Leslie Moreno Custodio

Photographer
   
Beyond the mountains (on going)
Location: Peru
Nationality: Peruvian
Biography: Leslie is a photographer and reporter based in Peru. Her work explores topics from an ethnographic and a documentary perspective. She focuses on stories related to social justice, environment and identity. She is a graduated communicator with a... MORE
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Beyond the mountains (on going)
Copyright Leslie Moreno Custodio 2024
Updated Jan 2023
The struggle of indigenous communities against climate change

A series of disturbances linked to climate change affects many local ecosystems in the peruvian altiplano, which is a high plateau area at 4,000 metres above sea level. Climate change, the reduction of available water supply, the increase of daytime temperature and the lack of humidity make frosts -an atmospheric phenomenon that reduces the temperature below zero- feel stronger at night.

Indigenous communities that live here have the feeling that it’s getting worse. It make them live in uncertainty. Approximately 600 thousand peruvians live in areas that the government classifies at high or very high risk due to the occurrence of these frosts. The traditions of most of them might be affected because of the loss of their principal livelihoods (production and care of domestic South American camelids).

Social scientists warn that abandonment of land carries cultural risks. Is climate more powerful than man in the Andes?

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Regional Program for Energy Security and Climate Change in Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (EKLA-KAS).
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