurimaguas in Spanish / English (doc) / German (doc).
Location on Google Map: -5.9719,-76.085472
Is it possible to stop them? Is it legal to deforest primary growth rainforest? Local people are saying, that their regional and national government has been bribed by Groupo Romero. Groupo Romero is threatening local people with weapons to sell their land and by poisoning their water resources and denying access to their properties by violence, they force their rights to claim ownership of rainforest land in order to build their mono-culture palm-oil empire in the whole of the region.
As the demand of bio-diesel, which is made from palm oil is rising, the pressure on local communities to sell their forests as a short gain profit is rising. If rainforests are deforested these trees cannot capture CO2 in the atmosphere anymore, thus contributing to global warming. The ecological equaqtion of bio-fuel made of palm oil is destructive: Per litre bio-diesel there are 800 % more green house gases than with fosile diesel. More than half of the Earth's species live in the rainforests. These rainforests are also the home of 50 Million indiginous people as well as the source of biodiversity and many yet unknown plants of medical value.
Please donate to Living Jungle to help us buy the land before it is being sold to Grupo Romero. You'll receive a certificate indicating the location of the piece of the rainforest that you helped to buy. You will be able to see the location of the rainforest that you have saved on Google Earth at Spot your plot.
