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News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/report-links-killings-to-environmental-crimes-in-perus-amazon/
Published on: Thursday 12 September 2024
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) says the Peruvian Amazon is experiencing a rise in murders against ...
News Peru » Amazona » Security: 'We have no choice': Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru's Amazon
News channel or source: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5602335/indigenous-cocaine-traffickers-peru-amazon
Published on: Saturday 15 November 2025
UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...