tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41185665866407239152024-03-12T22:58:05.750-07:00The Autumn of the AmazonHarrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-74387534861103708852022-11-23T12:45:00.004-08:002022-11-23T12:45:32.456-08:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDChLsChZq28dr0Mwx977MXZmP-EHg37YuEafXA3nffK9rCaJ3aMlSqjj-uXB5XNXXWhnwqnQSiXBZgYhHE930g83_jE7wrA4JJqIbyFdzSE364mz08vdFAlcCi0mrixB-NDB1Sc3qKi42LXBQmf3zlfRa6_J3iOouNjxATuyXKJTetE3UaqHB_EEc/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-23%20at%203.43.35%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="858" height="640" 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an all time high<p><br /></p><p>THE GUARDIAN </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/record-after-record-brazils-amazon-deforestation-hits-april-high-nearly-double-previous-peak">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/record-after-record-brazils-amazon-deforestation-hits-april-high-nearly-double-previous-peak</a></p><p><br /></p><p> <a class="content__label__link dcr-yx39j8" data-component="section" data-link-name="article section" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/brazil" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: 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Bolsonaro argues that more farming and mining in the Amazon will reduce poverty in the region.</p><p class="dcr-xry7m2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">“The cause of this record has a first and last name: Jair Messias Bolsonaro,” said Marcio Astrini, head of Brazilian advocacy group Climate Observatory, in a statement. Bolsonaro’s office directed questions to the ministries of environment and justice.</p><figure class=" dcr-1mfia18" data-spacefinder-role="richLink" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement" id="c7c9cbc5-d341-4a17-8a6e-56ce9a7a9f7e" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 20px 4px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 140px;"><gu-island data-gu-ready="true" deferuntil="idle" name="RichLinkComponent" props="{"richLinkIndex":7,"element":{"_type":"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/deforestation-in-brazils-amazon-rises-by-more-than-a-fifth-in-a-year","text":"Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon at highest level since 2006","prefix":"Related: ","role":"richLink","elementId":"c7c9cbc5-d341-4a17-8a6e-56ce9a7a9f7e"},"ajaxUrl":"https://api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk","format":{"display":0,"theme":0,"design":0}}" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="css-16cuuq6" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-7 | 7" data-name="" data-print-layout="hide" style="background-color: #c70000; 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font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Even with deforestation already on the rise, Climate Observatory said its analysts were astounded by such a high reading in April, which is part of the rainy season when the muddy forest is harder for loggers to access.</p><p class="dcr-xry7m2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Preservation of the Amazon is vital to stopping catastrophic climate change because of the vast amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide it absorbs.</p><div aria-hidden="true" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1 ad-slot--rendered" data-desktop="1,1|2,2|300,250|300,274|fluid" data-google-query-id="CO2F2earzvcCFRFXhwod2BQD9g" data-link-name="ad slot inline1" data-mobile="1,1|2,2|300,197|300,250|300,274|fluid" data-name="inline1" data-phablet="1,1|2,2|300,197|300,250|300,274|fluid" id="dfp-ad--inline1" style="border: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">Ane Alencar, science director of the Amazon Environmental Research Institute , said she had expected deforestation to keep rising ahead of the October presidential election, like it has in Brazil’s past three election years, as officials wary of angering voters generally do less to enforce the law. Still, she called the surge in deforestation last month “absurd.”</p><p class="dcr-xry7m2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;">“It seems that the clearing of forests has become institutionalised in the country as something common, with record after record,” Alencar said.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></figure></div></div></div>Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-8161827002027925012022-01-28T01:54:00.003-08:002022-01-28T13:45:43.396-08:00The Hidden Way an Illustrated novel by Harrison Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdta1MpLe5qLfVtBNdibW355mYazNT73dNwddzL2hjePT-YcLJIMeDz38m1WKEbQR4832BqHAtRNhRGYm3fAzPljUVqCImskuIVFCqVfmbDEfBI4XhjWM2SFNwdR322S_cx9znwxDiP-mA5OFlfhsiT0tr9htgpOSuF2TVlaumY2XdBuuVuThTKW9E=s2552" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2552" data-original-width="1791" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdta1MpLe5qLfVtBNdibW355mYazNT73dNwddzL2hjePT-YcLJIMeDz38m1WKEbQR4832BqHAtRNhRGYm3fAzPljUVqCImskuIVFCqVfmbDEfBI4XhjWM2SFNwdR322S_cx9znwxDiP-mA5OFlfhsiT0tr9htgpOSuF2TVlaumY2XdBuuVuThTKW9E=w450-h640" width="450" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-way-harrison-macdonald-love/1140913984" target="_blank">“The Hidden Way,”</a> an illustrated novel by Harrison Macdonald Love is now available for purchase at Barnes and Noble. This has been a passion project in the works for many years. If you click on the BOOK SECTION tab on this website you will find some of the illustrations and writing samples from The Hidden Way.</p><p>Here is the link to place your order. Please do let me know if you need a discount.</p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-way-harrison-macdonald-love/1140913984" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a></p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-way-harrison-macdonald-love/1140913984">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hidden-way-harrison-macdonald-love/1140913984</a></p><p><br /></p><p>#yafiction #indigenous #mythsandlegends #bookclub #bookrecommendations.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hidden Way</p><p>@thehiddenwaybook</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hidden Way follows the journey of two characters and they proceed into the depths of the Amazon Jungle to seek out the sacred knowledge of the Lost Tribes. 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Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back – incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of the world's greatest rainforest and its most endangered tribe, the Awá.</div>
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Yet as they travelled through the jungle early this year, the small team from Funai – <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/brazil" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Brazil">Brazil</a>'s National Indian Foundation – did not dare try to stop the loggers; the vehicle was too large and the loggers were almost certainly armed. All they could do was video the lorry and add the film to the growing mountain of evidence showing how the Awá – with only 355 surviving members, more than 100 of whom have had no contact with the outside world – are teetering on the edge of extinction.</div>
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It is a scene played out throughout the Amazon as the authorities struggle to tackle the powerful illegal logging industry. But it is not just the loss of the trees that has created a situation so serious that it led a Brazilian judge, José Carlos do Vale Madeira, to describe it as "a real genocide". People are pouring on to the Awá's land, building illegal settlements, running cattle ranches. Hired gunmen – known as<em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">pistoleros</em> – are reported to be hunting Awá who have stood in the way of land-grabbers. Members of the tribe describe seeing their families wiped out. Human rights campaigners say the tribe has reached a tipping point and only immediate action by the Brazilian government to prevent logging can save the tribe.</div>
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This week <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Survival International</a> will launch a new campaign to highlight the plight of the Awá, backed by Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth. In a video to be launched on Wednesday, Firth will ask the Brazilian government to take urgent action to protect the tribe. The 51-year-old, who starred in last year's hit movie <em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The King's Speech,</em> and came to prominence playing Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of <em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pride and Prejudice</em>, delivers an appeal to camera calling on Brazil's minister of justice to send in police to drive out the loggers.</div>
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The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gathering tribes left in the Amazon. According to Survival, they are now the world's most threatened tribe, assailed by gunmen, loggers and hostile settler farmers.</div>
