Ecuador and Peru to Create 1.8 Million Acre Biosphere Reserve

[Judi Lynn]

Ecuador and Peru to Create 1.8 Million Acre Biosphere Reserve


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A portion of the dry forest in Ecuador, set to become part of the region's first bi-national biosphere reserve, is seen in
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Published 29 December 2015

The reserve would protect dry forests along the shared border.


The South American countries of Ecuador and Peru have agreed to create what is being dubbed the region's first bi-national biosphere reserve on their shared border.

Starting in 2016, Ecuador's Ministry of the Environment will work with Peru's National Service for Natural Protected Areas to have the Arenillas and Tumbes forests be declared a bi-national biosphere reserve by UNESCO.

“Between Ecuador and Peru we have shared a dry forest where part of the Arenillas reserve is part of a shared ecosystem. We will develop a dossier to present to UNESCO next year,” Paola Inga, Ecuador's director of the project, told El Telegrafo.

Inga added that both countries intend to work in collaboration with the communities in the area.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Ecuador-and-Peru-to-Create-1.8-Million-Acre-Biosphere-Reserve-20151229-0032.html

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Ecuador and Peru being friendly to one another? Wow.

I still remember the maps of Ecuador that include the north-east Peruvian Amazon! Big border dispute.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Did not know about that! Thanks for passing on information worth researching to learn more.

Everything we learn about Latin America in the States almost as to be something we take on individual effort to research ourselves, as so very little about everything south of the border never gets recognition in US schoolrooms. Guess it's not surprising when you learn later in life how much actual US history, especially regarding US treatment of the original citizens here, and of US human rights activists right here in this country, have been completely omitted, as well.

Have heard Ecuador used to have a notoriously unstable government, before Rafael Correa.