Peru:Government drops plans to open up uncontacted tribes’ reserves 8 May 2008Peru’s government has dropped plans to open up uncontacted Indians’ reserves to oil exploration. The latest round of concessions, announced this week, do not include any of the uncontacted Indians’ reserves.
Paraguay:Ayoreo Indian dies after first contact 7 May 2008A Paraguayan Indian, who lived without contact with the outside world until 1998, has died of tuberculosis. Survival has called his life, ‘a symbol of the fate of indigenous people in the Americas since Columbus’.
Botswana:Government urges public not to fund Survival 7 May 2008A Botswana government spokesperson has appealed to members of the public not to donate to Survival, because of its support for the Bushmen who were evicted from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve [CKGR].
Global:Biofuels threaten lands of 60 million tribal people 30 April 2008Demand for biofuels is destroying tribal peoples’ land and lives, according to indigenous representatives at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), meeting currently in New York.
Colombia:Isolated Indians targeted by rebels and army 28 April 2008One hundred and thirty Nukak Indians, some of the last nomadic Indians in the Amazon, have fled their rainforest homes after becoming caught up in Colombia’s civil war.
