The Amazon comprises approximately 62% of our national territory, making it the second largest tropical forest in the world after Brazil. However, existential threats such as deforestation and illegal mining, as well as gaps in basic services, do not contribute to its economic or sustainable development. Currently, 90% of economic activities in that place are illegal, highlighted Samuel Dyer, president of the Pro Amazonia Group.
To date, 85% of our Amazon is already deforested and, according to the Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Ángel Manero, in order to stop these activities, the necessary measures are already being taken by the Executive.
“The forest that is intact and exceeds almost 60 million hectares has to be maintained as it is. We cannot allow there to be even one more meter of deforestation in Peru. For this reason, we are going to begin to georeference the entire forest, within the framework of ecological zoning and the guidelines of the European Union.”he pointed.
Along these lines, one of the objectives that is intended to be developed in the V Congress of Amazonian Entrepreneurs (CEA), soon to be held on June 5 and 6 in the city of Tarapoto (San Martín), is the development of a Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Development of the Amazon to 2050. The goal set for that year is to reduce illicit and informal activities to zero, as well as illegal logging, illegal mining and illicit crops, Dyer explained.
On the other hand, Ericka Sandy Salazar, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Production and Tourism of San Martín and of the V Congress of Amazonian Entrepreneurs (CEA), highlighted the importance of taking advantage of the large percentage of territory that is in the Amazon and eliminate gaps in basic services in order to enhance tourism activity.
“Tourism at a global level provides 1 in every 11 jobs and in the San Martín region alone there are about 180 potentially tourist places that require services and community for foreign tourists,” he explained.
Source: Larepublica
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