Fears are growing about the spread of cholera amongst tribal people in West Papua, Indonesia. Human rights and church workers report that in the last three months, 85 people have died from the disease.
Pope Benedict XVI met with two Brazilian Indians at the Vatican this morning, and pledged his support for their struggle to defend their Amazon home. He said, ‘We will do everything possible to help protect your land.’
The British journalist who wrongly reported that the story of an uncontacted tribe which has been known of for years had been ‘told and sold’ as if it had only just been discovered, has now threatened to sue Survival International.
The British newspaper The Observer claimed on 22 June that it has now ‘emerged’ that the uncontacted tribe whose photos received worldwide publicity were neither ‘lost’, nor 'undiscovered' nor ‘unknown’.
An extraordinary video released by the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR) and Survival International.
Two Brazilian Indians will arrive in London next week to make a desperate plea for help to save their Amazon forest home.
Spurred into action by a wave of international protest, a Peruvian government team is currently in a remote part of the Amazon investigating the plight of uncontacted Indians.
Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has urged the Peruvian government not to ‘wipe out uncontacted tribes’ living in the remote Peruvian rainforest.