Indigenous protesters rallied in Quito to demand the release of three leaders of the Amazonian Shuar people who they say are being framed in the death of a Shuar teacher killed by police.
The Hunt Oil-led consortium that operates Peru’s massive Camisea gas field is deadlocked in royalty talks with the government—raising questions about plans for massive expansion.
A new study in the journal Science indicates the growing frequency of severe droughts in the Amazon could make the world’s biggest rainforest a net emitter of greenhouse gases.
Brazil’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI) has released new photographs of an isolated tribe living in a remote rainforest region near the Peruvian border.
Brazil’s environmental agency IBAMA issued a construction permit for the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon—in a move called illegal by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has agreed to hear the land rights case of indigenous peoples in the Raposa-Serra do Sol region of the Brazil’s Roraima state.
As oil companies with pending contracts in the Peruvian Amazon continue to deny the existence of indigenous “peoples in isolation” in remote forest areas, new video evidence has emerged.
The CIA has released the full text of a 2008 report on the 2001 downing of a civilian plane in Peru, finding numerous procedural violations that “CIA officers knew of and condoned.”
Some 4,000 indigenous people ended their blockade of the Marañon River in northern Peru after reaching an agreement with the government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol.
Survival International is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations planned for the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal peoples in the area.
Indigenous organizations from Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, and issued a statement declaring a “state of emergency” throughout the Amazon due to industrial mega-projects.
Lizardo Cauper, president of Peru's alliance of Amazonian peoples, AIDESEP, issued an urgent call for authorities to open dialogue with indigenous communities in the northern region of Loreto rather than militarizing the area in response to mounting social conflicts and attacks on the North Peruvian Pipeline. Noting that the aging pipeline is in chronic disrepair, with repeated spills contaminating the rainforest, Cauper said: "We have made a call that, in place of militarization, they put in place a new pipeline. But it is not enough to have a new pipeline, but to respond to the demands of the people who are living around these oil activities." Regional authorities have called upon Lima to declare a state of emergency in response to paralysis of the pipeline, which delivers crude from rainforest oilfields over the Andes. (Photo: Andina)
