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A rural school highlights in science, looks for stopping deforestation.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs Courttesy Luis Cevallos Jiménez .   This place is 3½ hours from Piura City going up to the east.   CANCHAQUÉ, Peru – Maybe, it’s the last primal dry forest patch in Buitré Mount. Teacher Luis Cevallos Jiménez thinks it’s about 74 acres. According to Soc’cha Alta elders, it was larger, still. Among chamelicos, guayacans, and hualtacos, it was detected anteaters, armadillos, deers , ocelots, peccaries, Barnett's  lanceheads, and blacktail cribos. Soc’cha Alta is a village of Canchaqué District , Huancabamba Province , extending on a slope going from 2756 to2887 feet altitude. It’s part of Bigoté Sub-Basin, a Piura River ’s tributary, and according to Mr Cevallos, it should be declared a protected area once it’s studied scientifically. The also principal of 15458 elementary school, where other two colleagues work and 33 children stu...

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...