Intereses Diversos

Apasionada en 2015, luego de casi un año de andar trabajando por la selva y luego de decidir disfrutar los bellos paisajes pero no sin una bicicleta, me aventuré a realizar un paseo de montaña por la carretera hacia un pueblo llamado "infierno" en Puerto Maldonado; salí entonces con algunos amigos. La carretera resultó pedregosa y sin darme cuenta de la ligera pendiente del camino, que no conocía aún, sentí como rodaba acelerando sin ya siquiera poder pedalear. Me puse muy nerviosa al ver la bicicleta fuera de control, moví los cambios y al sentir que ésta seguía acelerando decidí tontamente frenar con los dos frenos izquierda y derecha. Fue un error que me costó una aparatosa caída en donde salí disparada al estilo proyectil. Por suerte terminé ilesa tengo sólo una cicatriz y felizmente no perdí mis dientes.  En Pucallpa aprendí a usar los cambios!! Luego de aquél fatal episodio, me preocupé y cuestioné a mi misma si realmente sabía utilizar mi bicicleta; llegando a

The energy in the Peruvian poorest and most remote places is to see an electric generator and a container filled with liquid fuel. It is so weird and hard to find a solar panel in poor places, harsh environments, and geographically inaccessible places but always a fuel generator. There are politics for implementing new energy alternatives, and they are being developed more in the coastal part of the country, however, on the eastern side, there are not still developments carried out. For instance, in Madre De Dios region, solar panels can be found just in tourist lodges because in this region exists a very important sustainable tourism activity but not in homes. In Ucayali, for example, I could not see any or perhaps I did not have the opportunity to visit a place with one installed in large quantities at least in the jungle it is still hard to see. On the other hand, in Arequipa region, with the highest radiation level and more instructed population, it can be easily found thermic sol

Indiscriminate Forestry: Deforestation of Forests. The Forestry as an extractive activity must involve sustainable management measures for extraction planning. However, companies often prefer to have short term revenues by destroying the reserves in the land under contract with the government and/or exploiting from protected lands. In Perú exists related regulatory and a National organism for controlling; however the illegal wood is hard to control completely, as the extensions of lands are not an easy thing to handle for the government. This fact leads to a wide extension of Forest to be destroyed threatening ecosystems and species. To map the illegal wood exploitation I took data of the Regulatory Organism in Perú: Total Volume from illegal wood extraction per Region We can see from the graphic that three regions present more illegal wood extraction: Loreto, Ucayali and Madre De Dios. Total Volume (cubic meters) from illegal wood extraction per type of contract

No podía dejar de pronunciarme con relación a la controversia de la leche comercializada en Perú. En principio me inquieta la doble moral de los medios de comunicación Peruanos, por primera vez muy preocupados por la calidad de la leche consumida en el país, esto es casi un hito en nuestra historia.  Todo empezó por la noticia sobre el cambio de denominación exigido por Panamá a la leche de marca Puravida del Grupo Gloria. Este hecho produjo que en Perú recién los consumidores hayan descubierto que el producto Leche comercial no es puro o real. Ahora la Dirección General de Salud Ambiental (adjunto al Ministerio de Salud, que en Perú regula la industria alimenticia) ha retirado el Registro Sanitario otorgado y se encuentra revisando el expediente con el que se otorga autorización para su comercialización. Inclusive se encuentran cuestionando cuanto aditivo es nuevo para ellos, como es el caso de la carragenina, estabilizante utilizado además en una variedad de productos alimentici

I want to take this opportunity to show how extracting activities can cause devastation in the Amazon of Perú. I do not attempt to condemn these activities but to highlight they can be sustainable when technical and management strategies are well used for developing them. Fig 1: Authorized area for alluvial gold exploitation within a mining concession land. Laberinto district, Tambopata province, Madre De Dios Region. (Own source) Irresponsible alluvial mining practices in the production of alluvial Gold: Own source In Peru exists a concern about Amazon devastation caused by small scale mining activity. It is known that labor on the earth mixing the land and water to get alluvial Gold plays against the normal sediments present in rivers water, causing changes in the aquatic ecosystem and devastation of land as the topsoil is destroyed. That is the core of the Amazon devastation when it comes to alluvial raw material extraction. Mercury is used for the final extra

Sandoval Lake in  Tambopata Candamo National Reserve, Madre de Dios. (Own image) Amazon is well known as the lung of the Planet for its extension of forest and special ecosystems. Having lived for three years in the amazing Amazon of Peru, the question of how much of the planet's lung is Peruvian motivated me to write this.  The Earth planet has a territory land of  510,1 millones km², Peru is  1 285 215,60  km² . I n Peru exists a government organization called SERNARP, which is the acronymus of National Service of Natural Areas protected by the Government, that is in charge of publishing official records of natural protected areas. Looking up for the information provided by this Peruvian national organism, this time for this purpose I have selected or filtered only the forest extension in Perú among  the National Parks, National Sactuaries, National Reserves, Comunal Reserves, Protected Forest, Areas of Regional Preservation and Areas of Private Preservation, as fol