Coexistence or threat?

“Selective logging has co-existed with Brazil nut production for a long time. But it is becoming more intense,” says Miguel Zamalloa, president of one of the local harvesters’ organizations, Recolectores Orgánicos de la Nuez Amazónica de Perú. “We need information about what is happening now, and what we can do for the future.” This tree has been selected to be felled as it has a top cut and bottom cut making a notch, called an undercut. The undercut acts as a hinge, when performing the backcut, to make sure the tree falls where the undercut was made, Unamat forest, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR

For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)

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