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Their troubles began in earnest in 1982 with the inauguration of a European Economic Community (EEC) and World Bank-funded programme to extract massive iron ore deposits found in the Carajás mountains. The EEC gave Brazil $600m to build a railway from the mines to the coast, on condition that Europe received a third of the output, a minimum of 13.6m tons a year for 15 years. The railway cut directly through the Awá's land and with the railway came settlers. A road-building programme quickly followed, opening up the Awá's jungle home to loggers, who moved in from the east.</div>
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It was, according to Survival's research director, Fiona Watson, a recipe for disaster. A third of the rainforest in the Awá territory in Maranhão state in north-east Brazil has since been destroyed and outsiders have exposed the Awá to diseases against which they have no natural immunity.</div>
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"The Awá and the uncontacted Awá are really on the brink," she said. "It is an extremely small population and the forces against them are massive. They are being invaded by loggers, settlers and cattle ranchers. They rely entirely on the forest. They have said to me: 'If we have no forest, we can't feed our children and we will die'."</div>
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But it appears that the Awá also face a more direct threat. Earlier this year an investigation into reports that an Awá child had been killed by loggers found that their tractors had destroyed the Awá camp.</div>
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"It is not just the destruction of the land; it is the violence," said Watson. "I have talked to Awá people who have survived massacres. I have interviewed Awá who have seen their families shot in front of them. There are immensely powerful people against them. The land-grabbers use <em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">pistoleros</em> to clear the land. If this is not stopped now, these people could be wiped out. This is extinction taking place before our eyes."</div>
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What is most striking about the Funai undercover video of the loggers – apart from the sheer size of the trunks – is the absence of jungle in the surrounding landscape. Once the landscape would have been lush rainforest. Now it has been clear-felled, leaving behind just grass and scrub and only a few scattered clumps of trees.</div>
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Such is the Awá's affinity with the jungle and its inhabitants that if they find a baby animal during their hunts they take it back and raise it almost like a child, to the extent that the women will sometimes breastfeed the creature. The loss of their jungle has left them in a state of despair. "They are chopping down wood and they are going to destroy everything," said Pire'i Ma'a, a member of the tribe. "Monkeys, peccaries, tapir, they are all running away. I don't know how we are going to eat – everything is being destroyed, the whole area.</div>
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"This land is mine, it is ours. They can go away to the city, but we Indians live in the forest. They are going to kill everything. Everything is dying. We are all going to go hungry, the children will be hungry, my daughter will be hungry, and I'll be hungry too."</div>
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In an earlier interview with Survival, another member of the tribe, Karapiru, described how most of his family were killed by ranchers. "I hid in the forest and escaped from the white people. They killed my mother, my brothers and sisters and my wife," he said. "When I was shot during the massacre, I suffered a great deal because I couldn't put any medicine on my back. I couldn't see the wound: it was amazing that I escaped – it was through the Tupã [spirit]. I spent a long time in the forest, hungry and being chased by ranchers. I was always running away, on my own. I had no family to help me, to talk to. So I went deeper and deeper into the forest.</div>
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"I hope when my daughter grows up she won't face any of the difficulties I've had. I hope everything will be better for her. I hope the same things that happened to me won't happen to her."</div>
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The Survival campaign reflects growing international concern over the plight of the world's remaining indigenous tribes. Earlier this year the<em style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Observer </em>revealed how police were colluding with tour operators in India's Andaman Islands to run human safaris into the jungle heartland of the protected Jarawa tribe. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/07/andaman-islanders-human-safari-video" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">A video showing half-naked Jarawa women and girls dancing</a> in return for food caused outrage in India and around the world. Further revelations followed, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/29/bonda-jarawa-orissa-andaman-tour" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">exposing human safaris in Orissa</a>, in India, and in Peru, where tour operators are <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/26/human-safari-threat-amazon-tribe" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">profiting from the exploitation of Amazon jungle tribes</a>.</div>
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Meanwhile, drug traffickers are posing a threat to other Amazon tribes. Last year a previously uncontacted tribe was photographed from the air close to the Peru-Brazil border only to go missing a few months later after a gang of drug traffickers overpowered guards protecting their land.</div>
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The Brazilian embassy in London referred requests for a response to the president's Human Rights Secretariat, which did not respond. However, Brazil has recently been able to point to research that shows it has been making progress in tackling illegal logging. The country's National Institute for Space Research estimates that 6,238 sq km of rainforest was lost between 2010 and 2011, down dramatically from the 2004 peak of 27,700 sq km. The same year, Brazil pledged to cut<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/deforestation" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Deforestation">deforestation</a> by 80% by 2020.</div>
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The year-on-year fall last year was 11% and in March Brazil's forestry department raided and closed down 14 illegal sawmills on the borders of the Awá's land. Even so, the figures also show that two states recorded sharp rises in deforestation, and illegal logging is destroying the Awá's jungle at a faster rate than that of any other Amazon tribe.</div>
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In a statement, Survival urged the Brazilian government to give more support to Funai and to increase its efforts to shut down illegal activities in the Awá's territories. "Timing is crucial, and the timing of this is now, because while all hope is not lost an entire people are on the verge of being lost, most critically the uncontacted Awá. And we have a moral responsibility to act. EU and World Bank money has helped fund huge projects in Brazil that have exploited the Awá's land resources and made infrastructure ripe for developers."</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Feb. 2009: Walking down the road
divider, a 5am sunrise, on the way into town. Dust kicking up from the
moto-taxis passing by with wide eyed drivers, gawking at the sore thumb caught
in the light of the rising sun. Long shadows from the early flight of horned
vultures stretch across the wet tire tracks. There is the sound of the world
coming alive all about the dead concrete, barreling through the ancient jungles
of Peru, in line with Ucayali River gulping cold water from the melting
snowcaps of the Andes. Pucallpa, is a dangerous town; stories of hostage taking
terrorists and drug smugglers. Peddlers and pushers with calloused knuckles who
prefer to dine upon backpackers with big "take me" signs fastened to
themselves, weighing them down, bulging from their backs; like a meaty drum
stick dancing in front of starved hounds. But in fact it is more dangerous to
trust a foreigner in this place, because most come for a reason; one with many
prepackaged explanations. The natives are happy and proud, fully aware and
accepting of their neighbors and fully accustomed to lending a hand where it is
needed. Only from the relatively recent influence of consumer culture have their
hands sought the feel of money in exchange for kindness. But there are still
many who know virtue in their blood. I was lucky enough to find such kindness,
a CT townie with a pocket full of lucky charms and a knife securely fastened to
the hip, a walking contradiction in a place where people come to never be
found. I wanted this kind of solitude, for it is only in the places where man
ceases to be a man that he truly knows himself. Four hours by taxi down a white
sand and red clay road, to catch a boat, two hours down river, then one hour
walking up and down hills, deeper and deeper into the hot breast of the Amazon.
