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Article

21 May 2010

Author:
David Hill, Survival International

Oil companies banned from uncontacted tribes’ reserve [Peru]

A reserve for uncontacted tribes in the remote Peruvian Amazon has been made off-limits to oil and gas companies...The reserve is inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted indigenous people, a tribe known as the Murunahua (or Chitonahua)...However, [Peruvian State oil company] Perupetro also announced it intends to open 25 new ‘lots’ for oil and gas exploration...This move has been immediately criticised by Peru’s national Amazon indigenous organisation, AIDESEP, who called it a ‘new provocation’ and a ‘new threat’ to Peru’s indigenous population. [also refers to Petrobras]