Peruvian Amazon Indigenous leaders to lobby banks to cut ties with state oil firm

Oil flow on the River Cuninico in the jungle region of Loreto, Peru, following a spill of an estimated 2,500 barrels in September. Photograph: Peru's Public Prosecutor's Offic/AFP/Getty Images

Native leaders from the Peruvian Amazon are to travel to the US this week to lobby banks to cut financial ties with Peru’s state oil company, Petroperú.

Leaders from the Achuar and Wampis peoples say the state company is responsible for oil spills in their territory that violate their human rights by polluting their water sources and irreparably damaging their fishing and hunting grounds.