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. In 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 follows:



Data Source from SERNARP.

The total area (non considering some ohter small private parks from 97 to 105)  is 18 708 029,5 Ha or 187 080.29 km². However according to Forest Resources Assessment 2015 - FAO, forests in Perú represent 57.8 % of the 1.285.215,60  km² territory land, which means aprox. 74 000 000 Ha. That questioned me if for this mentioned report I was considered other land apart from the Peruvian Amazon forests.


Sandoval Lake in  Tambopata Candamo National Reserve, Madre de Dios. (Own image)
Conservation of the Forests across the Planet is of huge importance to preserve energy and chemical balance in the planet surface and the Earth atmosphere, equilibrium is reached anyway through change of physic and chemical conditions, consecuently life will be still sustainable for humans and other life beings as the climate change or adjustment of the planet is produced in our rythm of life. 

We should always take care of our planet... Amazon is beautiful.

y La Selva es hermosa!!



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