Photographs published last week of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil near the Peruvian border have provoked public outrage, with over 1,300 people writing letters to Peru’s government to demand an end to illegal logging.
An Indigenous federation that defends uncontacted tribes across South America has demanded that Peru’s government respects the rights and lives of uncontacted Indians living in the remote Peruvian rainforest.
Peru’s government has announced plans to investigate the plight of uncontacted Indians living in the remote Peruvian Amazon.
Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border.
A French company is locked in a legal battle with Amazon Indians over its plans to drill for oil in parts of the jungle inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. A hearing is due on 30 May.
Survival International this morning held a demonstration outside the London PR company FINSBURY, a subsidiary of global advertising company WPP.
Survival will protest tomorrow, Wednesday 28 May 2008, outside London PR firm FINSBURY (45 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AE) urging them to resign their account representing Anil Agarwal and his company Vedanta, in the interest of human rights.
Indians from the Enawene Nawe tribe mounted a blockade of a road bridge in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso on Sunday, to protest against a complex of dams to be built upriver from their land.