Peru Indigenous patrols see success & struggles in combating illegal miners

Mongabay
Nov 12, 2025, 10:20 am97 pts
For several years, illegal gold mining, loggers and other invaders have impacted the territory of the Indigenous Wampís people (or Huambisa) of the northern Peruvian Amazon. To combat these threats amid a lack of state support, the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation (GTANW) formed the…

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