Twenty-one uncontacted Indians have been spotted from the air during a flight over one of the most remote parts of the Peruvian rainforest. Their territory is currently being targeted by illegal loggers.
Two companies planning to explore for oil in rainforest inhabited by uncontacted tribes have revealed plans to ‘communicate’ with them using megaphones if their oil crews are attacked.
Plans for the construction of a highway in one of the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon have been rejected by a local Indigenous organization because of the danger it poses to uncontacted tribes living there.
The top human rights body in Latin America, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), has demanded to know what the Peruvian government is doing to protect uncontacted tribes living in the remote Amazon.
Further evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing from Peru to Brazil because of illegal logging has been found by a Brazilian government official and uncontacted tribes expert.
A large group of uncontacted Indians has appeared in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest near the Peru-Brazil border, a Brazilian government official and expert on uncontacted tribes has reported.
Peru's Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP, has applied to the courts for oil exploration and drilling to be banned in parts of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted tribes.
A spokeswoman for Peru's state oil company, Perupetro, has questioned the existence of uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon by comparing them to the Loch Ness monster.