Actividades petroleras en la Amazonía: ¿Nueva amenaza para las poblaciones de tapir?

Pedro Mayor; Antoni Rosell; Mar Cartró-Sabaté; Martí Orta-Martínez

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Vol. 23 No. 32 (2014)

Oil drilling in the Amazon: A new threat to tapir populations?

Pedro Mayor^▸^▾
Antoni Rosell^▸^▾
Mar Cartró-Sabaté^▸^▾
Martí Orta-Martínez^▸^▾

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Submitted: 25 May 2025
Published: 2014-06-01

Abstract

In the Peruvian Amazon, in 2009, oil fields covered 68% of Indigenous territories (42,548 km2), 83% (34,884 km2) of proposed territorial reserves for Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, and 17% of the 153,539 km2 of protected areas. Only 10% of the Peruvian Amazon is excluded from oil and gas extractive activities (Finer & Orta-Martínez, 2010). Furthermore, the Peruvian government continues to heavily promote oil development in a process that Finer & Orta-Martínez (2010) define as the second oil exploration boom.

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Mayor, P., Rosell, A., Cartró-Sabaté, M., & Orta-Martínez, M. (2014). Oil drilling in the Amazon: A new threat to tapir populations?. Tapir Conservation, 23(32), 26-29. http://www.tapirconservation.org/index.php/tc/article/view/26

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[1] Azetsu-Scott, K., Yeats, P., Wohlgeschaffen, G., Dalzien, J., Niven, S. & Lee, K. (2007). Precipitation of heavy metals in produced water: influence on contaminant trans-port and toxicity. Marine environmental research 63: 146–67.

[2] DIGESA (2006). Evaluación de resultados del monitoreo del río Corrientes y toma de muestras biológicas, en la intervención realizada del 29 de junio al 15 de julio del 2005 Informe Nº-2006/DEPA-APRHI/DIGESA Dirección General de Salud Ambiental, Ministerio de Salud.

[3] Emmon, L. & Stark, N. (1979). Elemental composition of a natural mineral lick in Amazonia. Biotropica 11:311313.

[4] Fakhru’l-Razi, A., Pendashteh, A., Abdullah, L.C., Biak, D.R.A., Madaeni, S.S. & Abidin, Z.Z. (2009). Review of technologies for oil and gas produced water treatment, Journal of Hazardous Materials 170(2–3): 530-551.

[5] Finer, M. & Orta-Martínez, M. (2010). A second hydrocarbon boom threatens the Peruvian Amazon: trends, projections, and policy implications. Environmental Research Letters 5(1):014012.

[6] Guo, W., He, M.C., Yang, Z.F., Zhang, H.Y., Lin, C.Y. & Tian, Z.J. (2012). The distribution, sources and toxicity risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and n-alkanes in riverine and estuarine core sediments from the Daliao River watershed. Environmental Earth Sciences 68: 2015–2024.

[7] IIAP (1985). Evaluación del contenido de metales pesados en tejidos de peces de consumo humano.

[8] IARC (1989). Occupational Exposures in Petroleum Refineries. Crude Oil and Major Petroleum Fuels., in Monographs Volume 45. IARC and WHO, Lyon, France.

[9] IARC (2012). Arsenic, metals, fibres and dusts, in Monographs. Vol. 100C, IARC and WHO, Lyon, France. Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú (1998). Evaluación ambiental Territorial de las Cuencas de los ríos TigrePastaza, 65. Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú, Lima, Perú.

[10] Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú (2013). Anuario estadístico de hidrocarburos 2012. Ministerio de Energía y Minas del Perú, Lima, Perú.

[11] Orta-Martinez, M., Napolitano, D.A., MacLennan, G.J., et al. (2007). Impacts of petroleum activities for the Achuar people of the Peruvian Amazon: summary of existing evidence and research gaps. Environ Res Lett 45006.

[12] Orta-Martínez, M. & Finer, M. (2010). Oil frontiers and indigenous resistance in the Peruvian Amazon. Ecol Econ 70: 207–218.

[13] OSINERG (2004). Informe Lotes 1-AB y 8. Respuesta al Oficio Nº0075-2004-JDC/CR del Congreso de la República.