Going to meet a hidden teacher; the student seeks words with a sort of
infinite; greater than an echo, an incongruous conversation with the id.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Oct. 2005: It was my second year in art
college. I'm at Borders looking through the art section for books that might
fit under my shirt or in my bag. I come upon a book, "The Cosmic
Serpent," by Jeremy Narby, shelved incorrectly, wedged between Lucian
Freud and Art Through the Ages. I would buy this book and it would lead me to
ask questions, to shrug off the predictable, and embrace the implausible. A
confection of curiosity and wonder would take over my cerebellum and cause me
to finger through every article I could find about Peruvian mythology and
cultural heritage. It became a hobby to be anthropologic, a hidden love shared
only in passing fancy with those of an elite knowing. First priorities:
painting, graduating, finding a job, besting my friends and their summer and
after school plans. All else eclipsed by the need to learn the things that are
not taught in common institutional circles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Sept. 2006: An isolated tribe, never
previously contacted, is discovered in the Eastern Peruvian Amazon by a
helicopter crew surveying a newly purchased area of rainforest, now under the
ownership of Peruanco Oil (French owned, Peruvian sounding). No permission, nor
discussion of sale took place between the indigenous peoples of the area and
the oil company, which was trying its damnedest to hide the news of the
uncontacted tribe from the global public. Claiming that the tribe was nomadic
and often went back and forth between Brazil and Peru, this was a cunning
attempt to avoid governmental interference, and to skirt the issue of the
tribes presence and importance. However, due to national exposure the issue
went global. Peruanco, along with several other oil companies discovered oil in
the Amazon; it is the biggest discovery in the region in the past 30 years. Still
untapped, no one can be sure exactly what is under the soil. It should be
common knowledge, that in the presence of any major commodity (diamonds, gold,
oil, etc.) cultural preservation, the preservation of life, all of morality
itself falls in the wake of progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">There are many examples of this but my
favorite comes from Lima, Peru itself, in the early 20th century when the
president of Peru, searching for hidden treasures to boost the national
economy, dynamited the temple of Pachacamac, the great temple of the earthquake
god, (the biggest temple nearest to Lima). Nothing was found and, once he
stepped down, the government spent millions of dollars repairing the damage.
This is an example of cultural pluralism, which occurs when one culture adopts some
of the traits of another culture because they see benefit in their inclusion.
Unfortunately the insidious trait absorbed by Peru through years of suffering,
betrayal and genocide, was that of greed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">Oct. 2006: I am convinced that the
indigenous population of the Eastern Peruvian Amazon will meet with an
unfortunate demise at the hands of an obese oil-consuming culture. Fear for the
livelihood of the shimmering virtuous cultures I had come to love gripped me in
a moment of clear moral choice. No one I knew, cared enough, knew enough, nor
had the determination or grit to explore this road. I would make my plans
through restless nights, trying to tongue the borders of the path ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">More details came in, the uncontacted
tribe is perhaps 100 souls or fewer. The oil company had settled with the
Peruvian government on buying a 2 million dollar plane to scan for heat
signatures in the jungle tracking the tribes movement. The sole responsibility
of monitoring the tribe is set upon the oil company and the lobbyists breeding
in the local bureaucracy. It seemed inevitable that the tribe would be lost. I
would seek only to learn more about tribes like these so that I could somehow
preserve some fragment of their cultural heritage before the double tailed coin
toss that would decide their future for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">March 2008: Made contact with an
advertising agency in Lima which will help me build my living from the $1000 I
have left in my bank account. For the next 6 months I will learn Spanish from
nothing but a knowledge of the pronunciation of numerals. I will lend a
fraction of my soul to the Devil so that my better nature can keep track of
what we ad men feed the public; I would rather it be me than someone who values
money over what exactly goes into baby formula. I do the job well but after
Christmas I leave to pursue a deeper understanding of my fate. I travel one
hour north by plane to the only accessible landing strip on the border of the
Amazon, then three days by boat. With my Spanish I speak to many wise men,
tribal leaders that have grown weary of the outside world's encroaching duality
and corruption. In me they seem to find a renewed confidence in the good nature
of the human spirit, even though I am not the first idealist gringo to cross
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">April 2009- Road blocks have been set
up by some of the locals to hinder the transportation of drill equipment into
the jungle. Although it hardly makes much difference to a road battered and
broken by the summer storms. Whole cliff faces ride the landslide damming
rivers that provide water to smaller villages miles away. Juan Flores (A Tribal
Leader of the Shipibo)-"But what else can we do? Those bastards never even
asked us if they could use our land. They never came to any of us to tell us
what they found and they sure as Hell weren't going to share the profits with
poorer residents. They just came and found the oil and immediately, production
of the rig and drills began. It isn't just the oil companies, it is our own
government that is stepping on its people, turning their backs on the very
thing that makes this country great. They are taking away that last untouched
piece of wonder. One of the last places where anything is sure to happen."
As I observed Flores, the rain poured down the sides of the thatched hut. The
sound of the overflowing hot water spring running down the mountain. The flames
of the oil lamps describing the shape of a man from a different world, peering
out through the dark night into my eyes and feeling a deep respect from my
colloquial silence. He brushes the brightly colored feathers of the Macaw laid
out on the floor to one side to get within personal distance. He extends his
leathery hands out into the lamp light requesting my hands in response. I give
over both and feel the surprising softness and gentle nature of the man.
"Do you have any questions for me?" And although I wanted to ask him
about how he came to be in this place far from the sound of people; of how he
came to be. I simply said, "I have nothing to ask for nothing is owed me.
I have only my thanks to give along with an apology, reserved for whomever may
wrong you or cause wrong without giving reason or cause. I give this to you so
that you may more easily forgive. A wise man (Ghandi) once said, 'the seeker of
truth must be humbler than the dust.'"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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slipped his right hand between mine and with as much honor as can be shared
between men, he firmly shook my hand. I would not say goodbye to him when I
would leave for town in the morning. I would only be told by the man driving
the boat up river that Juan had requested that I return whenever I felt that I
had to, an invitation only given to those of the most amiable quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">May 2009- There are now three oil
companies moving to occupy sections of the Amazon where their rigs will drink
the blood of the land. When one takes a stone from the ground, there is a whole
that remains; a cavity that can be filled with dirt, fashioned so as to make
believe that there was nothing absent. But the fact remains that once there was
a rock that need not be disturbed, where our eyes can forget but our mind
remembers. I think to myself, when this is done the value of that culture that
stands in the way of progress may be quantified in mathematical terms. Suffice
to say that I will feel an emptiness when they are gone. I will have wished to
recognize to another the great value found within the meek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">June 2009- Returning home to
Connecticut, where my stomach cries patriotic tears of joy as I enjoy two
bottles of Cottrell while wolfing down my first hamburger in more than a year.
News of Peru has hit the global circuit: The road blocks that have persisted in
the northern territories of Peru have provoked the local government to
violence. Twenty five civilians are shot and killed by the local police, 10
policemen are taken hostage by the angered mob. Unconfirmed reports of the
several tribal leaders under attack. Juan's name is among the list. The
President of Peru has issued a statement calling the people that are preventing
the transportation of supplies to the oil rigs, "terrorists," and has
called for immediate action to resolve the now public issue regarding
indigenous land rights. Days later, the government of Peru, under international
duress changed its rhetoric and for now has checked its action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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routine in the world of the clock that divides my life into quarters and
halves. Walking down the still streets of New London catching stray glances at
the bar rabble let out from the dry saloons. Following the rain run off down
the hill to a two hour parking spot wedged between the alley and a tilted building.
I look over at the train platform and see four people under the cover of a
canopy speaking familiar Spanish. They see me and quiet themselves, giving
worried glances. I yell, "habla pe!" Shocked for a moment they then
return to comfort. I ask them where they are from and they say that they are
from Leoncio Prado and Campo Serio. Two relatively remote villages in the
Amazon near the areas where the riots have occurred. One man does not respond.
He hangs his head and shakes his wet coat up from his shoulders. There is a
shared look then the group all adopt the man's posture. It seems the memory of
that once better place disrupted the momentary pleasure of reconnecting to a
bit of home. I say goodnight, turn and leave. I pass them on route to the
highway once more and nod goodbye. I catch the on ramp to 95N and wonder if my
life in Peru was all fiction, and then I think that maybe someday it will be
easier to think that it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">I am only an artist. But I believe that
the purpose of art has changed many times throughout history as art has become
more commoditized. Originally art was our first language, it was our first and
greatest tool for teaching and guiding our culture. Its inherent value has
followed us through our entire evolution. We must not forget this function.
