Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Mongabay
Dec 2, 2022, 10:10 pm171 pts
The territory belonging the Indigenous Kakataibo community of Puerto Nuevo comprises some 680 square kilometers (263 square miles) of rainforest between the regions of Huánuco and Ucayali in central Peru. Or, more accurately, it once did. Satellite data from Global Forest Watch show the territory was…

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