Peru : Indicators

Currently the proposed National Forest and Wildlife Policy is in the process of consultation and approval. This is intended to promote forest sector development by ensuring sustainable production of goods and services from forests and other wild ecosystems.
Principally due to the regrettable events in Bagua (where there was a violent confrontation between indigenous peoples and the police in 2009), participative processes have been prioritised for the formulation of the Forest Law. Read more...

The current law is the Forests and Wildlife Law No. 27308 adopted in 2000.

In June 2008, Legislative Decree No. 1090 was approved, but it was repealed in June 2009. Currently, there is a proposal for a Forest and Wildlife Law; it has been drawn up in a participatory way since September 2009 under the review of the commission of agriculture in the Congress.
http://www2.congreso.gob.pe/Sicr/TraDocEstProc/CLProLey2006.nsf

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The Forest Law portal of the General Forest and Wildlife Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture has organized the legal standards by theme, chronological order, and region, and includes a link to the main repealed laws and regulations. While the standards are available there is no search mechanism to access the rules organized in chronological order.
When the 2009 Report Card was produced this information was not available; the Report Card contributed to the restitution of the web page. Read more...

The regulations from other sectors that affect the forest are available, taking into consideration that mining, hydrocarbons, agricultural exports and biofuels policies are a priority for the government.
The 2009 Report Card contributed to the increase in information held on web pages. Read more...

Yes, Peru has signed several international agreements such as CITES, UNFCCC, CBD, ITTO, etc. Read more...

Yes, according to "Analysis of the legal framework for forest management by smallholders and communities in the Peruvian Amazon" by the ForLive Project, outside the laws and official regulations for the use of timber and non-timber forest products, communities have their own rules or agreements, which vary slightly depending on the ethnic group to which the community belongs.
In general, the official law predominates; there are few efforts to merge the rules. An additional example was the Administrative Decree No 232-2006-INRENA. In spite of being one of few laws that have merged together the rules, the impact that it had when adopted by the indigenous organisations was considerable. Read more...