Artists must take responsibility again and guide our culture by questioning the
foundation of those systems that have governed us so far in the direction of
greed, and self destruction. And we must preserve our sources of inspiration as
much as we seek to inspire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">-written by Harrison Love</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-22888072971195911822011-02-14T23:10:00.000-08:002011-02-14T23:10:17.891-08:00Chevron fines $8 million for Ecuador Oil Spill<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/14/2066442/lawyer-judge-fines-chevron-8-billion.html">http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/14/2066442/lawyer-judge-fines-chevron-8-billion.html</a></div>Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-13730910076271016922010-09-06T09:50:00.001-07:002010-09-06T09:50:50.970-07:00Amazon becoming increasingly less habitable due to cultural overlaphttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302302.htmlHarrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-36622917645401569622010-06-14T21:22:00.001-07:002010-07-07T02:16:46.432-07:00New Developments in the ongoing Oil Crisis<a accesskey="1" href="http://www.racewire.org/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Racewire Blog" border="0" height="111" hspace="0" src="http://www.racewire.org/images/racewire_logo_main.gif" vspace="0" width="236" /></a><br />
<div id="blog" style="padding-left: 25px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="content" style="border-top-color: rgb(207, 206, 147); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 23px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 20px;"><h3 style="color: #999966; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 11px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.racewire.org/archives/author/michelle-chen/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">MICHELLE CHEN</a></h3><h2 id="a003881" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Oil crisis: uprisings from Nigeria to Peru</h2><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">In the past few days, the wars over the world’s natural resources have been rekindled from the Amazon to the Niger Delta.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">This week, a <a href="http://wiwavshell.org/wiwa-v-shell-victory-settlement/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">landmark legal settlement</a> brought a decisive, though partial, end to a bloody chapter in the history of Nigeria’s Ogoni people.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">Shell agreed to a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$15.5 million settlement in a lawsuit</a>, brought in US federal court, accusing the company of massive human rights abuses. The case stemmed from the government executions of activists, including groundbreaking environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who resisted the company’s decades-long plunder of Nigeria’s natural resources. Although Shell did not officially acknowledge its complicity, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which helped litigate the suit, called the settlement a victory in the broader movement to hold corporations accountable on human rights.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">Oil and gas development in the Niger Delta has <a href="http://wiwavshell.org/shell%E2%80%99s-environmental-devastation-in-nigeria/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">devastated the region’s fragile ecosystem</a> and left indigenous peoples in deep poverty.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">About one third of the settlement award will go toward a <a href="http://wiwavshell.org/documents/Wiwa_v_Shell_TRUST_DEED.pdf" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">development fund for the Ogoni people</a>. But some,<a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/200906100520.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports the Daily Independent of Lagos</a>, were dismayed that the legal maneuver seems to have spared the company—with its deep history of imperialism and exploitation—from being fully brought to justice. One Ogoni activist expressed worry that the payout will not be primarily used to restore and provide closure to the Ogoni as a whole: “We are still waiting to see how events unfold. It is not only the Ogoni Nine that died in the struggle, and it will be a disaster if anybody thinks otherwise.”</div><div id="a003881more"><div id="more"><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">There are already opportunities to test whether <em>Wiwa v. Shell </em>marks a real turning point in environmental and human rights struggles.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">In Peru's Bagua Province, a popular uprising has led to bloodshed and political chaos. <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0611/p06s06-woam.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Indigenous groups have protested</a> against investment laws that threaten to carve up more of the Amazon rainforest for drilling and logging operations. After thousands tried to blockade an oil pipeline and highway last week, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8090548.stm" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a deadly clash with riot police</a> led to the deaths of 30 protesters and 24 police officers, according to the BBC.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">Some activists say police have stolen and dumped bodies in the Marañón river in a cover-up attempt,<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47188" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports IPS News</a>. The government, meanwhile, continues its military clampdown, and publicly blames the violence on the <a href="http://www.coica.org.ec/ingles/members/aidesep.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Peruvian Rainforest Inter-Ethnic Development Association (AIDESEP)</a>, a broad federation of indigenous groups. AIDISEP leader Alberto Pizango has sought refuge with the Nicaraguan embassy in Lima.</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">The protesters were reportedly armed with spears, against the guns of the police. <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47188" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Edwin Montenegro</a>, an activist representing the Amazon district of Condorcanqui, told IPS:</div><blockquote style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><em>"After we draw up a list of our brothers and sisters who were killed, we will continue our protes... The government thinks that we have chickened out, but that will never happen. The blood of their brothers and sisters is an incentive to the Awajun people. The state has provoked us.”</em></blockquote><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;">With domestic politics taking center stage in Washington, the strife in Bagua may seem distant. But the investment policies, some of which <a href="http://amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=1849" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">have been suspended in the wake of the protests</a>, are part of Peru's effort to facilitate a <a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org/peru.php" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lucrative business deal</a> <a href="http://www.stopperufta.org/?page=WhatsWrong" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">with the United States</a>, <a href="http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2009/january/statement-us-trade-representative-susan-c-schwab--0" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the Peru Free Trade Agreement</a>.<br />
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Will the <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090609_the_free_markets_marked_men/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">future of indigenous struggles</a> be channeled into legal battlegrounds, as with the Shell lawsuit—or will the failure of government to provide real redress <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0611/p06s01-woam.html" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">inspire more direct action</a> in defense of basic rights? A federal courtroom rendered one kind of victory for some of the most disenfranchised people in the Niger Delta. Would Congress go a step further in opening a space for human rights in the Amazon?</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;"><em>Image: <a href="http://amazonwatch.org/newsroom/view_news.php?id=1843" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">Amazon Watch</a></em></div></div></div></div></div>Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-13757283573800628662009-10-14T22:30:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:30:24.384-07:005 June 2009 - Source - New York Times<h1> <nyt_headline _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> Fatal Clashes Erupt in Peru at Roadblock </nyt_headline> </h1><script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
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</div></div></div></div><a href="" name="secondParagraph"></a> Initial accounts of the clashes varied. Indigenous leaders here said the killings unfolded early on Friday after the police fired from helicopters on hundreds of protesters who had blocked the highway in the northern Bagua Province, with at least 22 civilians killed. The Chachapoyas Medical Association, in the region where the killings took place, put the number of dead Indians at 25.<br />
Peru’s interior minister, Mercedes Cabanillas, said the police did not initiate the bloodshed but were “victims of the frenzy.” Prime Minister Yehude Simon said Friday night that 11 police officers and 3 Indians had been killed, and that 38 police officers and a civilian engineer were abducted by the protesters.<br />
The protests are part of an increasingly well-orchestrated campaign by indigenous groups that have been inspired in part by similar movements in Bolivia and Ecuador. <br />
Angered by the government’s failure to involve them in the plans, the indigenous groups in Peru have surprised the authorities with their sudden strength and organization and are now threatening to blunt President <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/alan_garcia/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Alan Garcia.">Alan García</a>’s efforts to lure foreign investment to the region. <br />
“The president thought we would be docile in accepting plans that could completely change the way we hunt for food and raise crops, and we are not,” said Juan Agustín, 41, a <a href="http://www.amazon-indians.org/page14.html" title="Description of Shipibo Indians">Shipibo Indian</a> and a leader of the Peruvian Jungle Interethnic Development Association, an umbrella group here representing more than 300,000 people from dozens of indigenous groups. <br />
