Santa Clara de Uchunya against palm oil plantation, Peru Description: In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are facing the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers.
The struggle of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya against the expansion of oil palm. In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are facing the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers. This is due to the expansion of a palm oil plantation operated by Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C, a member of the Round Table ...
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In recent years, Peru's sprawling jungle has been cleared for palm oil and cocoa plantations. Conservationists say the land is controlled by private companies who acquired it through corrupt means.
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Efforts in Peru helped safeguard the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya against the expansion of a palm oil plantation on 38,745 hectares of community land in the Peruvian Amazon. These efforts also led to the suspension of the stock of the plantation’s parent company, United Cacao Limited SEZC, in the London Stock Exchange. United ...
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Attack on land rights defenders in Santa Clara de Uchunya. About FECONAU . Status: Attacked. About the situation. In January 2025, in the weeks following a court injunction against the palm oil company responsible for appropriating and deforesting more than 7,000 hectares of their ancestral territory, a spike in violent threats and intimidation took place against the Shipibo community of Santa ...
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RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development by Apoorva Joshi on 5 May 2016 Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru.
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The Shipibo-Konibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are struggling against the dispossession and devastation of their ancestral lands due to the aggressive expansion of oil palm. As well as negatively impacting food security and destroying their way of life, the company’s presence has driven fierce competition for control over lands ...
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It has been developing a palm oil plantation over the last several years. Researchers and conservationists say its development of a palm oil plantation in central Peru has deforested primary forest, while an indigenous community alleges that much of this development is happening on its ancentral lands.
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Plantaciones de Pucallpa, the company responsible for the plantation near the village, contends that it’s within its rights to install an oil palm plantation on this land, and that the release ...
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In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya face the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers. This is due to expansion of a palm oil plantation belonging to the Melka Group.
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2025-11-14· The struggle of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya against the expansion of oil palm. In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are facing the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers. This is due to the expansion of a palm oil plantation operated by Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C, a member of the Round Table
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The Shipibo-Konibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are struggling against the dispossession and devastation of their ancestral lands due to the aggressive expansion of oil palm. As well as negatively impacting food security and destroying their way of life, the company’s presence has driven fierce competition for control over lands
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Leaders from the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, Peru, have reported a spike in violent threats and intimidation in the weeks following a court injunction against the palm oil company responsible for appropriating and deforesting more than 7,000 hectares of their ancestral territory.. Carlos Hoyos Soria, chief of Santa Clara de Uchunya, reported two separate incidents which
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In January 2025, in the weeks following a court injunction against the palm oil company responsible for appropriating and deforesting more than 7,000 hectares of their ancestral territory, a spike in violent threats and intimidation took place against the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya.
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One of their workshops was held at Santa Clara de Uchunya, a 200-strong indigenous community on the frontline of the simmering conflict. The Melka oil palm plantations are visible at the far side
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Efforts in Peru helped safeguard the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya against the expansion of a palm oil plantation on 38,745 hectares of community land in the Peruvian Amazon. These efforts also led to the suspension of the stock of the plantation’s parent company, United Cacao Limited SEZC, in the London Stock Exchange. United
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2020-03-05· This week, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has divested all its holdings in Peru’s largest consumer goods company, Alicorp S.A.A., after it was revealed that the company was acquiring palm oil from a plantation linked to serious violations of indigenous peoples land rights and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.
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2025-04-17· In the Peruvian Amazon, the battle between ‘sustainable’ palm oil and industrial-scale deforestation continues. The global body charged with certifying palm oil as sustainable, RSPO, was notified for a second time in March 2025 by the indigenous community Santa Clara de Uchunya that their lands, lives and livelihoods remain under threat.
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2025-08-23· Later in 2016, the Conservation Association published satellite imagery in the Aguaytía River region around plantations in Santa Clara de Uchunya showing rapid deforestation. The Santa Clara de Uchunya story is typical of how deforestation in the Peruvian occurs as people move in and clear land in a bid to obtain land titles.
