Uniting efforts, creativity and talent, Shipibo-conibas craftswomen of Coronel Portillo (Ucayali) feature contemporary textile line, based on the designs of their cultural heritage
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Alarming growth areas of deforestation in the Amazon
Until 2015 were lost 158.658 hectares of forest in Peru, according to the map of deforestation of Global Land Analysis & Discovery alert system.
Peru: Victims of trafficking must pay for their freedom
Caught in the middle of the jungle. Young captured in the form of ‘debt’ are forced to serve sexually to miners in ‘La Pampa’, in Madre de Dios. To leave this place they must raise money working in bars as escorts.
The rescue of the shipibo world through Intercultural Bilingual Education
Learn about the work that do in Pucallpa Gamaniel Monteluisa, a Shipibo teacher and other teachers of these Amazonian people to maintain their language and traditions through the Intercultural Bilingual Education.
Kichwas that blocked the Tigre river require arrival of a high-level commission
Indigenous peoples affirmed they will not desist until the arrival of state commissioners and senior executives of the company Pluspetrol.
La República: Vice-president of Ucayali region, in Peru, legalize illegal timber
This year the Supervisory Agency for Forest Resources ordered the closing of its 4 concessions when he proved the illegal origin of more than 4 thousand cubic meters of wood.
Survival calls on Peru to protect isolated indigenous in the Amazon
Indigenous denounces murders to their family probably by illegal loggers and drug traffickers.