Oil and Gas
Hydrocarbons projects (oil, gas, petroleum) currently present one of the greatest threats to the Peruvian Amazon and the peoples who live there due to their devastating environmental, social and health related impacts.
Logging
Logging has long been the main economic activity in the Amazon region, however it has also long been an activity that enriches some at the expense of many, often exploiting indigenous labour and resources.
Indigenous Territory
Indigenous territories and the resources contained therein are essential to the lives, cultures, histories, health, and social reproduction of indigenous peoples. Land is not something that can be bought and sold or exchanged for land elsewhere, but is integral to the identity of the people who live on it.
Communication
The geographical and conceptual distance between State authorities and indigenous Amazonian communities often leads to problems in communication between the two, impeding the reporting of rights' violations and leading to critical delays in accessing emergency health services.
People living in voluntary isolation
Devastating epidemics, slave raids and massacres in the recent past are some of the motives behind the decision taken by a few indigenous people to limit their relationship with national society. Whatever their motive, these people have the right to live in peace and decide for themselves the nature of any future interactions.
Settlers in the Amazon
Movement into the Amazon from the heavily populated mountain region is promoted by favourable government policies. The farming, hunting and fishing methods that they bring with them contrast to the methods employed by local indigenous people whose ancestral territories may be divided up and titled to the settlers.