Overview

• Quinto Inuma Alvarado, a Kichwa tribal leader, was shot dead in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that has seen high tensions between Indigenous people and illegal loggers.
• Alvarado was returning from a workshop for women environmental leaders when he was attacked on a boat. His aunt was also wounded in the attack.
• Alvarado had received numerous death threats over his reports on illegal logging. The loggers had threatened to kill him multiple times.
• Peru's ministries of Interior, Environment, Justice and Human Rights, and Culture have promised a meticulous investigation into Alvarado's death and a search for suspects is underway.
• Last year, an investigation revealed that Kichwa tribes lost a significant portion of their ancestral territory to make way for Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park. The Kichwa claim they gave no consent for this and received no royalties.