The protests have disrupted oil production and pipelines, blocked commerce on roads and waterways, and halted flights at remote airports. While shortages of fuel and food have been reported in some jungle areas, the real concern is that the protests will succeed in cutting energy supplies to major coastal cities. <br />
The killings in Friday’s clashes in Bagua, near an oil pipeline that was a target of the protesters, present a robust challenge to Mr. García, with indigenous leaders here describing them as “genocide.” Officials imposed a curfew in the region as they tried to prevent further violence. <br />
Mr. García had already declared a 60-day state of emergency on May 9 in areas affected by the protests, which began in April. But the move seems only to have escalated tensions, with protests spreading from northern Peru to strategically important locations in the country’s south. <br />
Last weekend about 200 Machiguenga Indians occupied valve stations on the pipeline that moves natural gas from the huge Camisea project in the southeast. Soldiers regained control of the sites, the energy ministry reported. But indigenous leaders said they would try again. <br />
The protesters demand that Mr. García repeal decrees that have made it easier for companies to enter the Amazon Basin, and they have focused on thwarting larger projects. <br />
For instance, leaders from the Asháninka indigenous group are trying to derail <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&refer=news&sid=a49eFvtTFXh8" title="Bloomberg News Story">a plan by Eletrobrás</a>, a company controlled by Brazil’s government, to spend more than $10 billion to build five hydroelectric plants in Peru. <br />
“We want an immediate halt to every project that was conceived without consulting those of us who live in the forest,” said Daniel Marzano, 39, an Asháninka leader from Atalaya Province. <br />
But it is the coordinated focus of the protests on energy installations that has most alarmed analysts and Peru’s business and political classes, who overwhelmingly live in coastal cities. <br />
“The leaders have a strategic vision of hitting the country where it hurts,” said Alberto Bolívar, a security expert, who pointed out the potential for the protesters in some remote jungle areas to combine forces with a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/world/americas/18peru.html" title="Times article on Shining Path resurgence">resurgent faction of the Shining Path</a>, the Maoist group feeding off Peru’s cocaine trade. <br />
On Friday, the guerrillas fired on a helicopter carrying troops in southern Peru, killing one soldier and wounding four others.<br />
Aldo Mariátegui, editor of the <a href="http://www.correoperu.com.pe/correo/indice.php" title="Newspaper Web site (in Spanish)">daily newspaper Correo</a>, speculated that the protests were being supported by the governments in Venezuela and Bolivia to oust Mr. García. It is a view held by some among Peru’s political and business elite. <br />
Indigenous leaders interviewed here rejected the notion, however. Instead, they said conflict arose because the government had opened the rain forest to new investments without thoroughly consulting or involving the people who live there. <br />
In the case of oil, for instance, at least 58 of the 64 areas secured by multinational companies for oil exploration overlay lands titled to indigenous peoples, according to <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002932" title="Duke study">a study last year by scientists from Duke University</a>. <br />
Explaining the government’s position last month, Mr. García said, “We have to understand when there are resources like oil, gas and timber, they don’t belong only to the people who had the fortune to be born there, because that would mean more than half of Peru’s territory belongs to a few thousand people.”<br />
Such views resonate in a country of nearly 30 million people where almost three-quarters of them live in urban areas. But the protests, which show few signs of abating, offer a different vision of how Peru should develop. <br />
Even before the clashes in Bagua, the government used the navy this week to break through blockades on the Napo River in the north to allow barges for Perenco, an oil company planning to invest $2 billion, to move deeper into the rain forest.<br />
“Now we have a government resorting to using military force to spearhead development of the Amazon,” said Paul McAuley, an environmental activist in the Amazonian city of Iquitos with Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic lay order. “This cannot be a strategy that is sustainable.”Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-59538021238152372082009-10-14T22:29:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:29:16.147-07:006 June 2009 - Source - New York Times<h1> <nyt_headline _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> 9 Hostage Officers Killed at Peruvian Oil Facility</nyt_headline> </h1><script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
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</script> <nyt_byline _moz-userdefined="" type=" " version="1.0"> </nyt_byline><div class="byline">By SIMON ROMERO</div><div class="timestamp">Published: June 6, 2009 </div><!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --> <nyt_text _moz-userdefined=""> </nyt_text>LIMA, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/peru/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Peru.">Peru</a> — Nine police officers were killed Saturday as security forces regained control of a petroleum facility from indigenous protesters in a remote jungle region, raising the death toll related to protests by indigenous activists since Friday above 30, Peruvian government officials here said. <br />
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</div></div><div id="sidebarArticles"> <h4>Related</h4><h2>Times Topics: <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/peru/index.html">Peru</a></h2></div></div></div><a href="" name="secondParagraph"></a> Prime Minister Yehude Simon said the officers were killed in the events surrounding a push to retake a pumping station belonging to Petroperú, the national oil company, in the northern Bagua Province, where indigenous protesters had kidnapped 38 police officers. Twenty-two of the abducted officers were freed, but seven were still missing, officials said. <br />
The killings came amid reports by indigenous groups that security forces killed as many as 25 protesters Friday in clashes at a different location in Bagua, where Indians had blocked a highway. Mr. Simon confirmed that at least 9 Indians had been killed and 155 wounded, and that a total of 22 police officers had been killed, intensifying the most acute crisis faced by President <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/alan_garcia/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Alan Garcia.">Alan García</a> since he took office in 2006. <br />
The bloodshed comes after two months of slow-burning protests, which spread from <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/forests_and_forestry/rain_forests/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about rain forests.">rain forests</a> in Peru’s north to the country’s south, and have focused on interrupting petroleum production and transportation. In an increasingly well-coordinated movement, the lowland Indians are demanding that Mr. García withdraw decrees that ease the way for companies to carry out major energy and logging projects in the Peruvian Amazon. <br />
After the operation at the Petroperú facility, officials said they were planning to re-establish the supply of oil to remote provinces that had been hit with fuel shortages and blackouts. Still, it was unclear how successful they would be when protesters were still blocking routes on important highways and rivers. <br />
Officials also said Saturday that they were seeking to enforce an arrest warrant on charges of sedition for Alberto Pizango, a Shawi Indian and the leader of <a href="http://www.aidesep.org.pe/" title="Organization’s Web site, in Spanish">Aidesep</a>, an umbrella organization of indigenous groups that had organized many of the protests. But Mr. Pizango apparently went into hiding and was replaced by another leader, Champion Nonimgo. <br />
“Our protests will go on until our demands are met,” Mr. Nonimgo said. <br />
A maneuver here in Congress sparked the clashes between protesters and the police, after lawmakers blocked an effort Thursday to allow debate on one of Mr. García’s most polemical decrees, which would open as much as 60 percent of Peru’s jungles to oil exploration and other extractive investments. <br />
Ollanta Humala, a nationalist political leader and a former lieutenant colonel in Peru’s army who was defeated by Mr. García in the most recent presidential elections, has sided with the protesters, lambasting the use of use of force against the Indians and raising his profile ahead of the next elections in 2011. <br />
Meanwhile, the climbing body count in the rain forest, along with unconfirmed reports that the number of Indians killed could be higher, threatens to deplete the legitimacy of Mr. García’s government. Mr. García, 60, is still hounded by claims of human rights violations from his first term as president in the 1980s, when soldiers suppressed a prison rebellion in 1986, killing more than 100 inmates suspected of being Maoist guerrillas.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-69455189740802329892009-10-14T22:27:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:27:46.199-07:0011 June, 2009 - Source - New York Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/world/americas/12peru.html?_r=1&emc=eta1<br />
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But instead, indigenous groups are digging in for a protracted fight, revealing an increasingly well-organized movement that could be a tinderbox for President <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/alan_garcia/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Alan Garcia.">Alan García</a>. The movement appears to be fueled by a deep popular resistance to the government’s policies, which focused on luring foreign investment, while parts of the Peruvian Amazon have been left behind. <br />
The broadening influence of the indigenous movement was on display Thursday in a general strike that drew thousands of protesters here to the streets of Iquitos, the largest Peruvian city in the Amazon, and to cities and towns elsewhere in jungle areas. Protests over Mr. García’s handling of the violence in the northern Bagua Province last Friday also took place in highland regions like Puno, near the Bolivian border, and in Lima and Arequipa on the Pacific coast. <br />
