LatinNews Daily - 18 July 2018

Peru: In its July 2018 report, an umbrella grouping of Peruvian NGOs working on mining conflicts called the Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros (OCM) has revealed that various mining concessions granted by the government overlap with nature reserves and areas of natural beauty. Controversy over a concession covering a tourist attraction known as the ‘Rainbow Mountain’ has drawn attention to the issue, and areas such as the Cordillera Huayhuash in the central Andes, home to one of the largest glacial areas in Peru, the Nor Yauyos Cochas reserve near Lima, and the Tabaconas Namballe reserve in the northern Cajamarca region are also said to be under threat. Meanwhile an April report from the Instituto del Bien Comun (IBC), a Peruvian NGO that works with rural communities to manage resources, shows that 18m hectares of land have been given over to mining concessions, covering 35% of communal lands worked by peasant farmer communities. The OCM report reveals that 198 social conflicts were reported in Peru in May, up from 176 in January, with 65.6% of socio-environmental conflicts attributed to mining concessions.

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