In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Mongabay
Jul 31, 2018, 10:36 am122 pts
JAKARTA — For the past four years, the indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya has battled for state recognition of its right to ancestral forests in a remote pocket of the Peruvian Amazon. The push began in 2014, when a palm oil company, Plantaciones de Pucallpa, bought 200 parcels of land inside the…

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