Loggers arrested after invading uncontacted tribes' land
Eighteen illegal loggers have been arrested on land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Ecuador, according to the El Comercio newspaper.
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Two more Indigenous leaders seek asylum
Two more of Peru’s most prominent Indigenous leaders have been forced to seek asylum after orders for their arrest were issued by a judge following violent clashes in the Peruvian Amazon last month.
Tourism threat to recently-contacted tribe – Fears of swine flu contagion
A court ruling in India has put one of the world’s most recently-contacted tribes at greater risk of the swine flu pandemic, according to campaigners.
Government ignores land rights ruling
The government of the Malaysian state of Sarawak is ignoring a recent court ruling recognizing the rights of the Penan and other tribes to their land, according to a leading Sarawak Indigenous rights lawyer.
Indigenous organisation says Ombudsman's report not 'definitive'
Peru’s leading Amazon Indigenous organisation has stated that the report by Peru’s Ombudsman on the recent violence in the rainforest is not ‘definitive’.
Ombudsman's report says 33 people died in Amazon violence
A report just published by Peru’s Ombudsman states that thirty-three people died in the recent violence in the Peruvian Amazon.
‘Cover-up’ storm over uncontacted tribes
An article in today’s Guardian newspaper alleges that a consultancy firm working for Anglo-French oil company Perenco ‘edited out’ evidence showing that uncontacted Indians are living in the area of the company’s project. The company has claimed that the
Destroyer of Penan’s forests given honorary knighthood
The founder and chairman of a Malaysian timber company that has logged the forests of the Penan tribe for decades has been given an honorary knighthood.