South America

loggers attack indigenous Amazonians

rains — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:11:48 +0000

Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal loggers, according a statement from the International Indigenous Committee for the Protection of Peoples in Voluntary Isolation CIPIACI. The loggers have invaded the Murunahua Territorial Reserve, a remote area near the Brazilian border set aside in 1997 for uncontacted indigenous peoples, and built an illegal network of roads, the statement charges.

Uncontacted Indian tribe found in Brazil's Amazon

rains — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:47:29 +0000

An Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday.

The Metyktire tribe, with about 87 members, was found last week in an area that is difficult to reach because of thick jungle and a lack of nearby rivers some 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of Rio de Janeiro, said Mario Moura, a spokesman for the Federal Indian Bureau, or Funai.

The tribe is a subgroup of the Kayapo tribe, and lives on its 4.9-million-hectare (12.1-million-acre) Menkregnoti Indian reservation, Moura said.

BRAZIL: Indigenous Groups Defend Constitutional Right to Land

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:49:51 +0000

MIRANDA and ANTONIO JOAO, Brazil, Feb 29 (IPS) - Thousands of indigenous people in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are living in precarious camps or small overcrowded reservations, lacking the land they need to grow the food needed to overcome high levels of malnutrition.

But despite government recognition of their ancestral land, their claims are tied up in court. Meanwhile, their community leaders face the threat of being killed for attempting to secure respect for indigenous people’s constitutional right to their traditional lands.

Gloria Ushigua and Rosa Gualinga, two indigenous leaders, were attacked, in Puyo, Ecuador

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:24:13 +0000

Thu, 09/06/2007 - 09:16 Urgent Action - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Puyo, Ecuador: Gloria Ushigua and Rosa Gualinga, two indigenous leaders, were attacked on Sunday August 26, after months of receiving death threats for their efforts to protect the territory of the Zapara people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They were beaten until unconscious, thrown in the trunk of a car, and later, apparently, left for dead.

Peru's rainforest: oil and gas run through it

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:05:51 +0000

Indigenous groups are threatened as Peru gears up for an energy boom.

POROTOBANGO, PERU

Raised in palm huts deep in the Peruvian Amazon, Gregorio Torres never imagined that below his home was something called natural gas.

Now his Machiguengua Indian settlement in this rain-forest river clearing has solar-powered radio gifted by an international oil company, corrugated tin roofs, T-shirts with company logos, and a shelf of Western medicine.

But this incipient natural-gas boom is bringing new worries, too.

Threat to isolated indigenous group in Paraguay

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:58:21 +0000

For the last 15 years my family and I have been close to the Ayoreo in the Paraguayan Chaco. I wrote my thesis on their learning and knowledge-sharing practices, my brother is currently writing on their concept of territory and maps and my dad is working full time supporting the life projects of the Ayoreo Peoples as ethnical collectivity to be self-reliant in the context of modern society. More information here: www.iniciativa-amotocodie.org

Ayoreo Totobiegosode Campaign

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:27:03 +0000

Land purchase campaign for the yet uncontacted Indians in the Chaco Area of Paraguay by the Organisations Friends of People close to Nature (registered with the UN)

Dear Friends and Supporters,

MAYAN APPEAL

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:19:47 +0000

URGENT CALL FROM THE MAYAN ELDERS OF GUATEMALA
Through the ancient techniques of divination and tools of prophecy, the Mayan elders are calling forth to humanity at THIS TIME to pay closer attention to the messages being sent forth by the mother earth and to immediately take the actions they have been calling for, to unite in an effort to bring balance again upon our planet. The recent destruction that manifested in Indonesia is predicted to now occur rapidly upon five continents of the earth.

!!! FRANCE PLANS ETHNOCIDE

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:49:56 +0000

France plans the ethnocide on three indigenous tribes in French Guiana

Open protest letter to the Minister of Ecology and Sustainability, France
M. Serge Lepeltier (ministere@ecologie.gouv.fr)

France violates:
a) Article 8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity
b) Directive 76/464/EWG and Directive 80/86/EWG of the European Environmental Law.
c) Articles 1, 5 and 7 of the International Declaration about the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnical, Religious or Linguistic Minorities.

Action Alert! France plans the ethnocide of three indigenous tribes!

admin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:46:58 +0000

France plans the ethnocide of three indigenous tribes and account for the genocide on the Wayana indians in French-Guiana.
A report by Thierry Sallantin and "Friends of Peoples close to Nature".

FRANCE VIOLATES;
Article 8 of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Directive 76/464/EWG and Directive 80/86/EWG of the European Environmental Law.
Articles 1, 5 and 7 of the International Declaration about the Rights of Persons belonging to National or Ethnical, Religious or Linguistic Minorities.