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Several palm oil and cacao companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) between 2012 and 2021 in the country’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali, shows a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The investigation “Carving up the Amazon” claims that deforestation […]

Rich in resources, Peru's Amazon is being deforested at an accelerated rate, losing more than 26,000 square kilometers of forest since 2001.

Indigenous communities condemned Lisa Kenny’s visit, claiming company is operating on illegally deforested land

The palm oil sector has become one of the main engines of economic and social development for Ucayali and the Peruvian jungle

INTERVIEW: Ocho Sur explains the growth of the oil palm company, driven by the higher productivity of the oil palms and the favorable international context

Wbeimar Cetina says he remembers with chilling clarity the 14 months he spent in jail in Arauca, Colombia. Because he couldn’t have visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he replayed in his mind the last moments he lived with his family. He also dwelled on Feb. 10, 2020, when a group of armed police officers […]

An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru Indigenous Shipibo leaders in Peru’s Ucayali region say they live under the threat of attacks from suspected land traffickers who continue to invade their territory. The Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya says these invasions have been exacerbated by the advancement of oil palm plantations in the Amazonian district of Nueva Requena. In August 2020, an outside group was caught cutting down trees that belong to the commun...