International NGOs unite against oil giants
Region: Peru
Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru. Ama... more
Views: 1456Indians demand answers as Amazon is sold
Region: Peru
Peru’s latest Amazon auction has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their land was sold off to foreign oil companies last week. An open letter ... more
Views: 982UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
Region: Peru
Survival International is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimateuncontacted tribal people. ‘By permitting companies to operate in this r... more
Views: 1841US timber demand threatens uncontacted Peruvian tribe
Region: PeruIllegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC). The report says the logg... more
Views: 1400Obama urged to protect uncontacted tribes from oil pipeline
Region: Peru
President Obama has been urged to help protectPeru’s uncontacted tribeswhen he meets with Peruvian president Alan Garcia on 1 June. Survival has written to President Obama highlighting the threat posed... more
Views: 1316Global ad campaign for Peru’s uncontacted tribes
Region: Peru
An ad supporting Peru’slast uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through the Indians’ territory. T... more
Views: 1304Spanish oil giant targets uncontacted indians’ rainforest
Region: Peru
Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land i... more
Views: 1383Deadly pipeline threat to uncontacted tribes
Region: Peru
Anglo-French oil companyPerenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being builtto transport an estimate... more
Views: 2309(RAW QUAKE VIDEO) 8.8-Magnitude Quake Rocks Chile…Rising Death Toll, Tsunami Watch!!!
Region: ChileA A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Chile early this morning, killing at least 78 and prompting tsunami warnings in areas as far away as the western coast of the United States. Click Here To See RAW VIDEO o... more
Views: 2904Peru Hit By Heavy Rains and Mudslides
Region: Peru
On Tuesday January 26, after a rainy week and after three days of non-stop rainfall, the region of Cusco, Peru has been declared in a state of emergency for 60 days, in order to speed up the clean-up efforts and to help t... more
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