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In Peru, Kichwa tribe wants compensation for carbon credits

Por: ABC News Business December 22, 2022

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SAN MARTIN, Peru -- Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. Nothing has been the same since that day, when a park ranger took away his hunting rifles. Now where there was once self-sufficiency, hunger has stalked his village.Zumba’s story has its roots in the 2001 creation of Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park, a stretch of Peruvian rainforest in the foothills of the Andes where... + full article



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