Peruvian Lungs for the Planet
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 Pri...