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Houses built by the “Mashco-Piro”, one of numerous indigenous peoples living in “isolation” in the south-east Peruvian Amazon. Photograph: FENAMAD, AIDESEP, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz Perú

New highways in remote Amazon risk ‘ethnocide’, say Peruvians

24 Dic 2017 - 12:43

In December the Culture Minister sent a report to Galarreta calling the proposed law “not viable” and emphasising the potential impacts on the indigenous peoples in “isolation

Indigenous federation ORPIO delivered a letter this week to Peru’s Energy and Mines Minister Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani, requesting that two oil concessions in the Amazon are annulled. Photograph: Peru's Energy and Mines Ministry Perú

Peru urged to ban oil firms from isolated indigenous peoples' land

9 Oct 2017 - 00:06

The biggest dangers - in terms of outsiders entering their territories, exploiting resources and/or actively seeking contact - are oil and gas companies, loggers and logging..

‘El Cono’ in the Sierra del Divisor National Park in the Peruvian Amazon. Photograph: Thomas Muller Amazonía

Indigenous federation sues Peru over new national park

6 Feb 2017 - 09:10

Even more alarming is how the park has been divided into different zones by the Management Plan approved in November 2016. Instead of being a “strictly protected zone”...