La Guardia Indígena protects around 8 million hectares of the Peruvian Amazon from logging, fishing, and coca growing.
The Shipibo Konibo-Xetebo claim that the government allows poachers, coca growers, and loggers to enter the area while focusing its enforcement efforts on Indigenous people catching and selling fish to survive.
“What kind of protection and conservation are we talking about?” Pezo asked rhetorically at the press forum. For example, a Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo woman named Sorayda Cruz Vesada was arrested and fined the equivalent of $400 in 2016 for attempting to sell a large Amazonian fish called the paiche in order to pay for her daughter’s school supplies,Things came to a head in 2020, when the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo community learned of plans between the ACR, the Ucayali Department of Fisheries, and U.S. Agency for International Development to open Lake Imiría to commercial fishing.
Tulio said the people wanted to live and work freely without the government harming their forest or inserting itself into their way of life.The occupation in July succeeded in ousting the USAID-backed company Pro Bosques from the area, but the threat of the project lingers, and the status of the protected area remains uncertain. Tulio believes the regional government — or its supporters — is behind the death threats against him.
The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo’s struggle comes at a crucial time for both conservation and Indigenous rights. As world leaders
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