Residents travel down the Huallaga River in the Chazuta community within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park, in Peru’s Amazon, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. Residents in Kichwa Indigenous villages in Peru say they fell into poverty after the government turned their ancestral forest into a national park, restricted hunting and sold forest carbon credits to oil companies. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia) By Ed Davey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN MARTIN, Peru (AP)- Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. Nothing has been the same since that day, when a park ranger took away his hunting rifles. Now where there was once self-sufficiency, hunger has stalked his village.   Zumba’s story has its roots in the 2001 creation of Peru’s Cordillera Azul National

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