'We've been resisting, and we continue to resist generation after generation because this land is our life,' a Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo leader said of Indigenous efforts to protect the Peruvian Amazon.
The Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people of the Peruvian Amazon are organizing themselves to protect their ancestral forests and waters from illegal fishing, logging, and cocoa growing amidst conservation and development efforts from both the government and international nonprofits that they say are ineffective at best and actively harmful to Indigenous ways of life at worst.
"We've been resisting, and we continue to resist generation after generation because this land is our life," Lizardo Cauper Pezo, president of the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo Council,"Without the forest, the world would be chaos." However, the guard does not threaten or seek to harm fishers, loggers, or drug traffickers. Instead, they attempt to speak with them and explain that the land belongs to the Shipibo-Konibo-Xetebo people. If fishers return for a second time, the guard may destroy their equipment. In total, the guard has confronted fishers 45 times.
"We don't threaten, we only need to care for the forest, because the forest is for everyone," Tulio said."Without the forest, the world would be chaos."
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