land, expanding "soy frontiers" directly destroy forests. The 2006 Soy Moratorium, which banned buying soy from newly deforested areas, is currently weakening.

Despite external pressures, deforestation rates are comparatively lower in indigenous territories due to legal land titling initiatives that have reduced deforestation by 75% in Peru. By the year 2022, around 26% of the forest was considered as deforested or highly degraded. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, 300,000 square miles