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Drug trafficking, logging, oil palm plantations, oil spills, highways, illegal fishing, expanding Mennonite communities — in the Peruvian Amazon, there’s no shortage of threats against Indigenous peoples or their lands. But now the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people, living in the department of Ucayali, near the border with Brazil, have taken steps to protect themselves from the barrage […]

Servindi, 25 de julio, 2021.- El lunes 26 de julio a partir de las 6:00 p. m. se realizará el panel público: “200 años de exclusión. Problemas y posibilidades de los pueblos indígenas en el Perú”. En el evento participaran destacados líderes y lideresas indígenas del país y es organizado por el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Pueblos Indígenas de la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDDHH). El panel se realizará vía zoom y será difundido simultáneamente por las cuentas de Facebook Live de medios aliados como Lamula.pe, IDL-Reporteros; SER Noticias; Inforegión y Servindi.

Photo: ANDINA/Presidency of the Council of Ministers 12:28 | Pucallpa (Ucayali region), Feb. 26. Prime Minister Violeta Bermudez on Thursday met with representatives of indigenous organizations to coordinate actions aimed to assist the indigenous peoples of Peru's Ucayali region and reaffirm the commitment, so that these communities are immunized during the second phase of vaccination against COVID-19. The meeting was attended by the Chairmen of the Inter-ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle (Aidesep) Lizardo Cauper; Aidesep Ucayali Regional Organization (ORAU) Berli...

Shipibo children paddle a canoe near their village in Peru's Ucayali region. (Photo/Barbara Fraser) Editor's Note: EarthBeat Weekly is your weekly newsletter about faith and climate change. Below is the Dec. 11 edition. To receive EarthBeat Weekly in your inbox, sign up here. Despite all the high-tech solutions proposed for capturing carbon from the atmosphere, one of the best methods is low-tech and inexpensive: keep the planet's forests, especially its tropical forests, intact. Indigenous peoples and other traditional forest dwellers are on the frontlines in protecting t...