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The territory belonging the Indigenous Kakataibo community of Puerto Nuevo comprises some 680 square kilometers (263 square miles) of rainforest between the regions of Huánuco and Ucayali in central Peru. Or, more accurately, it once did. Satellite data from Global Forest Watch show the territory was relatively unscathed until 2013 when deforestation surged; by 2021 the […]
Illegal coca cultivation in Peru is migrating from the Andean foothills to the Amazonian lowlands. Since 2020, an estimated 20 leaders have been killed in the rainforest.
Drug traffickers and coca farmers have targeted more territory in Peru's central Amazon region since the coronavirus pandemic
"They sent messages that if we did not desist (from reporting the incursions), they would take out those responsible, the leaders," he said, noting that images of dismembered bodies were sent to his mobile phone. Flor de Ucayali is among at least 100 indigenous communities in the central Amazon region of Ucayali that have been threatened in recent years by invading coca farmers, who grow the crop used to make cocaine for drug trafficking gangs.
Drug traffickers and coca farmers have targeted more territory in Peru's central Amazon region since the coronavirus pandemic