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’.
Paraguay:Indians heartland at risk 20 April 2007The heartland of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin is at imminent risk of destruction.
Paraguay:Indians denounce illegal logging 27 July 2006A group of Ayoreo Indians has angrily condemned the landowners who are logging their territory illegally. Senior government officials have travelled to the Ayoreo's villages to investigate.
Paraguay:Some protection at last for Ayoreo territory 28 July 2005At a recent meeting in Paris, UNESCO approved a joint request by the Paraguayan government and supporters of the Ayoreo Indians to include a large area of Ayoreo forest in the new Chaco Biosphere Reserve.
