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Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes - Survival International

4.2.11

Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into actionSuccess: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes - Survival International: "Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border.

The move is the first success of Survival’s campaign to protect the uncontacted Indians of the Peru-Brazil border.

Global coverage of the newly-released photos made public this week has pushed the Peruvian government into action.

In a statement released February 2nd, Peru’s Foreign Ministry announced that they will ‘establish contact with Brazil’s FUNAI institute [Department of Indian Affairs]… to preserve these peoples and avoid the incursion of illegal loggers and the depredation of the Amazon.’"


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