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CANCHAQUÉ, Peru – Nicolás Rodríguez Julca dreams to be an agricultural engineer. He’s just 9 years old, studies in 5th grade Elementary at 14498 San Francisco School, and he’s the Environmental Chief. Adding the care of the place where he lives, one of his tasks is to promote healthy food habits among his classmates.   Currently, the school has stimulated the families to own orchards at their houses, so having more variety in food they consume.   Precisely, Nicolas’ job consists to visit these houses every week, to register the orchards status in a file: if the soil is already prepared, if it’s already planted, irrigated, removed the bad weed, or if it’s the harvest time. Based upon these results, Nicolás can give some recommendations.   Nicolás’ teacher Haydeé Choque sulco supervises the work, opines the boy is a leader along, as well as the orchard improves the social-environmental skills of the students. The vegetables cropped at the school and the hom...

While the Peruvian hydraulics celebrated a triumph, she lost a great part of her life.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs by Franco Alburqueque .   LANCONÉS, Peru – Benefit for farmers or a dictatorship’s megalomania?Over 800 million cubic meters  --4/5 parts of its capability— Poechos Reservoir begins the water transference from Chira River to Piura River .   Not all people share the joy. Turning 74 years, Mariana Távara settles down far her home, now submerged under all that liquitd amount. On behalf of the departmen’s agricultural expansion, she must brand a new life next to her family in a town with almost all the comfort, but her heart. “The history of Lanconés finished with Poechos Dam,” she states 35 years later.   Walking among rim orchards When Sullana Province just crowled 8 months old, Mariana born in Lanconés, a village located at Chira River’s rim near Ecuador. It was mid-July. “It was a little town with wood houses...

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...

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 ...