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The Threat of Road Expansion in the Peruvian Amazon The threat of road expansion in the Peruvian Amazon G EOFFREY R. GALLICE,GUSTAVO L ARREA-GALLEGOS and I AN V ÁZQUEZ-ROWE Abstract The construction of roads and other large-scale juxtaposition of the Andes with lowland Amazonia where infrastructure projects, and the secondary impacts they pre- plant communities, including those at the treeline, are not cipitate, are among the key drivers of change in tropical for- prevented by human activity from colonizing areas of great- ests. The proposed expansion of a road in the buffer zones of er altitude in response to climate change (e.g. Rehm & Peru’s Manu National Park and Amarakaeri Communal Feeley, ), and therefore its importance to the mainten- Reserve, in the country’s Amazon region, threatens bio- ance of biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the diversity and indigenous communities in one of the world’s Andes–Amazon region cannot be overstated. most species-rich and environmentally sensitive rainforest Dominated by the Andes to the west and south, which areas. In particular, road expansion is likely to result in un- rise to . , m above the Manu River floodplain in the controlled colonization, deforestation, and the illicit extrac- Amazonian lowlands, Manu’s geography is also characte- tion of timber and other natural resources, as well as an rized by its remoteness and, until recently, its inaccessibility. increase in social conflict between resource extractors and With its wide elevational gradient, large area, isolation, and indigenous communities. Furthermore, the development wilderness character, the Park is not only highly biodiverse of infrastructure in the Manu region puts at risk Peru’s but is also home to large and wide-ranging vertebrate spe- international commitments regarding climate change by cies that are rare or declining elsewhere in Amazonia. For promoting, rather than avoiding, forest loss. A number of example, the protection of Manu’s vast floodplain was a viable alternatives to further road expansion are available key factor in the stabilization of the region’s population of to achieve economic development and improved mobility the Endangered giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis after dec- in Manu, including agricultural intensification, improved ades of overhunting along the lower Manu River land-use planning, and a less invasive transportation infra- (Groenendijk et al., ). The Park and its surrounding for- structure. Given the growth in the global road network ex- ests also contain other abundant top predators, including as pected in the coming decades, as well as the common factors many as , jaguars Panthera onca (Tobler et al., ). underlying the expansion of such infrastructure across Manu National Park spans Peru’s Cusco and Madre de tropical, developing countries, the issues surrounding road Dios Departments, and forms the core area of a larger expansion in Manu and the compromise solutions that we UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site. propose are broadly applicable to efforts to achieve sustain- Known in Peru as an Intangible Zone, only a few scattered able development in other remote, tropical regions. Matsigenka, Yora and Quechua indigenous communities and several small groups of voluntarily isolated Keywords Amazon, biodiversity, deforestation, Manu Mashco-Piro (fewer than several thousand people in total) National Park, Peru, roads, sustainable development reside within this . million ha core area (Shepard et al., ). The south-eastern edge of the Park is bordered by a Cultural Zone, which is intended to serve as a protective Introduction buffer, and where colonization, development and limited re- source extraction are allowed (and occur). The Park’s other ocated at the biogeographical crossroads of the western borders are shared with large expanses of sparsely populated LAmazon and Andes ecosystems, Manu National Park is rainforest and several other protected areas, including Alto the gem in Peru’s protected area network. It is the only park Purus National Park to the north-east and the Amarakaeri in South America that protects the entire watershed of a Communal Reserve to the south-east (Fig. ). major Amazonian tributary, encompassing a range of habi- Historically, the Manu region’s isolation has kept it rela- tats from high Andean grasslands to lowland rainforests. tively guarded from the effects of uncontrolled resource ex- Manu is also the only large remaining tract of land at the traction and colonization that have devastated rainforests and biological and cultural diversity in other parts of Amazonia (e.g. Laurance et al., ). The construction of GEOFFREY R. GALLICE (Corresponding author) McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, the so-called Manu Road, however, which began in the Powell Hall on Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA s and currently traverses the buffer zones of both E-mail [email protected] Manu National Park and the Amarakaeri Communal GUSTAVO LARREA-GALLEGOS and IAN VÁZQUEZ-ROWE Peruvian Life Cycle Reserve, has increased access to the region (Fig. ). The Assessment Network, Department of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru population of Andean migrants along the road, in particu- Received January . Revision requested February . lar, has increased, resulting in increased pressure on the re- Accepted March . First published online June . gion’s natural resources. A proposed expansion of the road Oryx, 2019, 53(2), 284–292 © 2017 Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605317000412 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 24 Sep 2021 at 21:40:41, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605317000412 Road expansion in the Peruvian Amazon 285 FIG. 1 The Manu Road, and the route of its proposed expansion to connect Nuevo Eden with Boca Manu and Boca Colorado in Peru’s Madre de Dios Department. aims to connect the end of the existing road with the town of residents while also preserving the globally important bio- Boca Manu, at the mouth of the Manu River and the en- logical and cultural capital of the Manu region. trance to the core area of Manu National Park; the project would also connect Boca Manu with the illegal gold mining hub of Boca Colorado to the south-east (Fig. ). A brief history of the Manu Road Construction of the first section of the Nuevo Eden–Boca – Manu Boca Colorado road, from Nuevo Eden to Boca Early history Manu, has proceeded rapidly and, as a variety of observers have pointed out, illegally, as the project has lacked the en- Transit along the path of the Manu Road began at least as vironmental impact assessment and prior consultation of early as the height of the Incan empire, in the late th cen- local indigenous residents that are required by Peruvian law. tury. Trade was facilitated by the construction of a road from If the road network envisioned for the Manu region is the capital city of Cusco, in the high Andes, east to the settle- completed, resource extractors and probably an influx of ment of Paucartambo and then onwards, down the eastern new colonists will gain access to immense areas of currently Andean slopes of the Kosñipata Valley to the outpost of pristine rainforest, and deforestation, logging, mining and Pillcopata, at the edge of the Incan domain in the other illicit activity will continue to erode the ecological Amazonian lowlands. In , nearly centuries after the and cultural integrity of the region’s mosaic of protected Spanish conquest, a bridge was erected across the Mapacho areas, as has happened following new road construction River in Paucartambo to consolidate colonial access to the elsewhere in Amazonia (e.g. Laurance et al., ). rainforest resources coming from Pillcopata (Ramos Our goals here are threefold. Firstly, we discuss the his- Carpio, ). Thus, the first major effects of the construc- tory of the Manu Road, to place the contemporary debate tion of road infrastructure along the route appeared about current plans for expansion in the appropriate histor- hundreds of years ago, as people gradually populated the ical context. Secondly, we provide an overview of the various area surrounding the road and farmed the adjacent country- complex direct and indirect social and environmental risks side, especially in and around what became the Andean city of expansion, which is intended to provide the project’s di- of Paucartambo. verse stakeholders with the information necessary to engage Although the Inca and later the Spanish maintained some in an informed debate about, and accurately assess, the vari- trade in rainforest goods via Pillcopata, the presence of fierce- ous potential costs and benefits of road development. ly resistant tribes further east mostly prevented the incursion Thirdly, we argue that these costs greatly outweigh the ben- of outsiders. The onset of so-called rubber fever (c. – efits of road expansion, and outline a potential compromise ), however, changed the situation in the Peruvian solution that acknowledges the needs and demands of local Amazon rapidly, drawing hundreds of entrepreneurial rubber Oryx, 2019, 53(2), 284–292 © 2017 Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605317000412 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.126, on 24 Sep 2021 at 21:40:41, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605317000412 286 G. R. Gallice et al. barons and their workforces (Shepard et al., ). Among The creation of Manu National Park the most influential of the Peruvian barons was Carlos Fitzcarrald, who gained notoriety after having a European In response to the threats of uncontrolled resource extrac- steamship dismantled and portaged through . km of re- tion, in the Peruvian government declared the entire mote rainforest to the previously unexplored Manu River Manu watershed a National Reserve, prohibiting hunting watershed (Reyna, ).
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