FACTORTIERRA

    Photographs provided by Dandy Ruíz Estrada, distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   MARCAVELICA, Peru – Perhaps the most difference between an artist and somebody who’s not in it lays over his skill to see the beauty, or the possibility to make it up, right there where we see something usual or insignificant. That was why Dandy Ruíz Estrada , a.k.a. El Dandy, made as much as possible for the wall of a school turned a canvas of a collective creation.   “We’re losing the identity,” stresses the 40-year-old visual artist, Mallaritos-native, a town forming now one urban zone with Marcavelica, both part of Sullana Metro Area, the largest of Chira Valley .   At Andrés avelino Cáceres School, also known as Mallaritos, El Dandy and students of the three first high-school grades took over than 120 feet of wall –almost the front yard of 4 average houses in Sullana—and they started to represent frames of the local identity and ecology , as well as the histor...

One year later, FACTORTIERRA undisclosed its internal reports about the popular consultation of Piura Andes in September 2007, and it found some details have not solved yet.   By Liliana Alzamora Flores & Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   AYABACA, Peru – What difficult is logging on the Internet at this place! There are long lines! Some journalists booked the PC’s for hours.   Saturday, September 15th, 2007 – There was a press conference at 19:00 local time, in Casa del Campesino. The briefing was directed by Mario tabra who presented some slides, Farmers Patrol’s leader Magdiel Carrión, the attorney quique Rodríguez . They answered the questions much objective proving to be well informed.   They denounced that Peru’s Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo distorted the information. Attorney Rodríguez reported that Alejandro Eguren Anselmi, brother of Piura and Tumbes Archbishop, were not already a Minera Majaz’s manager, but he has bought over than 50% of shares in ot...

A government office and a radio station joined to protect a natural area.   SULLANA, peru – A trendy cumbia song sounds aloud in the radio receivers of the second largest city in the department. Suddenly, the usual commercials, but one that, not using the hackney back music and only with birds sound effects, warns us on the existentce of el Angolo Hunting.   It wasn’t a spot else in the break of every half-hour but the alliance to promote a protected natural area in Sullana Province , and the only one of its kind across Piura Department . Through an agreement signed by Peru’s National service of Protected Natural Areas (SERNANP, as in Spanish) and Radio Nuevo Norte LLP (RNN), the audience had an advertisement pack explaining what a protected natural area is, and what El Angolo is   “The SERNANP gives us the contents  and we produce the ads,” RNN’s manager Jose Carlos Carrasco Flores explained us.   Reservation of Biosphere El Angolo Hunting...

Its strategic location at the Eastern Pacific turns it into a peculiar shelter.  Photographs by Giuseppe Aguinaga . PAITA, Peru - It seems to be a stone-&-sand berg from La Islilla Beach, a huge natural breakwater keeping a fishers cove on the southwestern side of La Silla de Paita (The Paita's Chair, approximately 350 meters or 1150 feet altitude). However, it is a natural milestone of two big marine ecosystems for the science. Foca Island is far the South-American continent just 800 meters or half a mile to 1 kilometer or 0,6 miles of water, and according to the book Piura, Áreas prioritarias para la conservación de la biodiversidad (Piura - Priority Areas For Conserving the Biodiversity), edited by Nature and Culture International (NCI) in 2014,  is an extension of the Peruvian desert , an arid land reaching to penetrate into Chile toward the south, and the half of Tumbes Region at the north. It is about 92 hectares or 227 acres, what allow it to con...