More than 30 thousand hectares of forest were lost! According to records from Peru’s National Forestry and Wildlife Service (SERFOPR), until the end of December 2016, illegal miners have deforested 30,000 hectares of the Amazon rainforest in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National Reserve (Madre de Dios region), in
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Torata is a small agricultural town in Peru, located only 6 km from the Cuajone minesite. Its people are very friendly and the town is well lit at night. In Torata, you can breathe pure air and enjoy crystalline streams formed from melting snowfall. One can drink the water directly out of
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As in many countries in the world, creating new jobs in Peru is costly and depends on economic growth. In most mining projects in Peru, it isn’t possible to offer direct employment to all community members in the area-of-influence of a mining site. For this, Indigenous Communal Enterprises are created to
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Peru is one of the most attractive countries in South America for mining. For 2017, the Peruvian mining portfolio consists of 46 mining projects with an estimated investment of over US$47 billion as indicated by the Minister of Energy and Mines, engineer Gonzalo Tamayo Flores, in a recent meeting with
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recently published a case study that analyzes the impact of stakeholder management in infrastructure projects during planning and development. To avoid infrastructure projects being considered a ‘failure’ due to lack of appropriate public support, integration of the wider community and more effective communication
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This is the second post in a two-part series focused on Indigenous community consultation best practices in the mining sector. Community support is essential for the success of mining projects. Meaningful involvement of Indigenous Peoples in decision-making relating to project development is necessary to obtain and maintain indigenous community support,
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This is the first post in a two-part series focused on Indigenous community consultation best practices in the mining sector. Following the release of its Position Statement on Indigenous Peoples and Mining in 2013, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has recently released the second edition of its
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Development projects often require the acquisition of land and, as projects are developed in populated areas (including both rural and urban areas), they present the potential to induce the dislocation and resettlement of people who occupy or use that land. Project proponents are as result required to negotiate with and
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Stakeholder engagement software is ideal for the cloud-based, externally hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model because the software tends to be used by geographically dispersed users with complex database and reporting requirements. Typically Software-as-a-Service falls into the category of “cloud computing.” The software and data exist on remote servers rather than
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Resource development in the form of oil and gas extraction and mining has the potential to considerably change the lives of people in northern and Indigenous communities. Exploration activity, drilling for oil, and mining have taken place for decades in the Canadian North as well as in other Indigenous communities,
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