Peru: Mining and Agriculture impacting negatively Brazil nut harvesting

Trust.org reported….Brazil nut harvesting – a sustainable use of the forest in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios region – provides thousands of people with an income in the first few months of each year. But mining and agriculture concessions overlap the harvesters’ concessions, threatening both their way of life and the forest, according to a new study by the Center for International Forestry Research. “Brazil nuts are a very important resource for rural poor people in this region,” says CIFOR senior scientist Peter Cronkleton. “They’re a non-timber forest product that really provides the basis of a livelihood for people, while maintaining the forest.” Read Article