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Peru's Indigenous People Win One Round Over Developers
World  (tags: world, peru, amazon, rainforest, indians, indigenous, people, human, rights, freedom, civil, liberty, politics, government, money, business, logging, hunting, fishing, habitat, destruction, environment, private, investment )

Tom
- 124 days ago - latimes.com
Private investment in the Amazon brought misery to its indigenous people. Logging and other activities ruined tribal lands and set off protests leading to the revocation of laws to further open the Amazon to outsiders. The Indians beat them by a knockout.
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Oil and Indians Don't MIx
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, alaska, amazon, conflict, corruption, crime, government, society, violence )

Kit
- 149 days ago - truthout.org
There's an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some Indians, then drill down under them. If the indigenous folk complain, well, just shoo them away. Shooing methods include: bulldozers...
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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 149 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
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Sign Petition: Tell Peru to Protect Indigenous Rights & Save The Amazon
World  (tags: world, violence, amazon, rainforests, indigenous, peoples, protesters, ecology, environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, conservation, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, protection, government, corruption, oil, gas, money, business, corporate, greed )

Tom
- 151 days ago - change.org
Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous for the global climate. Pres. Garcia responded with violence.
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Uphold Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon! - Sign AVAAZ Petition
World  (tags: Peru, Amazon, Amazon Rainforest, government, HumanRights )

Joanna
- 152 days ago - avaaz.org
Peru is witnessing violent clashes between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, who has pushed through legislation allowing intensive mining, logging and large scale farming in the rainforest. Please sign!
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Ancient Lost Settlement Found in Amazon
World  (tags: world, amazon, history, civilization )

Nelson
- 431 days ago - amazus.org
Through satellite images of the Amazon region scientists have discovered a settlement made of a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived in.
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Worlds Last Uncontacted Tribe
World  (tags: Amazon, brazil, tribe, last, uncontacted )

Djole
- 526 days ago - fun-genius.com
A fly-over of a remote part of the Amazon rainforest spotted members of what is believed to be one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.
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The Amazonian Tribe That Hid From the Rest of the World - Until Now
World  (tags: brazil, amazon, indigenous peoples, first contact )


- 528 days ago - independent.co.uk
Taken from a plane that was flying low over the canopy of the Amazon rainforest, a remarkable photograph that is the first proof of the existence of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes could play a vital part in ensuring their survival.
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Little-Known Tribe Spotted in Peru's Amazon
World  (tags: world, tribe, peru, amazon, rainforest )

Linda
- 770 days ago - gulf-times.com
Members of an Indian tribe are seen on a bank of a river in the jungle of Madre De Dios. A little-known nomadic Indian tribe has been spotted by ecologists in Peru's Amazon rainforest, carrying arrows for bows and staying in huts made of palm leaves...
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