NEW INVESTIGATION

The Roots of Environmental Crime
in the Peruvian Amazon

Today, InSight Crime and Igarapé Institute launch a sweeping investigation that tracks the environmental crimes and criminal actors driving deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. A product of a full year of interviews and fieldwork, the six-part series reveals – step-by-step – how illegal gold and timber are laundered into legal export pipelines, and how vast swaths of rainforest are cut down and usurped for agribusinesses and cattle ranching. 

Chapters
1. Money Grows on Trees: Environmental Crime in Peru's Amazon
2. Felled and Burned: Deforestation in the Peru's Amazon
3. A Toxic Trade: Illegal Mining in Peru's Amazon
4. Poaching Grounds: Wildlife Trafficking in Peru's Amazon
5. Corruption at Every Level: Who Profits from Destruction of Peru's Amazon
6. State Resilience: Little Political Will for Protecting Peru's Amazon
READ THE FULL REPORT

“The Roots of Environmental Crime in the Peruvian Amazon” is the second in a series of joint investigations by InSight Crime and Igarapé Institute looking at how environmental crimes harm ecosystems and threaten communities in the rainforest. Our investigation is complemented by EcoCrime Data, an interactive platform developed by Igarapé Institute that maps environmental crime threats in the Amazon basin. 
 

See the series’ first installment on environmental crime in the Colombian Amazon >


About Igarapé Institute


The Igarapé Institute is an independent think and do tank focused on public, climate and digital security and their consequences for democracy. Its objective is to propose solutions and partnerships for global challenges through research, new technologies, communication and influence on public policymaking. The Institute works with governments, the private sector and civil society to design data-based solutions. Prospect Magazine named Igarapé Institute the best Human Rights NGO in 2018 and best think tank on social policy in 2019.
 


About InSight Crime 


InSight Crime is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of the principal threat to national and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean: organized crime. For a decade, InSight Crime has crossed borders and institutions – as an amalgam of journalism outlet, think tank and academic resource – to deepen the debate and inform on organized crime in the Americas. On-the-ground reporting, careful research and impactful investigations are hallmarks of the organization.
 

We want to continue exposing
 organized crime in the region 


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InSight Crime is sponsored by:
American University
Open Society Foundations
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

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