16-05-2025
Amazonian communities in Peru rejoice as plan for oil drilling on ancestral land stalls
Peru 's state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups, prompting celebration by the communities and environmentalists on Friday.
The land parcel known as Block 64, which overlaps the ancestral territories of the Achuar, Wampis , and Chapra nations, has long been the focus of Indigenous resistance.
