Poaching of endangered species flourishes despite widespread outcry – but sustainable fishing could end the violence engulfing the trade
Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert and Dom Phillips, a British journalist and longtime Guardian contributor, were killed on the Amazon’s Itaquaí River last June while returning from a reporting trip to the remote Javari Valley region.
rivers which is home to about 6,000 Indigenous people from the Kanamari, Kulina, Korubo, Marubo, Matis, Mayoruna and Tsohom-dyapa groups, as well as 16 isolated groups.prompting violent conflicts between the Indigenous inhabitants and thecreation in 2001. Its strategic location makes it a key route for smuggling cocaine between Peru, Colombia and Brazil.
The Javari valley’s most prized asset is the arapaima, a giant air-breathing fish which Brazilians call the pirarucu and Peruvians know as paiche. One of the world’s largest freshwater fish, the arapaima can grow up to three metres in length and often weighs about 90kg . It is considered a delicacy in major Latin American cities such as Lima, São Paulo and Bogotá.
A year-long investigation by Forbidden Stories found that the illegal trade continues to flourish in the tri-border region between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, despite government pledges to stamp out environmental crime following last year’s killings. None of the three countries there have rigid controls over the origin of the arapaima being sold.
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