1. ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE
PERUVIAN FOREST SECTOR 2008 – 2009
15th Illegal Logging Stakeholder Update
20th – 21st January 2010
Chatham House, 10 St James’s Square, London
Lucila Pautrat, 2010

2. PERU:

3. ECONOMIC GROWTH VS. SOCIAL CONFLICTS: PERU 2006 - 2009
TOWARDS A CRISIS
OF GOVERNABILITY?
In Dec. 2009:
Ombudsman
reported 267
Conflicts
49 % Socio -
Environmental
Conflict: Mining &
Oil (Forest &
Indigenous lands)

4. FOREST LAND USE PLANNING: 7´171,553.98 ha
DEFORESTED
(INRENA, 2005)
MILLION LAND USE
HECTAREAS
Forest for Production (Timber, Non
18 Timber, Ecotourism, Wildlife and
Environmental Services)
14 National Protected Areas
12 Indigenous Communities Lands
Informal occupation (Lack of
?? Information and registration)
-Informal Occupation
?? Other Public Lands
-Illegal crops of coca leaves

5. ILLEGAL LOGGING IN PERU:
COMERCIO DE CAOBA
60,000
50,000
Illegal Logging
ercializados
40,000
30,000
m com
20,000
3
10,000
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Año
Fuente: IFFS – INRENA, 2008

6. IMPACTS OF ILLEGAL LOGGING
SOCIAL:
• Violation of Indigenous communities’ rights
• Health problems and poverty
• Forced labour & exploitation
ENVIRONMENTAL:
• Deforestation / Biodiversity loss
• Land use change
• Soil and water contamination
• Breaches into National Protected Areas
ECONOMICS:
• Tax evasion
• Money ‘laundering’
• Wood traffic
• Loss of natural resources

7. PERU – US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
• April 12th, 2006: Peru-US FTA signed
• June 24th, 2007: Protocol of Amendments to the FTA Peru – US
signed, which contains The Forestry Annex 18.3.4
• Dec. 2007: Law Nº 29157
• March - June 2008, the Executive approved 99 Legislatives
Decrees, 63 of which were approved in one day. They were not pre-
published or reviewed by the Congress or any other Public
Institution.

8. Road Infrastructure
2009: Projects
BIOFUELS
Oil & Gas Plots offers
by the Government.
80% of them are
overlap to Indigenous
Lands & Indigenous
Isolated Populations
Reserves
Source: IBC, 2009

9. June 11th, 2009: The
Ombudsman Office report:
• 11 Indigenous people dead
• 23 Policemen dead
• 197 people hurt in several
local hospitals
• 79 people arrested

10. CONCLUSIONS:
CHALLENGES IN THE PERUVIAN FOREST SECTOR
• Peruvian citizens perceived the government as absent,
• January 2010: Minister or Agriculture start a Participatory
incoherent and arbitrary
Process for design the National Forest Policy & New Forest
•Forest Annex (Peru – USA FTA) promotes governance and
Law
aims to eradicate illegal logging
• Create a Forestry Vice Ministry
• However it was misused by the government to implement
• On going Decentralisation process in the Forest Sector
structural reforms, which promoted private investments in
biofuels, mining and oil production, and breached the rights
of indigenous communities
• Economic policy is one of the factors
increasing social conflicts

11. Thank you!..
Lucila Pautrat
lpautrat@par.org.pe