News » Uncontacted Indians » August 2007

  • Cashinahua girl, River Curanja, Peru. 

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    Peru: Highway condemned because of uncontacted tribes
    30 August 2007 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.
  • Yaminahua girl, River Yurua, Peru.

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    Peru: Rights body pressures government on uncontacted tribes
    29 August 2007 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.
  • Recently-contacted Mastanahua man, River Curanja, Peru. 

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    Peru: More evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing
    21 August 2007 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.
  • Abandoned Mashco-Piro hut, Peru

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    Peru: Uncontacted tribes flee ‘red gold’ rush
    2 August 2007 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.