Conservación Alto Amazonas

$12,500 to support 3 Yurua communities within the 10 million acre Alto Purús Landscape, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the upper Amazon in Southeast Peru, that are threatened by a new, illegal road which could open previously inaccessible forests with potentially devastating impacts on the ecosystems and the people who depend on them for survival. This project is updating 3 communities’ land title, which was previously done in the 1990s using outdated methods that did not include fieldwork to mark boundaries and create formal, accurate maps, which the current process will correct. Through this project, community members, including women, were trained, and compensated as members of the demarcation team together with titling specialists and the updated land titles strengthen ongoing territorial defense efforts.