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25 Apr 2013

Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru’s uncontacted tribes

Survival International has held protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates, calling for an end to expansion of the Camisea gas project in Peru’s Amazon rainforest.
25 Mar 2013

UN demands ‘immediate suspension’ of Amazon gas plans

The United Nations has demanded an immediate halt to expansion of a gas project in the Peruvian Amazon, over concerns of the risk to lives of uncontacted Indians.
8 Jul 2010

Borneo tribe resists rainforest destruction with blockade

Nomadic tribespeople in Borneo are blockading a road to stop loggers destroying their rainforest, reports indigenous rights group Survival International.
29 May 2009

Amazon activist to bring climate change warning to Britain

An activist from the Yanomami people in the Amazon is to tell MPs at the Houses of Parliament that the world’s rainforests cannot be put under further pressure from multinational companies or illegal loggers and miners.
25 Jun 2008

Parliamentarians to hear Amazon forest plea from Brazilian tribes

Backed by Catholic aid agency CAFOD, two indigenous indians from Brazil have arrived in London this week to make an urgent plea to members of parliament for help to save their Amazon forest home.
14 Nov 2007

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