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2016-05-24· This post is a version of an article originally published on Juan Arellano's Globalizado blog.. Santa Clara de Uchunya is a small community in the Peruvian Amazon, located on the banks of the Aguaytía river in the Ucayali region. Its members, who are of Shipibo origin, are taking legal action against the Plantaciones de Pucallpa (Plantations of Pucallpa) company's appropriation and
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The case concerns the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya whose lands were acquired by a Peruvian company, Plantaciones de Pucallpa SAC (one of only two RSPO members in Peru) in 2012 in an undisclosed deal with the regional government of Ucayali. The community only realized when the first bulldozers began destroying the forest
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The dusty dirt road to Santa Clara de Uchunya, in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon, offers a vision of what the world's largest rainforest might become. Mile after mile, you pass cattle pastures and oil palm plantations on what used to be virgin rainforest. Driving in, you are almost run off the road by hulking dump trucks full of
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Leaders from the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, Peru, have reported a spike in violent threats and intimidation in the weeks following a court injunction against the palm oil company responsible for appropriating and deforesting more than 7,000 hectares of their ancestral territory.. Carlos Hoyos Soria, chief of Santa Clara de Uchunya, reported two separate incidents which
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LONDON: On the 25th April the complaints panel of the RSPO (Round table on Sustainable Palm Oil) issued a preliminary ‘Stop work order’ to Plantaciones de Pucallpa, one of its Peruvian members, whose operations are affecting the territory of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon.
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According to the RSPO’s complaints panel, Plantaciones de Pucallpa is failing to respect customary land rights and clearing primary forest. Two big palm oil plantations in the Peruvian have attracted the attention of conservation and human rights organizations that say their development has resulted in the destruction of rainforest and harmed surrounding communities. On
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Expansion of deforestation and oil palm cultivation in the territory of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, 2010 2025. Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is with
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London, 6th November 2016: On the 12th October, and just days before the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil’s (RSPO) complaints panel was supposed to issue a final judgment on the complaint filed against them by the community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, Plantaciones de
Get PriceThe Indigenous Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon, is facing invasion of its ancestral lands by corporate oil palm plantations and land traffickers. The community claims as its ancestral territory the entire area traditionally used for hunting, fishing, farming and fruit collection. Yet they have only
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This map illustrates how the forest clearance associated with the plantations has resulted in the destruction of over 12,000 hectares of old growth forests within Santa Clara de Uchunya’s traditional lands between 2010 and 2025, with severe consequences for the community.
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“We welcome the NBIM’s decision to stop financing Alicorp’s activities, which shows that even huge companies such as this should think twice before buying palm oil from a plantation like the one Ocho Sur operates on our dispossessed lands,” said Ivan Flores, a community leader from Santa Clara de Uchunya
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As highlighted in a recent report by Global Witness, Peru is one of the deadliest countries globally for land and environmental defenders. The Ucayali region, where Santa Clara de Uchunya is located, has some of the highest deforestation rates in the Peruvian Amazon, and also saw some of the greatest violence associated with land conflicts.
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Expansion of deforestation and oil palm cultivation in the territory of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya, 2010 2025. Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is with
Get PricePalm oil plantation in Ucayali, Peru. Rainforest is being increasingly cleared to make way for huge palm oil plantations. At the border. The indigenous “Santa Clara de Uchunya” community in
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LONDON: On the 25th April the complaints panel of the RSPO (Round table on Sustainable Palm Oil) issued a preliminary ‘Stop work order’ to Plantaciones de Pucallpa, one of its Peruvian members, whose operations are affecting the territory of the Shipibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon.
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In the territory of the Shipibo people of the Peruvian Amazon, the indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya are facing the devastation of their ancestral forests and rivers. This is due to the aggressive expansion of a palm oil plantation operated by Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C., a member of a group of companies controlled by
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RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development by Apoorva Joshi on 5 May 2016 Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru.
Get PriceThe complaint before RSPO was filed by the indigenous community Santa Clara de Uchunya, which accuses Plantaciones of selling illegal timber, burning down forests and planting oil palm on
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The Romero Group in Peru is a powerful economic conglomerate which invested heavily since 1979 in palm oil plantations in Amazonia, causing deforestation.
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2015-11-24· Bolivar is an indigenous activist who has been working with the Shipibo community from the village of Santa Clara de Uchunya for the past year to oppose the destruction of what the community
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