The tropical forest covers nearly half of Peru’s territory and is the third most vast forest in the world,
after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Since 1983, part of its area is protected and preserved within a National Park, and has been recognized
as a UNESCO cultural and natural heritage of humanity since 1990.
The Saint-Martin province, which is located in northern Peru in the Amazonian Andes, is made up of 97% of primary forests.
Yet, this region suffers from a high deforestation rate due to demographic pressure and road infrastructure related to human activity and the timber trade, in particular.