The Tabajara Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) project will create a 60-square-mile reservoir in Machadinho d’Oeste. In addition to nine indigenous territories, an exclusive joint analysis by InfoAmazonia and Brasil de Fato confirms the influence of the project on seven areas where evidence of uncontacted indigenous groups has been found.
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Javari Valley, Brazil: Conflict of uncontacted indigenous group with Matis
Matís say are living in uncertainty after the deaths of two indigenous in Korubo attack at the end of 2014, and that Funai is not knowing mediate the case.
COP21: Amazon fire destroying rare forest home of uncontacted tribe
Wildfires are raging through the Brazilian Amazon, destroying vast areas of forest on the eastern fringes of the “earth’s lungs”. Isolated indigenous suffer even more.
National Geographic: New Photos of Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Stir Uproar
Isolated tribal nomads are at risk as logging pressure mounts in the Amazon rain forest.
Starts the extermination of the last uncontacted peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Huaorani warrior admits having directed killing of five Taromenane nomads in inter-ethnic war encouraged by logging and oil companies that try to invade the Indian Territory Yasuni National Park.
Video evidences that isolated indigenous Murunahuas are not extinct
Park rangers found six shelters made of palm trees, campfire remains and animal bones, in banks of Yurúa river, near to the Alto Purus National Park.
Government of Ecuador investigates attack between indigenous in the Amazon
The attack was among Huaorani indigenous and uncontacted group (in voluntary isolation) called taromenane near Yasuni National Park.