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Article

9 Sep 2008

Author:
Survival International

Brazilian Indians slam oil company over uncontacted tribes [Peru]

Brazilian Indians have denounced plans by their country’s state oil company to explore for oil in the territory of uncontacted tribes in Peru. ‘We reject the conduct of…Petrobras...In our view, Petrobras’s intention to start exploring for oil and gas in the Peruvian Yurua River region, in a concession including indigenous communities and territory inhabited by uncontacted tribes, is in flagrant contradiction of its claims to social and environmental responsibility...and with laws...in our country,’ reads a statement by an organisation of Brazilian Indians, APIWTXA…APIWTXA points out that the area where Petrobras can explore…includes ‘almost all of the Murunahua Reserve’. This reserve was created in 1997 and is intended for the exclusive use of uncontacted Murunahua Indians…