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Loggers Clash with Indigenous Group in Peruvian Amazon, Resulting in Fatalities
In a recent incident in the Peruvian Amazon, an uncontacted tribe is reported to have killed two loggers with bows and arrows, while another logger was injured and two are missing. The attack occurred on August 29, a day before the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) suspended the sustainability certification of a logging company accused of encroaching on the tribe's ancestral land. The FSC's decision to suspend certification has been met with demands from Peruvian Amazon Indigenous groups and the NGO Survival International to permanently cancel the certification of the Canales Tahuamanu timber concession. The incident has highlighted escalating tensions between the tribe and indigenous groups, with FENAMAD, an organization advocating for Indigenous rights, expressing concern over the situation.
It's absurd that certifiers like the FSC keep the certification of companies that clearly and openly violate basic human rights and Indigenous rights.
How terrible that people have to keep dying and that it has to be an international scandal for action to be taken.
The Peruvian state has not taken preventive and protective measures to ensure the lives and integrity of the workers who have been gravely affected.
There are people wounded, dead, missing – we don't know what's happening or what has happened.
Undoubtedly, every day there are more tensions between Indigenous peoples in isolation and the different activities that are within the territory that they ancestrally pass through.
Amazon Deforestation
sources
perspectives
- 1.Amazon Deforestation
- 2.Amazon Forest
- 3.Peruvian Economy
- 4.Amazon Indigenous Groups
- 5.Brazilian Economy
countries
organizations
- 1.Mashco Piro
- 2.Canales Tahuamanu SAC
- 3.Forest Stewardship Council
- 4.Environmental Investigation Agency
- 5.NGO Survival International
- 6.Survival International
- 7.FENAMAD