On June 24, 2023, following enormous outcry from Peruvian civil society and international human rights groups, Peru’s Congress voted against a law that sought to eliminate the reserves for Indigenous People in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in a formidable demonstration of strength on the part of the Peruvian Indigenous movement.

With your help, we launched a campaign targeting the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force to pressure its members in Peru to side with human and territorial rights. The Task Force responded, but the threat remains, and we will be engaging further with its leadership.

Extractive actors are still pushing a package of virulently anti-environmental legislation through Peru’s Congress, which could put the Amazon at greater risk.