100 days after the 'Amazon's Tiananmen', pressure mounts on government
One hundred days after the ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’, international pressure on Peru’s government to overhaul its relationship with the country’s Indigenous population is mounting.
One hundred days after the ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’, international pressure on Peru’s government to overhaul its relationship with the country’s Indigenous population is mounting.
A giant Anglo-French oil project in Peru’s Amazon is at risk after the country’s Indians launched a court bid to stop it.
The UN has told Peru’s government it should not allow oil and gas drilling on Indigenous peoples’ land without their ‘informed consent’.
Peru’s Indigenous Affairs Department, INDEPA, has announced it will investigate claims that loggers have invaded a reserve created for uncontacted Indians.
New aerial photos have revealed illegal loggers operating inside an Amazonian reserve set aside for uncontacted and highly vulnerable Indians.
The first cases of swine flu have just been reported amongst Amazonian Indians, raising experts’ fears of a devastating contagion amongst peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.
Peru’s state oil company, Perupetro, has announced that its auction of new oil and gas exploration rights will take place later this year.
Peru’s government has announced that a control post protecting uncontacted tribes will start operating next month.