Worldwide Protests Demand Protection for Peru's Uncontacted Tribes

ICTMN Staff
April 23, 2013
In cities around the world today, Survival International supporters held protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates – seeking an end to the deadly expansion of the Camisea ...

Amazon Indigenous Groups Fight New Law That Would Allow Foreign Companies on Their Land

Darrin Mortenson
April 16, 2012
It has been said that oil and gas companies follow a bible of sorts here in the jungles of Peru, a universal playbook of their most effective methods for convincing locals that a p...

Isolated Mashco-Piro Tribe Sightings Come With a Risk

ICTMN Staff
January 31, 2012
A clan of Mashco-Piro Indians, a small tribe of previously isolated Amazon Indians in Peru, have been appearing along the riverbank in Madre de Dios with a message to tourists and ...

Findings Shed Light on Amazon’s Lost World

ICTMN Staff
January 16, 2012
On January 14, the New York Times published a story on land carvings discovered in the far western reaches of the Brazilian Amazon...

Uncontacted Tribes Facing Annihilation Without Protection

Barbara Fraser
October 14, 2011
When a photographer flying over the Amazon rain forest shot footage of naked adults and children in a jungle clearing, their bodies painted red and black, the images grabbed attent...

Uncontacted Tribe in Brazil Missing After Drug Traffickers Invade Area

Barbara Fraser
August 10, 2011
The Brazilian government sent security forces to a remote area near the border with Peru after armed men attacked a guard post set up to protect indigenous people living in isolati...

Uncontacted Tribe in Brazil Missing

ICTMN Staff
August 09, 2011
An uncontacted Indian Tribe, that was first discovered earlier this year, has since vanished from the jungles of the Brazilian Amazon in which they lived according to the New York ...

Nomadic Indigenous Groups Threatened in New Regulations

Barbara Fraser
July 19, 2011
After protests from indigenous and human rights groups, the Peruvian government took a step back from proposed new regulations that critics say would threaten nomadic indigenous gr...

Activists in Peru Denounce Plans for Uncontacted Native Lands

David Dudenhoefer
July 18, 2011
With less than two weeks left in office, the administration of Peruvian President Alan Garcia faces a new controversy over its treatment of uncontacted Natives in the country’s Ama...

Brazil Releases Photos of Uncontacted Native Community

David Dudenhoefer
June 25, 2011
Recently released aerial photos of an uncontacted community deep in the Brazilian rainforest offers the latest evidence of isolated Natives in the western Amazon Basin...

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