A few days left to celebrate its 43 anniversary, Peru's National Pacaya Samiria Reserve has been recognized as one of the '10 Best Reader's Choice' in the Wildlife category.

Peru's economy will be hit by a "worrisome" drop in the price of copper but should still expand by more than 4 percent this year, Finance Minister Alonso Segura said.

The official growth target for 2015 is 4.8 percent, double last year's estimated expansion of 2.4 percent.

Peru's Minister of Energy and Mines, Eleodoro Mayorga, said Peru can become South Pacific's largest petrochemical producer if dialogue is established with the private sector, producers and drivers in order to complete petrochemical stages successfully. 

Peru's total installed power generation capacity went from 6,016 Mw to 11,284 Mw between 2004 and 2014, which represents a 88% increase, with an average annual rate of 6.5% for this period, informed the General Directorate of Electricity of the Ministry of Energy and Mines. 

The national electricity consumption, including the energy consumed by users and that generated for own use, increased one percent in 2014 over the previous year, informed the General Directorate of Electricity of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM). 

One person was killed and at least eight were injured in protests in a Peruvian jungle town against natural gas exploration by Argentine energy company Pluspetrol, the government said on Wednesday. 

The newest and latest bar concepts in districts such as Miraflores and Barranco make for great ambiances, but sometimes you just have to go old school and relax with a res.

For a friend's birthday recently, we decided to head to Antigua Taberna Queirolo bar, one of Lima's oldest and culturally significantbodegas. The building, which hails from the 1870s and has been restored, is still lined with old wood and plastered with faded black-and-white photos that depict Lima from years long gone.

Peru's Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), Magali Silva, disclosed the Peruvian government through her ministry will invest S/.11 million (over US$3.5 million) thru July 2016 in projects that will promote tourism and foreign trade in Madre de Dios. 

Giving back is in Cindy Crawford's blood-as a kid, she lost her brother to leukemia and has been volunteering in one way or another ever since. Her most recent effort has been captured in a moving documentary,Hospital in the Sky, which premiered in New York City last week. In it, the Omega ambassador visits Peru with leading global NGO Orbis to raise awareness of and help eliminate avoidable blindness. 

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ADI (Animal Defenders International) are a successful group who have been busy persuading the Peruvian 2012 laws on circus animals to come into effect, using a mission title, Operation Spirit of Freedom. In their temporary rescue centre outside Lima, Pepe is a spider monkey, probably Ateles chamek. He was released following 8 years of imprisonment, chained in a circus. Along with 21 lions and an equal number of other species of monkeys , a coati mundi, a baboon and several horses, vets try and rehabilitate their patients before relocating them to a suitable permanent home such as the Colorado sanctuary to which the lions will make their way. The spider monkey, very endangered like all eight of his genus, proved a great pet, but needed a mate to secure a viable tiny colony for his release.

YOUTUBE: Unidentifed flying object recorded in Lima

An unidentified flying object was spotted and recorded in video footage today in Miraflores, after a camera man noticed a purple object floating in the distance.

A UFO or "objetos voladores no identificados" (OVNI) has captured the attention of thousand of Peruvians today, after Congressman Renzo Reggiardo and his film crew captured footage of a purple floating object in the Lima sky.

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