Peru News
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Dr. Carlos Yaipen Llanos of ORCA in Peru informed Hardy Jones of Blue Voice that acoustical trauma is the cause of the Mass Mortality Event (MME) that killed an estimated one thousand dolphins along the coast of northern Peru in March 2012.
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As the number of dead animals along the northern shores of Peru climbs higher everyday, the latest deaths of hundreds of pelicans add to the mystery of the more than a thousand dead dolphins since the beginning of the year in the same area.
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Differing criteria on the application of Interim Measures as a provisional approach for the management of pelagic fisheries in the Eastern Pacific pending the ratification of an International Convention may risk the survival of valuable fish stocks.
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Santiago -
A lowly fish often used for canning or to make fish-meal and fish-oil to feed higher priced farmed species is causing a serious rift between Peru and Chile, two of the world’s leading capture fisheries countries.
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Lima -
Peruvian surgeons are set to remove a foetus formed inside a three-year-old Peruvian boy. Isbac Pacunda has a rare condition in which a growing foetus "absorbs" its sibling which develops into what doctors call a "parasitic twin."
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Ica -
An earthquake 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale struck south-central Peru early this morning leaving nearly 70 people injured in the city of Ica.
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A new discovery in Peru suggests early inhabitants ate corn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
An unearthing of ancient corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels were unearthed and date back approximately 6,700 to 3,000 years ago.
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Joran Van Der Sloot’s murder trial in Peru will now take place on Wednesday. That is when Van Der Sloot will finally give his plea.
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Huarmey -
According to the mayor of a Pacific coastal town in Peru, the local water is turning the men into homosexuals due to its high content of strontium.
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Lima -
The Caral-Supe culture of Peru, the oldest civilization in the Americas, developed almost simultaneously with those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India and about 1500 years before the Mesoamerican civilizations.
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Solar power comes to Peru's floating communities
Scientists in Peru hunt the cause of the mysterious deaths of hundreds of pelicans on the coast in the north of the country.
Scientists blame rise in sea temperatures for death of thousands of pelicans in Peru.
Doubts over Peru's strategy against Shining Path rebels
Fighting childhood tuberculosis in Peru
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