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By Diego Mauricio (Regional Network of Water and Environment)       PIURA CITY, Peru – The Ministry of environment recognized in 2008the economic importance of the Andean páramos for the population depending on this ecosystem. That entitty’s former Natural Resources manager Walter Huamani affirmed that “we recognize that [the páramos] historically do have an economic value and the communities located at the highlands ever used it and know of that value.”   “If they don’t know of bank accounts, that is another issue, but they know [the páramos] have a value, and they use it and they live from it. The ecosystems feed the people, whether native people or surrounding people,” he said.   According to the Chira-Piura Hydrographic Basin Autonomous Authority, there was in 2018 a total of 929,247inhabitants through the basin, that represented 56% of the Piura department’s population. As well, Piura highlands s had a population of 55,889 heads of cow cattle wwhich ...

Por Diego Mauricio (Red Regional de Agua y Ambiente)   CIUDAD DE PIURA – El Ministerio del Ambiente reconoció en 2008la importancia económica de los páramos andinos para las poblaciones que dependen de este ecosistema.   El entonces gerente  de Recursos Naturales de esa entidad, Wálter Huamaní, afirmó que "nosotros reconocemos que históricamente los [páramos]  sí tienen un valor económico y las comunidades que están en la altura siempre lo han usado y saben del valor”.   “Que no sepan de cuentas bancarias, esa es otra cosa, pero ellos saben que tienen valor, y lo usan y viven de eso. Los ecosistemas mantienen poblaciones, sean poblaciones propias o poblaciones aledañas…" , dijo.    Según la Autoridad Autónoma de Cuenca Hidrográfica Chira Piura, en 2008 existía un total de 929 mil 247 habitantes a través de la cuenca, que representaba el 56 % de la población departamental de Piura. Así También  la sierra de Piura contaba con una población ...

  SAPILLICA, Peru – Patrol ffarmerss in Pampa Verde Town, Sapillica District (Ayabaca Province), identified what seem to be petroglyphs or drawings carved on rock, according to the Journalist José encalada reported this Sunday to FACTORTIERRA, which has coordinated a related investigation in that same district as well as Tambogrande District (Piura Province). As a Pampa Verde’s patrol farmer stated to FACTORTIERRA this Monday, what they have identified up to today are five drawings carved on rock 1 mile around the town, especially beside Timbes River, and near water natural coppers that the locals know as “the lagoon.” FACTORTIERRA has sent the pictures to Lima-based archeologist Daniel Dávila, who specializes in Pre-Inca Age, and has investigated the existent petroglyphs in MalingasSector (Tambogrande District) between 2009 and 2011. Preliminarily, he has said they seem to be archaeological vestiges, but due to the photograph angle and the apparent damage status, ...

YAMANGO, Peru – The Educational Management Local Unit of Morropón’s representative school before the 10 th Piura’s Congress of environmental Education is located at a rural town called Faical. It is about 20028’s that has launched a fanpage and a YouTube channel named Escuela verde, planeta verde (Green School, Green Planet), which look for promoting an environmental culture, as well as habits of healthy feeding and hygiene. Thefanpage already adds more than 94K Like s while its YouTube channel is trying to summon the attention of its audience for having views, as FACTORTIERRA VERIFIED them. All is part of the Project Awaring new generations for caring the environment ,   executed by the school’s principal Janet Pizarro Huamán, parents, an students. The project includes the management of a school orchard for improving the feeding of students, a decorative garden, cleaning campaigns, and implementation of spaces and containers for recycling. Also, handicrafts are made f...

