Geography Of Peru Essay

Who owns paradise, and who has a right to choose? This question may be far more complex than one might think, especially when determining which people have rights to a piece of land, and what activities can be done on it. The issue becomes even further complicated when there are indigenous communities that have been there for centuries, when the land can be used to ignite the economy and when the land is detrimental to helping out the environment. An example of this type of controversial debate can be seen in the region of Tambopata, Peru. There are many voices in this fight, and even more options for what the land should be used for. For Tambopata, there are four proposals up for debate of how the region should be broken up by allowed activity.

The way that WE plans on helping the environment is through carbon sequestration and to use a practice called “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation” (REDD). An in depth analysis report called the “High-Resolution Carbon Geography of Peru” by Gregory Asner et. Al shows a map (found on page 5) of Madre de Dios, the region Tambopata is in. This map shows the aboveground carbon density levels for the area. In total, there are over 9 billion tons of carbon in this region (Asner et. al, 2014). Based on a site made by the Bosques Amazonicos project, REDD would help in the following ways: it would increase economic value of the healthy forest, illegal deforestation will be stopped because of the implementation of forest monitoring systems, and the legal administrative services would be strengthened (Walid, 2017). Based upon past projects that WE has worked on in the Rio Bravo region of Belize, this project is expected to be very successful. The Rio Bravo project ended up preventing the net emission of 1,660,260 metric tons of carbon dioxide in the region (Carbon Sequestration Project Conservation,