Peru court rules in favor of Kichwa territorial rights in the Amazon

Four Sami villages sued the state because they want the exclusive right to allow small game hunting and fishing above the cultivation limit. Now they have allowed Gudrun Norstedt, PhD in forest history, to conduct studies on competing land uses. “To the extent that it occurs by people other than local Sami, it is very marginal,” she says.

Peru court rules in favor of Kichwa territorial rights in the Amazon

A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area of the Amazon.

Indigenous leaders of Latin America, at the beginning of a summit on Thursday (22nd) in the village of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, expressed their opposition to the violation of their rights and the ruthless mining of raw materials in their territories. Representatives of indigenous peoples from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico, as well as the Saamaka clan from Surinam, who are descendants of after [...] The post Indigen…

Indigenous leaders from Latin America expressed their rebellion against the disrespect for their rights and rejected the voracious extractivism in their territories during the start of a summit on Thursday in the village of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. - Indigenous resistance - Indigenous representatives from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico, as well as from the Saamaka clan of Suriname, made up of descendants of Africans broug…

Peruvian court rules in favour of Indigenous community’s land rights, raising stakes for large REDD project « Carbon Pulse

A Peruvian court has ordered the country's government to define the boundaries of Kichwa ancestral lands located within two state-designated protected natural areas (PNAs), sources told Carbon Pulse, a move that could have potential repercussions for one of the largest REDD projects in the world facing a similar lawsuit.