YAMANGO, Piura – La escuela representante de la Unidad de Gestión Educativa Local Morropón ante el X Congreso de Educación Ambiental de Piura se halla en una localidad rural llamada Faical. Se trata de la 20028, que ha lanzado una fanpage y un canal deYouTube denominados “Escuela verde, planeta verde”, mediante los que se busca promover una cultura ambiental, así como hábitos de alimentación saludable e higiene. La fanpage ya acumula más de 94 mil Me Gusta , mientras que su canal de YouTube está tratando de llamar la atención de su audiencia para conseguir reproducciones, según verificó FACTORTIERRA. Todo es parte del proyecto Concienciando nuevas generaciones para el cuidado del medio ambiente , que ejecutan la directora de la escuela, Janet PizarroHuamán, padres, madres y alumnado. El proyecto incluye el manejo de un huerto escolar para mejorar la alimentación de los y las estudiantes, un jardín ornamental, campañas de limpieza, e implementación de espacios y contenedores ...

CHALACO, Peru – Evelio Cobba Mendoza is the only teacher at 15356 School, in Las Mishcas Village, and helped by the educational community, he implemented an orchard with food which, as well as compliments breakfasts and lunchs brought by the  Qali Warma Programme, is inserted into other subjects like Communication, Maths, and Technology & environment. Parents fenced the space with bamboo cane and prepared the land while the school’s children made the grooves and cropped the vegetables. So, the students have learned, for example, there are direct-cropping plants and others those need to be transplanted. The theacher Evelio Cobba comes from La Florida, a district of San Miguel, Cajamarca Region.  His father, evergildo, loved to read. “He learned by himself,” he tells. “I remember he had two bold books of Botanics, and he taught me to crop,”  he points out so happy. “Today, I teach my students to crop and to eat healthy.” Vegetables as carrots, bee...

Tourism in Piura Region became an interesting issue for our English-speaker audience between April and June of this year. The analysis that Viajala.com did about this Peruvian territory, and quoted by CNN en Español, attracted muchly in Ecuador, then in Peru. It wonders us so much since the countries are mostly Spanish-speakers. Other dspecific destinations are Las Palmeras de Yaranche’s Coppers (Tambogrande) and Palo Blanco Community (Chulucanas), this last one specially in Peru. Again, the country is Spanish-speaker. Other stories that indirectly touch the tourism are the initiative of a Sullana-based radiostation to celebrate the Peru-Ecuador Peace Agreement , preferred in Ecuador, and the white cacao of Palo Blanco (Chulucanas) , preferred in Japan. The combination of art and health by using the theatre to improve the children’s feeding was tagged from Israel, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The natural disasters also took a place for the audience in two sto...

TAMBOGRANDE, Piura - El ganado caprino es el más numeroso en la costa del departamento, de acuerdo con la estadística oficial, pero es uno de los que tiene un desarrollo relativo a pesar de proporcionar dos recursos que pueden activar la economía local en una mejor dirección: la leche y el guano (o excremento). Con esta premisa, el equipo de la serie documental #EstoEsTambogrande regresó al sector Tejedores, y específicamente a los caseríos Miraflores para averiguar cómo la gente local está comenzando una pequeña industria con el queso, el que ya está abriéndose mercado en la ciudad de Tambogrande, y el guano, que aún requiere cierto desarrollo para incorporarse al sector de los abonos orgánicos. Además, el entorno accidentado ofrece otra posibilidad para el turismo ecológico y el deporte de aventura, a través de campamentos, excursiones o hasta la escalada con dificultad de baja a mediana en el cerro Licamanche. Habría que llegar hasta aquí para comprobarlo. Puedes ver el episo...

SULLANA, Peru - The initiatives to face the climate change in Piura Region from the government and the citizenship got your interest during January, February, and March of 2019 from our contents offer, as well as the spaces we manage for protecting the environment, and how that conscience allow us to improve life conditions of the people and even launching green businesses. In fact, the two main stories you preferred, according to the survey we did on our Twitter account, were " Anti-Disaster re-Engineering ", that tells how the authorities of Piura Region are planning to manage Piura Basin in order to avoid damages due to the excess or the lack of water, and " Riding For Love To The Planet ", that explains why the Chulucanas, Peru-based bodybuilder Ronald Benites is using a bicycle for tripping around the regional territory and educating the people on the need to conserve the environment". Other stories you liked were " Green, Amber, And Brown ...