“The government made the situation worse with its condescending depiction of us as gangs of savages in the forest,” said Wagner Musoline Acho, 24, an Awajún Indian and an indigenous leader. “They think we can be tricked by a maneuver like suspending a couple of decrees for a few weeks and then reintroducing them, and they are wrong.” <br />
The protesters’ immediate threat — to cut the supply of oil and natural gas to Lima, the capital — seems to have subsided, with protesters partly withdrawing from their occupation of oil installations in the jungle. But as anger festers, indigenous leaders here said they could easily try to shut down energy installations again to exert pressure on Mr. García. <br />
Another wave of protests appears likely because indigenous groups are demanding that the decrees be repealed and not just suspended. The decrees would open large jungle areas to investment and allow companies to bypass indigenous groups to obtain permits for petroleum exploration, logging and building <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hydroelectric_power/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about hydroelectric power.">hydroelectric</a> dams. A stopgap attempt to halt earlier indigenous protests in the Amazon last August failed to prevent them from being reinitiated more forcefully in April.<br />
The authorities said that nine civilians were killed in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/world/americas/06peru.html" title="Times article">the clashes that took place last Friday</a> on a remote highway in Bagua. But witnesses and relatives of missing protesters contend that the authorities are covering up details of the episode, and that more Indians died. Twenty-four police officers were killed on the highway and at an oil installation.<br />
Indigenous representatives say at least 25 civilians, and perhaps more, may have been killed, and some witnesses say that security forces <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/06/10/peru-investigate-violence-bagua" title="Letter to the Peru government from Human Rights Watch">dumped the bodies of protesters into a nearby river</a>. At least three Indians who were wounded <a href="http://www.larepublica.pe/files/edicionimpresa/larepublica/2009/06/11/20090611_1_15_5_2.jpg" title="Article in La Republica (in Spanish)">said they had been shot by police officers as they waited</a> to talk with the authorities.<br />
“The government is trying to clean the blood off its hands by hiding the truth,” said Andrés Huaynacari Etsam, 21, an Awajún student here who said that five of his relatives had been killed on June 5 and that three were missing. <br />
Senior government officials repudiate such claims. “There is a game of political interests taking place in which some are trying to exaggerate the losses of life for their own gain,” said Foreign Minister José García Belaunde.<br />
He said the ultimate aim of the protesters was to prevent Peru from carrying out a trade agreement with the United States, because one of the most contentious of the decrees that were suspended on Thursday would bring Peru’s rules for investment in jungle areas into line with the trade agreement. <br />
“But,” Mr. García Belaunde insisted, “the agreement is not in danger.” <br />
Still, the government’s initial response to the violence seems to have heightened resentment.<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDVgw4pbHEk" title="Interior Ministry video, on YouTube "> A television commercial by the Interior Ministry</a>contained graphic images of the bodies of some police officers who were killed while being held hostage by protesters. The commercial said that the killings were proof of the “ferocity and savagery” of indigenous activists, but an uproar over that depiction forced the government to try to withdraw the commercial. <br />
The authorities are struggling to understand a movement that is crystallizing in the Peruvian Amazon among more than 50 indigenous groups. They include about 300,000 people, accounting for only about 1 percent of Peru’s population, but they live in strategically important and resource-rich locations, which are scattered throughout jungle areas that account for nearly two-thirds of Peru’s territory. <br />
So far, alliances have proved elusive between Indians in the Amazon and indigenous groups in highland areas, ruling out, for now, the kind of broad indigenous protest movements that helped oust governments in neighboring Ecuador and Bolivia earlier in the decade. <br />
In contrast to some earlier efforts to organize indigenous groups, the leaders of this new movement are themselves indigenous, and not white or mestizo urban intellectuals. They are well organized and use a web of radio stations to exchange information across the jungle. After one prominent leader, Alberto Pizango, was granted asylum in Nicaragua this week, others quickly emerged to articulate demands. <br />
“There has been nothing comparable in all my years here in terms of the growth of political consciousness among indigenous groups,” said the Rev. Joaquín García, 70, a priest from Spain who arrived in Iquitos 41 years ago and directs the Center of Theological Studies of the Amazon, which focuses on indigenous issues. <br />
“At issue now,” he said, “is what they decide to do with the newfound bargaining power in their hands.” <br />
<nyt_author_id _moz-userdefined=""></nyt_author_id>Andrea Zarate contributed reporting from Lima, Peru.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-85722931563254838012009-10-14T22:11:00.001-07:002009-10-14T22:11:47.946-07:00Peru Environmental Facts"One computer model of future climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions shows that the Amazon rainforest could become unsustainable under conditions of severely reduced rainfall and increased temperatures, leading to an almost complete loss of rainforest cover in the basin by 2100.[35][36] However, simulations of Amazon basin climate change across many different models are not consistent in their estimation of any rainfall response, ranging from weak increases to strong decreases [37]. The result indicates that the rainforest could be threatened though the 21st century by climate change in addition to deforestation.<br />
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Impact of Amazon drought<br />
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In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in 100 years[38], and there are indications that 2006 could be a second successive year of drought[39]. A 23 July 2006 article in the UK newspaper The Independent reported Woods Hole Research Center results showing that the forest in its present form could survive only three years of drought.[40][41] Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a "tipping point" where it would irreversibly start to die. It concludes that the forest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate.<br />
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The Peruvian population, estimated at 28 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Africans and Spaniards. The main spoken language is Spanish, although a significant number of Peruvians speak Quechua and other native languages. This mixture of cultural traditions has resulted in a wide diversity of expressions in fields such as art, cuisine, literature, and music.<br />
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In 1968, the Armed Forces, led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, staged a coup against president Fernando Belaunde. The new regime undertook radical reforms aimed at fostering development but failed to gain widespread support.[23] In 1975, Velasco was forcefully replaced as president by General Francisco Morales Bermúdez, who paralyzed reforms and oversaw the reestablishment of democracy.[24] During the 1980s, Peru faced a considerable external debt, ever-growing inflation, a surge in drug trafficking, and massive political violence.[25] Under the presidency of Alberto Fujimori (1990–2000), the country started to recover, however, accusations of authoritarianism, corruption, and human rights violations forced his resignation after the controversial 2000 elections.[26] Since the end of the Fujimori regime, Peru has tried to fight corruption while sustaining economic growth; the current president is Alan García.[27]<br />
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Peru is a developing country with a 2004 Human Development Index score of 0.767.[52] Its 2006 per capita income was US$3,374;[53] 51.6% of its total population is poor, including 19.2% that is extremely poor.[54] Historically, the country's economic performance has been tied to exports, which provide hard currency to finance imports and external debt payments.[55] Although exports have provided substantial revenue, self-sustained growth and a more egalitarian distribution of income have proven elusive.[56]<br />
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Peruvian artistic traditions date back to the elaborate pottery, textiles, jewelry, and sculpture of Pre-Inca cultures. The Incas maintained these crafts and made architectural achievements including the construction of Machu Picchu. Baroque art dominated in colonial times, though it was modified by native traditions.[76] During this period, most art focused on religious subjects; the numerous churches of the era and the paintings of the Cuzco School are representative.[77] Arts stagnated after independence until the emergence of Indigenismo in the early 20th century.[78] Since the 1950s, Peruvian art has been eclectic and shaped by both foreign and local art currents.[79]"Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-55963139794912773972009-10-14T22:09:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:09:17.663-07:0026 January 2009 - Source - New York TimesGroups say Peru oil project threatens Indians<br />
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LIMA, Peru: The development of a remote oil field in Peru's Amazon jungle could threaten the survival of isolated Indian communities in the region, an Indian rights group said Monday.<br />
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This month, Peru's Finance Ministry approved plans submitted by Anglo-French oil company Perenco SA to invest $1 billion over the next three years to extract crude from an oil field in the northern province of Loreto near Ecuador's border.<br />
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An international tribal-support organization and local Indian rights groups say the oil field is the ancestral home of up to three nomadic Indian communities living in voluntary isolation.<br />
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"If Perenco works in the area, it could lead to more than half of the uncontacted Indians being wiped out," said Stephen Corry, director of the London-based tribal-support organization Survival International.<br />
