d) SEPAHUA, a ramshackle town on the edge of Peru’s Amazon Jungle, Nestles in a pocket on the map where a river of the same name flows into the Urubamba.
e) That pocket donates a tiny patch of legally loggable land sandwiched between four natural reserves, all rich in mahogany and accessible from the town. “Boundaries are on maps,” says a local logger, “maps are only in Lima.” the capital.
c) In 2001 the government, egged on by WWF, a green group, tried to regulate logging in the relatively small part of the Peruvian Amazon where this is allowed.
b) It abolished the previous system of Annual contracts.
a) Instead, it auctioned 40-year concessions to areas ruled off on a map, with the right to log 5% of the area each year. The aim was to encourage strict management plans and sustainable extraction.
