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| Sebastian Woodroffe was killed in Peru on Thursday |
The 41-year-old was believed to have been studying natural medicine under Olivia Arevalo Lomas, an elderly shaman who ran a healing centre offering ayahuasca - an Indigenous hallucinogenic mixture.
The 81-year-old plant healer from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe was fatally shot on Thursday, with Peruvian authorities describing Woodroffe was her killer.
Woodroffe was slayed on the same day. His body was found in an unmarked shallow grave in the forest just half a mile from Arevalo's home in Victoria Gracia in North East Peru.
Ricardo Palma Jimenez, the head of the group of prosecutors in Ucayali, confirmed that the man in the video was Woodroffe and that he had been strangled to death after receiving several blows across his body.
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| Shaman Olivia Arevalo Lomas was fatally shot |
Mr Jiminez said that no arrests have been made in relation to either deaths.
He told Reuters: "We will not rest until both murders, of the Indigenous woman as well as the Canadian man, are solved."
Ms Lomas's murder has prompted outrage in Peru, following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands.
He told Reuters: "We will not rest until both murders, of the Indigenous woman as well as the Canadian man, are solved."
Ms Lomas's murder has prompted outrage in Peru, following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands.
Footage shows the bloody body of shaman Olivia Arevalo Lomas lying on the floor
Woodroffe, from British Columbia, was one of thousands of foreign tourists who travel to the Peruvian Amazon to experiment with ayahuasca, a bitter, dark-colored brew made of a mixture of native plants.
Arevalo was a staunch defender of indigenous people's rights in the region.
Arevalo was a staunch defender of indigenous people's rights in the region.
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| Lomas was a well-known activist for the cultural rights of the Shipibo-Conibo indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon |
In 2015, a Canadian fatally stabbed a fellow tourist from England after the two drank ayahuasca together in a spiritual ceremony a few hours' drive from where Woodroffe was killed
