Francis lamented the pressure being exerted by great business interests that want to lay hands on its petroleum, gas, lumber, gold and industrial scale farming... READ MORE›
Francis lamented the pressure being exerted by great business interests that want to lay hands on its petroleum, gas, lumber, gold and industrial scale farming... READ MORE›
Pontiff addresses representatives of 400 indigenous groups in Peru saying Amazonicle-view.php?article=217551" class="read-more"> READ MORE›
An area lays deforested by illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios province of Peru, on Jan. 17, 2018... READ MORE›
Thousands of indigenous people had traveled to meet the pontiff from throughout the Amazon basin region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia... READ MORE›
Thousands of indigenous people had traveled to meet the pontiff from throughout the Amazon basin region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia... READ MORE›
Thousands of indigenous people had traveled to meet the pontiff from throughout the Amazon basin region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia... READ MORE›
REUTERS Alessandro Bianchi The pope also canonized 30 martyrs who were killed for their faith in Brazil in 1645... READ MORE›
Brazilian president has dissolved Renca to attract investment in region thought to contain gold with critics warning of irreversible damage... READ MORE›
Koenig, whose group works with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon... READ MORE›
Peru prohibits contact with the Mashco Piro and another dozen uncontacted tribes mainly because their immune systems carry little resistance to common illnesses... READ MORE›
While logging in the Mats's Indigenous Reserve is indeed controversial and the Amazon rainforest is shrinking, the Rainforest Protection Coalition does not exist... READ MORE›
A Canadian-headquartered company, Pacific Exploration and Production, has pulled out of a huge oil and gas concession overlapping a new national park in the Peruvian Amazon... READ MORE›
The loggers are crossing the border from Peru and mainly extracting cedar from territories used by indigenous peoples living in isolation, according to the NGOs... READ MORE›
The monkeys only live in a small part of the Amazon basin in Peru and Brazil... READ MORE›
David Hill Manu national park in Peru threatened by roads, oil gas operations, narco trade, goldmining, logging and 'human safaris'... READ MORE›
Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up Pandoras box of environmental impacts... READ MORE›
As indigenous leaders in states such as Amazonas have defected to Venezuela's opposition, the strains with the government have worsened... READ MORE›
Can contact really be controlled as such, which presumably means controlling the newly-contacted indigenous peoples too?... READ MORE›
Brazil's armed forces ejected hundreds of settlers from an indigenous reserve. A year later, outsiders are back... READ MORE›
The remarkable photos taken by Ricardo Stuckert of an uncontacted Amazon tribe reminded me of my own experience with the indigenous people of nearby Peru... READ MORE›
However, MINEM argues that a loophole in a 2012 Peruvian law makes it exempt from doing prior consultation on this occasion... READ MORE›
Two of the people in the canoe were consultants for Lima-based NGO DAR, which has dubbed the River Santiago Peru's last frontier for illegal mining... READ MORE›
The group being held in Mayuriaga includes three Petroperu officials, four with OEFA and a specialist with the energy and mines ministry, said Velasquez... READ MORE›
Moira Birss, from the non-profit organisation Amazon Watch, had also condemned the decree by the Temer administration... READ MORE›
Venezuela's El Nacional paper says that the military crew members were alive and will be transferred to the capital of Amazonas state, Puerto Ayacucho... READ MORE›
The environment is emerging as a new battleground for human rights, the report said... READ MORE›
According to the London-based tribes' rights NGO Survival International, there are 15 tribes living in voluntary seclusion in the Peruvian Amazon... READ MORE›
SERNANP ignores existence of indigenous peoples in isolation in order to prioritise economic rights, ran the title of an AIDESEP statement summarising ORPIO's April declaration... READ MORE›
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