Approximately two-thirds of Peru is covered by forests. Only Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia have more standing tropical forest than Peru, which also has one of the highest rates of biodiversity in the world. Peru’s National Forest Heritage Map identifies a total of 73,294,958 hectares of forests: 53,432,618 hectares of lowland forest; 15,736,030 hectares of montane forest; 3,235,012 hectares of dry forests; and approximately 1 percent of other forest types. In the Amazon Region, where primary forest (lowland and montane forest) is prevalent, a loss of up to 7.9 million hectares was recorded between 2000-2009 (MINAM, 2011a). During the 2005-2010 period, according to the Global Forest Assessment Report, Peru had a low 0.22 percent national deforestation rate (...