Overview

• Police and environmental prosecutors carried out operations on September 26 and 28 on the Pachitea and in Pampas Verdes, ordering immediate interdiction of dredges and heavy machinery under Decree 1100.
• Authorities valued the seized and destroyed assets at roughly S/1.038 million from river dredges and S/7.184 million from machinery and camps, with both actions concluding without injuries.
• Officers reported well-organized resistance with lookouts and about 60 people gathering to confront agents, and they used a drone to capture aerial evidence of active sites.
• Panguana cofounder Juliane Koepcke warned that the river has been devastated and contaminated, saying fish have disappeared as heavy excavators replace dredges and encroach on the forest.
• Attorney César Ipenza alleged local facilitation in Pampas Verdes with payments of S/30,000 per machine, filed five criminal complaints, and urged aerial deployments as police plan continued intelligence-led operations in Puerto Inca.