Land rights for Peru’s Amazon key in climate fight - World Bulletin | RAINFOREST EXPLORER | Scoop.it

“Indigenous communities need to safeguard 20 million hectares in order to slow the climate crisis...Peru lost 246,000 hectares to deforestation in 2012, twice the previous year’s total, as expanded agriculture and logging of hardwoods hacked away at the forests’ ability to contain global carbon emissions...With the world’s fourth largest share of tropical forests and 10 to 15 percent of the planet’s species, Peru is especially vulnerable to climate change."