Peru: Indigenous Peoples

July 2, 2008 marked the establishment of the world’s first conservation concession managed by an indigenous group. The Haramba Queros Wachiperi Ecological Reserve protects 6,976 hectares (17,238 acres) of highly biodiverse forest located in the Amazon rainforest of southeastern Peru.

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
By Jon Lee Anderson

AP in Lima, The Guardian, Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
Authorities perplexed as more than 100 members of clan that has almost no contact with outsiders threaten to cross river.

El explorador español Diego Cortijo, que ha retratado a pueblos indígenas aislados en el Amazonas, defiende la necesidad de hacerlos visibles.
LaVanguardia.com, 28/08/2013

Manú National Park is a biological wonder, protected—for now—by isolation and the indigenous people deep in its rain forest. (National Geographic, June 2016)

The Uncontacted Indians of Peru--
At risk of extinction from disease and land loss.
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest in Peru live tribes who have no contact with the outside world.
Oil workers and illegal loggers are invading their land and bringing disease. They won’t survive unless this stops.

In the Amazon region of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Amazon Watch is working directly with indigenous communities to build local capacity and advance the long-term protection of their lands. (Search "indigenous peru")

IWGIA is an international, non-governmental human rights organization that supports indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights, self-determination, right to territory, control of land and resources, cultural integrity, and the right to development.

Learn about major developments and events centering around indigenous communities in Peru.

LAB is an independent charitable organisation based in London providing news, analysis and information on Latin America, its people, politics and society. LAB exists to promote greater understanding and awareness of the region . . .

For over 40 years, LAB has disseminated information on Latin America aimed at stimulating and influencing debate on issues of human rights, development, social and economic justice, political rights, culture and environmental degradation.

Youtube video. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology

Youtube video. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology

Photo album. CACE--Center for Amazon Community Ecology

This is first of two videos that the Center for Amazon Community Ecology made to describe ways that artisans in this region make handicrafts from local plants.

Part 1 of this series probes the relationship between bark-boring weevils and the insects that provoke the formation of resin on copal trees in the Amazon region and the importance of this resin to bees and forest people.