Hay Festival Arequipa 2022 – Nature & Environment

Listening to the Amazon to learn, and flying over it to make it heard. Both Nelly Luna and Iñigo Maneiro know the Amazon region well, and bring to us stories that illustrate the problems of natural resource extraction and not paying due attention to its inhabitants. In his article Sobrevuelo en la Amazonía: el rastro de los depredadores, Luna talks about how illegal mining has made part of the region into a tree cemetery. Maneiro has lived with the Awajún people and has learned about their relationship with birds, and has given us a view of their ancestral worldview in her book Saber escuchar el canto. Relaciones entre aves y humanos en el pueblo awajún.

From the ecohydrology of the Andes and the Amazon, Fabian Drenkhan and Jhan Carlo Espinoza are direct witnesses of the climate change that our planet is suffering from. The two experts will talk to Santiago Rojas, Northern Regional Manager and Representative of CAF Peru, about a reality that is becoming ever more urgent and dangerous. Climate change is not a future possibility, it is a truth that is already here.

LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available

John Vaillant (USA/Canada) won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction for Fire Weather, a book about the terrible forest fire that burned Fort McMurray, the centre of the Canadian oil industry. In this brilliant work, Vaillant argues that it was not just a fire, but a warning that we need to prepare for an ever hotter and more inflammable world. In conversation with Jhan Carlo Espinoza, research director at IRD and hydroclimatologist at the Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE) in Grenoble, France.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available