Peru's Indigenous rainforest land ruling overturned.

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Peru's Indigenous rainforest land ruling overturned.
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An appeals court in Peru has set aside a landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests. The Kichwa tribes lived in the area of Cordillera Azul National Park for centuries before the park was founded in 2001 in what the Kichwa say was theft of their land. Major companies such as Shell and TotalEnergies have spent more than $80 million since then buying credits in the park to counter their carbon emissions. The community fell into food poverty after losing free access to hunt, fish and gather in the park area.

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