Uncontacted tribe’s plight sparks mass Indian plea to president
The desperate plight of the last remaining uncontacted Indians in Paraguay has sparked a mass Indian plea to Paraguay's new president.
The desperate plight of the last remaining uncontacted Indians in Paraguay has sparked a mass Indian plea to Paraguay's new president.
New satellite photos reveal that the territory of Paraguay's only remaining uncontacted Indians is rapidly being destroyed.
A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival has called his life, ‘a symbol of the fate of Indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus’.
Signs of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin have been spotted by other members of their tribe in Paraguay.
Survival will present a petition to the Paraguayan government on 9 August, UN Indigenous People's Day, with 57,000 signatures in support of uncontacted Ayoreo Indians.
Satellite imagery has revealed that the last refuge of uncontacted South American Indians is being illegally destroyed.
A Paraguayan rancher illegally occupying part of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians' ancestral territory has destroyed key hunting grounds.
The heartland of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin is at imminent risk of destruction.