Exploring the Impacts of Deforestation, Oil Palm Expansion and Corporate Impunity on an Amazonian Community in Peru – New Storymap
The ongoing struggle of Santa Clara de Uchunya in defence of their ancestral territory and against corporate impunity reveal how the Peruvian State has failed to fulfill its multiple legal obligations towards the community, as well as its international commitments.
A new storymap looks at the Indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people's fight for justice and to protect their territories and forests against land grabbing, deforestation and agribusiness expansion in Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon.
Using a combination of satellite imagery, historical and contemporary maps, the storymap includes sections on:
- before and after aerial imagery of the community’s ancestral territory between 2012 and 2020, showing the extent of forest destruction and oil palm expansion;
- a historical perspective on the community’s struggle for the recognition of their territorial rights;
- a timeline and satellite imagery looking at the evolving dynamics of land dispossession and forest destruction;
- the international web of companies and other actors which have enabled and profited from the plantation expansion; and
- the failures of the Peruvian State to fulfil its legal obligations and international commitments to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights and protect Amazonian forests.
The storymap offers a perspective based upon Forest Peoples Programme’s accompaniment of the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya in their struggle to protect their territory, lives and livelihoods for more than six years.
Overview
- Resource Type:
- Reports
- Publication date:
- 27 July 2021
- Region:
- Peru
- Programmes:
- Territorial Governance Supply Chains and Trade Access to Justice
- Translations:
- Spanish: Explorando los impactos de la deforestación, la expansión de la palma aceitera y la impunidad corporativa sobre una comunidad amazónica en el Perú - nuevo storymap