Carried out in Peru, this project aims to secure the lands of 44 indigenous communities and protect 200,000 hectares of Amazonian forests.
The project is located in the northern part of the Peruvian Amazon in Loreto, which is subject to intense pressure from timber extractors who take advantage of the absence of official documentation of land ownership by local communities: land ownership is not recorded in the local land registers nor officially tenured. They therefore cannot assert their rights, despite these being provided for under the Peruvian Constitution.
The project aims to grant legal land titles to 44 indigenous communities in the Lower Ucayali Basin and thus protect at least 200,000 hectares of Amazonian forest. Conducted onsite in collaboration with CEDIA (Centre for the Development of the Amazonian Indigenous), it strives to establish the legal status and tenure of the lands of these 44 communities and reinforce institutional capabilities by providing them with records of communal management, statutes and other management tools.
The project involves the topographic delimitation of the lands belonging to these 44 indigenous communities – accounting for approximately 13,000 people and over 200,000 hectares of forest –, obtaining legal titles for these communities, training community leaders to assert their land rights, supporting local population and combating rural exodus.
