Editing Reforestation (section)

==== Peru ====
Approximately 59% of Peru is covered by forest.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vizzuality |title=Peru Deforestation Rates & Statistics {{!}} GFW |url=https://www.globalforestwatch.org/country/PER/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310072536/http://www.globalforestwatch.org/country/PER |archive-date=2018-03-10 |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=www.globalforestwatch.org |language=en}}</ref> A history of political turmoil and the government's inability to enforce environmental regulations has led to the degradation of the forest and environment in Peru. A military coup in 1968 caused a loss of economic mobility in the [[Talara Province|Talara]] region and sparked a boom in [[illegal logging]] due to the lack of alternative economic opportunities.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2020 |title=Engineering For People Design Brief |url=https://www.ewb-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/EcoSwell-Design-Brief-2020-A4.pdf. |website=EcoSwell}}</ref> Illegal mining and logging operations are responsible for a great deal of Peru's deforestation and environmental damage.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Damonte |first=Gerardo H. |date=2016 |title=The "Blind" State: Government Quest for Formalization and Conflict with Small-Scale Miners in the Peruvian Amazon: The "Blind" State |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12230 |journal=Antipode |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=956–976 |doi=10.1111/anti.12230}}</ref> The Peruvian government has not been able to enforce an environmentally conscious mining formalization plan to protect the Amazon forest in the [[Madre de Dios Province|Madre de Dios]] region. The 1980s were known in Peru as the "lost decade" due to a nationwide internal conflict and severe economic crisis almost destroying the country and resulting in the state losing control over several regions.<ref name=":1" /> Many areas in Peru, including Madre de Dios, had no state presence until the government initiated a movement to 'conquer and populate the Amazon,' with the hopes of minimizing illegal and informal mining operations that had expanded in the region and were polluting the Amazonian rivers and the destroying of its forests.<ref name=":1" />

Reforestation initiatives have expanded in the country since. In Peru, reforestation is essential to preserving the livelihoods of rural communities because much of the population relies on the forest in some way.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=VonZabern |first=Karl |date=2018 |title=From Protests to Policy: How the Institutionalization of Indigenous Movements Affects Environmental Policy Related to Resource Extraction in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia |url=https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/honors_theses/8p58pj16x |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301015518/https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/honors_theses/8p58pj16x |url-status=live |archive-date=1 March 2020 |journal=Carolina Digital Repository}}</ref> Deforestation also disproportionally affects indigenous communities in Peru, which is why reforestation efforts are essential for the protection of many communities' livelihoods.{{Cn|date=November 2024}}