Peru creates Environment Police Force

The Amazon rainforest covers almost a third of Peru and is highly prized by companies seeking to exploit the lax enforcement regime to harvest precious hard woods like mahogany. For many years, ecologists have voiced deep concern over the rapid depletion of Amazon biodiversity and say that, at the present rate of deforestation, the basin, home to an incredible array of flora and fauna (much yet to be discovered), could be harmed beyond repair in coming decades.