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PERU - DECEMBER 2014: Illegal mine near the Interoceanic Highway between 90 and 115 km from Puerto Maldonado towards the mountains. Most miners work at the buffer zone of the Tambopata where concessions for reforestation were provided by the government. Now the owners of these concessions charge admission to their lands to mining and in return they can work the mines. The Interoceanic Highway is an international, transcontinental highway in Peru and Brazil to connect the two countries. Now completed, it has created a connected highway from the Peruvian ports of San Juan de Marcona to Brazilian ports and cities throughout the City of Rio Branco ZPE (Special Export Zone). The Highway is to facilitate Brazil´s access to the Pacific coast (and the markets of Asia) and in the same way the transfer of Asian products to the Atlantic coast (markets in the United States, Europe and Brazil). This new road also allows the introduction of Peruvian products to the Brazilian market. The share of Peru consisted of the construction of 2603 km of road divided into 3 sections.
PERU - DECEMBER 2014: illegal mine in Tambopata Natural Reserve. After the theft of precious materials gold than they were before primary forest is devastated, leaving burned logs and contaminated by mercury holes. The Interoceanic Highway is an international, transcontinental highway in Peru and Brazil to connect the two countries. Now completed, it has created a connected highway from the Peruvian ports of San Juan de Marcona to Brazilian ports and cities throughout the City of Rio Branco ZPE (Special Export Zone). The Highway is to facilitate Brazil´s access to the Pacific coast (and the markets of Asia) and in the same way the transfer of Asian products to the Atlantic coast (markets in the United States, Europe and Brazil). This new road also allows the introduction of Peruvian products to the Brazilian market. The share of Peru consisted of the construction of 2603 km of road divided into 3 sections. The Interoceanic Highway is the first road that crosses South America from East to West; from the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil to the Pacific Ocean in Peru, providing Brazil a faster way to transport its vast natural resources to the Asian market. During the 1970´s, Brazil also tried to cross the continent with the TransAmazonian Highway. The project failed and migrant families, that were building the road, got stuck in the middle of nowhere. The construction of both Highways has a severe impact on the fragile rainforest environment, such as deforestation, illegal hunting and fishing, massive crops for monocultures and pasture lands, illegal mining, pollution, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity. It is also affecting the local populations, introducing the drug and arms trafficking into the region, slaving underemployment and violence, and also damaging the life of ancestral indigenous communities.
Asentamiento Formosa, Tocantins State, Brazil - April 2015: Manuel (42) emigrated across the TransAmazonian Highway with his family as a child. All his life he have been working on farms of large landowners in conditions of modern slavery in remote areas of the Amazon forest. When he was finally freed by the special police forces which fight against slave labor, he got some compensation for all the unpaid work he did for years. With this money he bought a piece of land to live. However, a recent plan to build a hydroelectric power plant in the region where he lives is putting his land at flooding risk and he will be evacuated soon, losing everything he got in his life. The Interoceanic Highway is the first road that crosses South America from East to West; from the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil to the Pacific Ocean in Peru, providing Brazil a faster way to transport its vast natural resources to the Asian market. During the 1970´s, Brazil also tried to cross the continent with the TransAmazonian Highway. The project failed and migrant families, that were building the road, got stuck in the middle of nowhere. The construction of both Highways has a severe impact on the fragile rainforest environment, such as deforestation, illegal hunting and fishing, massive crops for monocultures and pasture lands, illegal mining, pollution, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity. It is also affecting the local populations, introducing the drug and arms trafficking into the region, slaving underemployment and violence, and also damaging the life of ancestral indigenous communities.
Tocantins State, Brazil - February 2012: Cows under a storm in one of the hundreds farms located alongside the TransAmazonian Highway. The Amazon rainforest is being deforested to create farms. Additionally, while Brazil is becoming an agricultural superpower, posicitioning itself as the world first beef meat producer, and the numbers of farms grows unstoppably, thousands of peasants remain without land. The Interoceanic Highway is the first road that crosses South America from East to West; from the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil to the Pacific Ocean in Peru, providing Brazil a faster way to transport its vast natural resources to the Asian market. During the 1970´s, Brazil also tried to cross the continent with the TransAmazonian Highway. The project failed and migrant families, that were building the road, got stuck in the middle of nowhere. The construction of both Highways has a severe impact on the fragile rainforest environment, such as deforestation, illegal hunting and fishing, massive crops for monocultures and pasture lands, illegal mining, pollution, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity. It is also affecting the local populations, introducing the drug and arms trafficking into the region, slaving underemployment and violence, and also damaging the life of ancestral indigenous communities.

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