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Isolated groups lack immunity to common Western diseases and are vulnerable to contact with oil workers, loggers and other outsiders.<br />
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Peru's environmental minister has said there is no definitive proof that such groups live in the region. President Alan Garcia says the oil field, which contains an estimated 300 million barrels, would turn Peru into a net oil exporter.<br />
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A company spokesman for Perence in Peru said no official was available for comment Monday.<br />
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The Peruvian Jungle Inter-Ethnic Development Association, or AIDESEP, a national rights group, filed a lawsuit in Loreto in 2007 and has petitioned the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to halt the oil project.<br />
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A court in Loreto ruled last October against AIDESEP, which is appealing to Peru's highest court in Lima, AIDESEP spokesman Edson Rosales told The Associated Press on Monday.<br />
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Perenco plans to build 100 oil wells in the area and extract 100,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the company's Web site. But the project requires new oil pipelines to connect the field to Peru's main pipeline grid.<br />
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Peru's state oil company Petroperu planned to invest $1 billion to build the pipelines, but last week Peru's oil and mining minister said falling global oil prices have forced the government to "re-evaluate" the project.<br />
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Without Petroperu's pipeline investment, Perenco would have to assume all the transportation costs itself. Perenco has not indicated any plans to suspend the project.<br />
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Perenco acquired the rights to the oil block last year when oil prices were still above $100 a barrel. Prices for light, sweet crude have since dropped to $48. Peru's heavy crude trades at 15 to 20 percent lower than light crude.<br />
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Survival International says there are more than 100 tribes living in voluntary isolation worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-3684876720437448642009-10-14T22:08:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:08:10.014-07:00November 2008 - Source - BBC NewsNovember 2008<br />
Lawlessness mars Amazon dreams<br />
By Carolina Glycerio<br />
BBC Brasil, Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso<br />
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Carlito, a cattle rancher<br />
Cattle ranching is blamed for up to 70% of current Amazon deforestation<br />
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Carlos Alberto Guimaraes (or "Carlito") is one of the biggest individual deforesters in the Amazon rainforest.<br />
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Since he moved here four decades ago, he has been responsible for clearing 100,000 hectares of trees across three states to make way for his cattle.<br />
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He is straight-talking and matter-of-fact about his role in destroying the rainforest.<br />
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"Deforestation is a necessary evil," he says.<br />
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The fact is land in the Amazon rainforest is much more valuable with the trees cleared off it - whether this is to make way for cattle or crops - and nobody has yet come up with a viable economic incentive not to cut down trees.<br />
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Cattle ranching is generally held responsible for up to 70% of the current deforestation in the Amazon, but to point the finger solely at cattle ranchers would be to miss a central point about the Amazon region.<br />
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This report is part of a BBC World Service special on the Amazon rainforest.<br />
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Starting at 0500GMT on Thursday 15 May, there are live and recorded broadcasts.<br />
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This is frontier land and many people are trying to exploit it, from ranchers to farmers to the landless movement to land grabbers.<br />
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Travelling around Mato Grosso state, the more complicated the picture became.<br />
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In some areas, authorities are nowhere to be seen and there is a sense of disorder and lawlessness.<br />
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The region attracts people with a frontier mentality.<br />
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They do not trust the government and they firmly believe that they have as much right to their piece of land as anyone else, no matter how they got it.<br />
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And almost all are deforesting their land at an alarming rate, pushing back the edges of the jungle.<br />
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'Eating dust'<br />
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Sebastiao is part of the landless workers movement, the MST, that campaigns for land redistribution.<br />
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He is among some 1,000 people who seven months ago were granted land on a farm expropriated by the government.<br />
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But red tape means he and his family are yet to take possession of their land.<br />
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"We are here eating dust at the side of the road just waiting", he says.<br />
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To add to Sebastiao's problems, the land he has been promised has already been "grabbed" by others who have started clearing it for their own use.<br />
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"It is not right that we are crushed here and there are people making money out of our forest," Sebastiao said.<br />
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Among the "landgrabbers" is Lindomar, who we met down a long road that a group of 500 families had cut out of the forest.<br />
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Grey area<br />
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Rolling a cigarette and resting beside his two chainsaws, Lindomar readily admits he took his land illegally.<br />
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Milton, a "settler"<br />
The region attracts people with a frontier mentality<br />
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His justification is there is no proper land title and public land belongs to the people, so unlike Sebastiao he did not go through official channels to be allocated land.<br />
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"I do not think it is right to invade a land that is properly documented. But if it is something they haven't paid taxes for and that they don't take good care of, we should have it", he says.<br />
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Further along the road was Milton, working on a piece of land he said he had bought 45 days earlier.<br />
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He falls in that grey area between land grabber and land owner, so we'll call him a "settler" for argument's sake. He says he has a legal deed for the land and he paid for it, but he also admitted he knew all along it was disputed property.<br />
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"If someone asks us to leave, what are we going to do?" he says, banging his machete against a fence post.<br />
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"I can't go anywhere else, my family are here, all my money is in this land. What is our option?"<br />
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He says he fears the Indians, because he knows he is on land that was given to them by the government, but he says he has never tried to speak to them because he considers them "enemies".<br />
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'Corrupt politicians'<br />
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But for Damaio, the chief of the nearby Xavante Indian settlement, everyone else in the region, from ranchers to politicians, are enemies of the forest.<br />
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People here are aware of the bigger issue of deforestation but are also convinced it is their right to make a living from their own parcel of land<br />
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"They got here and finished with it all," he said.<br />
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The Xavante need government help to keep their 166,000 hectare reservation safe from land invaders, Damiao says.<br />
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Suspicion of outsiders is rife in this region and I was warned more than once that I should be very careful what we said to whom.<br />
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Corrupt politicians, hired gunmen, night-time attacks were mentioned, and two of the people I spoke to freely admitted they had threatened to kill each other at one point.<br />
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People here are aware of the bigger issue of deforestation but are also convinced it is their right to make a living from their own parcel of land.<br />
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They also feel they alone should not be blamed for deforestation.<br />
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Brazil as the biggest beef exporter and second largest soya exporter in the world is under pressure to create more agricultural land, especially given the rising prices for foodstuffs.<br />
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For Carlito it is pure hypocrisy for the rest of the world to criticise him as a deforester.<br />
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"There are a lot of people in this world that have been living on the food I produce", he says.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-36040442310638448842009-10-14T22:05:00.001-07:002009-10-14T22:05:51.477-07:00May 2008 - Source - BBC NewsARC OF FIRE<br />
Front line battle to save Amazon forest<br />
By Gary Duffy<br />
BBC News, Paragominas<br />
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Soldiers watch logging operation<br />
Soldiers are backing up environmental officials and police officers<br />
