Gran Pajatén, "our geographical fortress" / Roldán Rojas Paredes.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Rojas Paredes, Roldán.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

United Nations.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 pages)

Contained In:

The UNESCO Courier Vol. 2019, no. 2, p. 60-61 2019:2<60 22202293

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

It was a region devastated by intensive rubber production in the nineteenth century, and occupied by drug cartels and guerrillas - who made it a lawless zone overrun by coca plants, where the trafficking of cocaine was routine - in the 1980s. But today thousands of people live off mixed agroforestry here, planting cacao and other crops. In this area of the Central Cordillera of Peru, UNESCO designated the Gran Pajatén Biosphere Reserve in 2016. Roldán Rojas Paredes was at the heart of the project.

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