Charip: The Wampis Territorial Guard Protecting the #amazon in Peru

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Here in the One Piece nation, indigenous people facing state neglect have organized an indigenous surveillance monitoring group called Charrip, which actually means thunder.

[00:00:12]With this group of young men and women, they are monitoring the entry of armed illegal invaders such as miners who travel to the Santiago River, where [music] they are also dredging to extract gold deposits. And here they are calling the ships to stop and what kind of inspection they are doing.

[00:00:33]First we register who the staff are getting off, where they are going, and what they are taking with them. If we find something suspicious, like a machine, right? This one, which trains gold, if it's going to be used in mining, uh, the machine stays, right? and lower staff. The miners are leaving behind a very large environmental barrier that is disrupting ancestral practices in the territory.

[00:00:58]The miners enter with the machines and supplies, such as drugs, and this directly affects the communities. The One Piece are preventing new miners from entering the territory and are seizing [music] by destroying mining machinery.