EDWIN CHOTA

BIRTH

• He was born in 1960
• He was born in Peru

WHAT HE DID

• Environmental activist
• Saved the forest

VIOLENCE

• Guns
• Death
• Danger

Ashéninka indigenous settlement of Saweto

• President of the settlement
• Gained back their land in 2015

TITLE

• Only respect with title
• Loggers did not understand

DEATH

• Died on September 1 2014
• Killed by loggers

WIDOWS

• Widows angry
• Wanted to see their husbands

AIDESEP

• AIDESEP tried to defend Chota

AFTER DEATH

WORKS CITED

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Chota
• https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140911-peru-amazon-illegal...
• https://rainforestfoundation.org/asheninka-of-saweto-gain-title-to-ancestra...