Wändari

The southern Amazon of Peru is one of the regions with the largest biodiversity on the planet, and a territory in conflict. At the beginning of the s. XX the rubber fever brought death and slavery for thousands of natives. In the 1920s, Dominican missionaries joined a colonizing front fostered by the State, seeking access to the region’s natural resources. The initial contact was followed by the gold rush, with the cornering of the native populations that have also succumbed to extractivism. Today they are torn between mining and the defense of Wändari, their territory.