The Movement of People Harmed by Dams (MAB) protested in BelĂ©m, capital of Brazil’s Pará state, to demand the release of 18 people arrested when police broke up a sit-in at the TucuruĂ dam.
Kichua and Arabela tribesmen are blockading one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the RĂo Napo, to protest the violation of their land rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
At least 200 indigenous YashĂnanka and Yines occupied the airport in Atalaya, in Peru’s Amazonian area, to press demands for an end to the granting of local lands for mining and oil drilling.
Peru’s state oil company announced it will auction off up to twelve new “lots” for oil and gas exploration—including in reserves inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol is to enter territory inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous peoples in the Peruvian rainforest under an agreement reached this week.
In a landmark ruling, Brazil’s Supreme Court found that the Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous reserve in the northern Amazon should be maintained as a contiguous territory.
Ecuador’s government ordered closed the group AcciĂłn EcolĂłgica, days after it had called for sanctions against the consortium that operates the country’s trans-Andean oil pipeline.
Indigenous communities in the Ecuadoran Amazon are demanding sanctions against the consortium that runs the country’s trans-Andean pipeline following a massive oil spill.
The French firm Perenco, slated for a massive contract in Peru’s Amazon region, is having its income from oil revenues frozen in neighboring Ecuador following a tax dispute.
A group of 300 Awá hunter-gatherer nomads is fleeing from bulldozers in the Brazilian Amazon as their last forest is rapidly destroyed, Survival International reports.
At the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, President Rafael Correa was condemned by Ecuador’s national indigenous peoples’ organization CONAIE over his policy towards uncontacted Amazon tribes.
Illegal gold-miners shot dead a Yekuana indigenous leader and injured his son last week in the Brazilian state of Roraima. The two men had refused to take the miners up dangerous rapids into Yanomami country.
