Regularizing land tenure on landscapes where private property predominates is more challenging than on landscapes occupied by communal landholdings. In part, this is due to their greater number, but the task is further complicated by the limited resources of their owners and the chaotic nature of frontier landscapes. The Censo Nacional Agropecuario of 2012 enumerated […]
Kichwa leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado, president the Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu community, was murdered last Wednesday, November 29, in the San Martín region of the Peruvian Amazon. The crime took place around five p.m. when the activist was traveling with several relatives on the Yanayacu River. When his boat hit a tree and got stuck, […]
A group of Kichwa patrollers living in the Peruvian Indigenous communities of Santa Rosillo de Yanayaku and Anak Kurutuyaku made an unexpected discovery in 2018. On their land in the Lower Huallaga region, they found coca cultivated in areas that did not correspond to communities’ traditional use of the plant. Coca is used to make […]
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Comunidades kichwa arrinconadas por el narcotráfico y la tala en PerúAutor Mongabay Latam
Mongabay Latam detectó una pérdida importante de bosque con la ayuda de imágenes satelitales dentro y alrededor de las comunidades indígenas de Santa Rosillo de Yanayaku y Anak Kurutuyaku en la región San Martín.
Las 990 alertas de deforestación obtenidas en Global Forest Watch revelaron una historia de enfrentamientos entre pobladores indígenas y narcotraficantes junto a taladores ilegales que empiezan a dominar el territorio y a amenazar de muerte a quienes se interpongan en sus planes.
Un grupo de ronderos kichwa que vive en las