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The report "Authorized to Steal" by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) investigates how organized crime networks in Peru use official documentation to launder illegally harvested timber from the Amazon. Analyzing 1,024 Forest Transport Permits (GTFs) from 2017, the report details the collusion between forestry regents, public officials, and private businesspeople to bypass regulations, specifically in the Loreto and Ucayali regions.

This document consists of a series of annexes supporting a request for urgent precautionary measures to suspend hydrocarbon exploration in the territories of the Cacataibo indigenous people. It provides extensive ethnographic evidence, including over 100 testimonies from 2002 to 2006, to prove the existence of Cacataibo groups living in voluntary isolation. The report details the physical characteristics, diet, and housing of these isolated groups, their historical conflicts with other ethnic groups and rubber tappers, and the environmental and health risks posed by seismic exploration in 'Lote 107'. It also outlines the legal status of Cacataibo communal lands and the chronological process of requesting territorial reserves for the isolated populations.

This policy brief argues for the systematic monitoring of sediment transport in Andean-Amazonian river basins as a critical climate change adaptation measure. It details how different types of sediment (wash load, suspended bed load, and bed load) support ecosystem biodiversity and how anthropogenic infrastructure—such as hydroelectric dams and dredging—can disrupt these natural balances, leading to environmental degradation and increased operational costs.

A public statement issued by FENACOCA in August 2007 opposing hydrocarbon exploration in proposed Cacataibo territorial reserves to protect the lives and integrity of Cacataibo people in voluntary isolation.

FENACOCA issued a public statement in August 2007 rejecting oil exploration in proposed Cacataibo territorial reserves in Peru, citing risks to those in voluntary isolation. The organization demanded the Peruvian state finalize the creation of these reserves, requested precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and conditioned negotiations with the company "PETROLIFERA" on a guarantee of non-entry into the reserves.