The Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales, from Soros Group, will open hundreds of seismic lines in over 700 square kilometers of virgin forest on this indigenous territory, in the border between Peru and Brazil.
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Middle Purus Indigenous will talk about land management in Brasilia
Representatives of Paumari people from River Tapauá, Jamamadi and Apurinã are in the Brazilian capital to talk about their experiences in territorial and environmental management.
Indigenous on Block 192: They don’t want new forty years of pollution
The Regional Government of Loreto, in Peru, called for a strike for next September 2 and 3, to protest the award of oil block 192 to the Canadian company Pacific Stratus Energy.
Photojournalism: Notes on a journey through the Caqueta River
The jungle that unites and separates Colombia with Brazil is a territory that lives on their own. A journalist traveled for three weeks by the river that connects the two countries, to tell how people live in this forgotten border.
Bolivia: Activists warn of environmental and social consequences of dam in El Bala
The social impact would be relevant because Tacana, esse ejas and tsimanes indigenous communities would be affected by the project as they would be expelled from their land and forced to migrate because of the flood that will be generated.
Colombia: Alarm for high levels of mercury in Amazonian ethnic groups
It is the highest level of intoxication that scientists have found in Colombia. According to toxicologist Jesus Olivero, the situation is so worrying that even the survival of these indigenous peoples would be at stake.
Colombian indigenous reserve gets big expansion after 20 years
The expansion of the Inga people’s Yunguillo Indigenous Reserve was first requested in 1983, but after 20 years of struggles, the efforts of those involved finally paid off as the reserve was quintupled from its original 4,320 hectares to 22,395 hectares.
The Aruka warrior and the survival of the Juma in the Amazon
Amazonia Real made a documentary about the life of the warrior Aruka and daughters. They commented the difficulties to survive in their traditional territory and the way they are raising their children, born of interethnic marriages with the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indians.
Gold from Yanomami land was sold by company in São Paulo, Brazil
The financial center of the country was the final destination of the gold mined illegally and smuggled out by a criminal organization that has devastated the people of the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in the State of Roraima.
Water is life for the Kichwa people of Sarayaku town, in Ecuador
In a video in Quechua language, the importance of water for the people of Sarayaku is shown. This one adds to a long and well-documented anti-extraction of oil, gas and minerals in their territory.