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Advocates say Canales Tahuamanu is violating laws that protect Indigenous peoples who choose to live in isolation. The company says it complies with all

“The territory is of vital importance to us. It guarantees us life and the lives of our future generations; it gives us food and medicine..."

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

Lima, Sep 14 (EFE).- Environmental organizations and indigenous leaders have warned about the risk to biodiversity and native communities if oil exploration and extraction begins in the site known as MD-XP-001, located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The site, according to the organization Rights, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), is among 31 areas …

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Yet a lawmaker has put forward a bill proposing to modify that law, a move anthropologists, Indigenous activists and leaders say would threaten legal safeguards for the PIACI and could lead to existing reserves for them being revoked. The proposal, made in November by congressman Jorge Morante of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, aims to modify the 2006 law to transfer responsibility for protecting isolated people and authority to create reserves from Peru's culture minis...

A "Genocidal Bill" is being cosidered in Peru's Congress, which could wipe out uncontacted tribes across the nation.

Malocas (communal houses) of uncontacted people in the Isconahua Indigenous Reserve, 2015. © Melissa Medina, IBC A new bill now being considered in Peru’s Congress, described by Survival International as “a naked land grab by the oil and gas industry and their cronies”, could wipe out the country’s uncontacted tribes, Indigenous organizations and experts have warned.

Selling credits should fund forest protection, but unscrupulous firms are making deals where local land stewards lose out, say Indigenous leaders

After a 19-year process, uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous peoples living in the Napo-Tigre region of the Peruvian Amazon have had their existence officially recognized. With an extensive anthropological study and a presidential decree supporting evidence of their presence in the area, the communities are now one step closer to being protected through the creation […]