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In the small town of Paragominas, in the Brazilian state of Para, watching operation Arc of Fire can be an impressive sight.<br />
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This is the front line in the battle to contain deforestation - police and environmental officials setting off in a convoy of vehicles, with armed soldiers from the national security force for added protection.<br />
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The precautions are not unjustified - on a recent operation in the nearby town of Tailandia, residents angered by Arc of Fire and its impact on local firms clashed violently with police.<br />
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In Paragominas, bemused local people watch as the police cars, with flashing lights and sirens blaring, make their way out of town en route to a local logging firm three to four hours away.<br />
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These officials want to know if the wood there has been legally cut down, and if the owner has the paperwork to prove it.<br />
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Illegal ovens<br />
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When the convoy reaches the logging firm, the owner is not there, as is often the case, but officials begin checking the wood to see if the law has been broken.<br />
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This report is part of a BBC World Service special on the Amazon rainforest.<br />
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Starting at 0500GMT on Thursday 15 May, ther are live and recorded broadcasts.<br />
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Highlights include a double edition of Newshour, presented live from three locations in Brazil - Manaus, Paragomina and Alta Floresta - at 1200 and a one hour special at 1600.<br />
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If the owner cannot explain the presence of all the logs in his yard, it could be seized and he may face a significant fine.<br />
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A short distance away, police cars stop at a site where row after row of open air ovens are being used to burn wood for charcoal.<br />
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Checks reveal that more than the permitted number of dome-shaped ovens has been built, so two are destroyed on the same day.<br />
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This operation on the ground in the Amazon has been continuing for two months, and police chief, Sergio Rovani, who is responsible for tackling environmental crimes in Para, insists it is getting results.<br />
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According to the official statistics, Arc of Fire has recovered enough illegal wood to fill 1500 trucks, and 1600 hundred charcoal furnaces have been destroyed. Many fines have also been imposed.<br />
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'Destruction is chaotic'<br />
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However Sergio Rovani also accepts the scale of the challenges is daunting.<br />
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Illegal charcoal ovens are being destroyed as part of Arc of Fire<br />
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"Para is a giant state which covers 1.3m sq km," he says.<br />
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"It is really of continental dimensions, and we have only four local police stations so we don't have many resources to confront destruction of the forest that nowadays is so chaotic.<br />
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"The police are every day investing more in equipment and recently got new recruits - who are being brought as a priority to states in the north to combat deforestation."<br />
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Paulo Maues, who is the coordinator in Paragominas for Ibama, the Brazilian government's environmental agency, also acknowledges the difficulties faced by his team.<br />
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"In regard to the wood, we have all sorts of problems -illegal logging, illegal transportation, illegal processing of the wood, fraud," he says.<br />
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"People who deforest justify themselves, saying the state is very slow to release licences. However we're here to do our job, and to execute the law."<br />
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But public prosecutor Felicio Pontes says the Brazilian government is failing to live up to its responsibilities, and his hopes for the future are heavily qualified.<br />
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"It depends if we can get the government to recognise the importance of the question of Amazonia," he says.<br />
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"With operations like Arc of Fire it won't have effective results and we are going to be in a worse situation in four years time because the federal government is much more concerned nowadays about the money Brazil is getting through exports such as soya and beef."<br />
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Deforestation rate rising<br />
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In Belem, the capital of Para, satellite images reveal in intimate detail what is happening on the ground in Paragominas, and in other parts of the Amazon basin.<br />
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These are being monitored carefully by Imazon, a non-governmental organisation which was the first to alert the world late last year that deforestation in the Amazon was on the rise again.<br />
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Senior researcher Paulo Barreto says deforestation dropped between 2004 and 2006, but in the latter part of 2007 and early 2008 the figures have again been showing a rise.<br />
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"Brazil has advanced in terms of improving field inspection, now they go there and issue fines against environmental violators," he says. "But the application of fines is very weak.<br />
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"The second point is the free occupation of public lands in the frontier - allowing people to settle in public lands illegally. Land amounting to about three times the size of the UK is occupied by people who didn't buy it, or pay a lease, and it is very hard to make these people responsible for environmental violations."<br />
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However there are some signs of changing attitudes, with the local mayor supporting a pact to promote "zero deforestation" and encouraging schoolchildren to learn more about the environment.<br />
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Environmental pariahs<br />
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The history of Paragominas is the history of deforestation in Amazon - those who came here first were viewed as pioneers opening up the rainforest in order to benefit the rest of the country.<br />
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Officials study satellite images<br />
Officials at Imazon sounded the alarm about the recent rise in deforestation<br />
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Now they feel like they are environmental pariahs accused of destroying one of Brazil's and the world's greatest riches.<br />
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This is a community trying to reconcile its economic imperative to survive with the wider issue of protecting the environment.<br />
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Paragominas is one of the municipal areas with the worst record of deforestation in the region, and has already destroyed more than 45% of nearby forest cover. The scale of devastation is such that a municipality that used to have 240 sawmills now has fewer than 60, as other towns have taken over a leading role in deforestation.<br />
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Amid these changing times there is much talk among the local authorities of a new approach, but a lot of harm has already been done, and it will take even more work if that damage is to be repaired.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-33333442304325301862009-10-14T22:03:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:04:17.516-07:0015 May 2008 -- Source -- BBC NewsSeeking an Amazon solutionBy Fergus Nicoll<br />
BBC News, Amazonas state, Brazil<br />
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Amazonas river<br />
The Amazon landscape is epic in scale<br />
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Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky.<br />
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It's a full three kilometres to the other side and at that distance even the forest giants that tower over the canopy seem reduced in size.<br />
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Amazonas state - a territory three times the size of France but with a telephone book just a centimetre thick - is 98% pristine rainforest.<br />
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But it is an environment threatened by powerful forces - like the march of economic development.<br />
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Former Harvard law professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger, the man charged with implementing Brazil's new Plan for a Sustainable Amazon (PAS), is under no illusions about the difficulties he faces.<br />
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Amazon Paradox graphic<br />
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This report is part of a BBC World Service special on the Amazon rainforest.<br />
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Starting at 0500GMT on Thursday 15 May, there are live and recorded broadcasts.<br />
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Highlights include a double edition of Newshour, presented live from three locations in Brazil - Manaus, Pargominas and Alta Floresta - at 1200 and a one hour special at 1600.<br />
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BBC World Service special report<br />
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"The Amazon is not simply a collection of trees," Unger, Brazil's minister for strategic affairs told the BBC.<br />
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"It's a group of people: 25 million Brazilians.<br />
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"If those people lack economic opportunities, the practical consequence will be disorganised economic opportunity, which will hasten the deforestation.<br />
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"What we must do is develop a regulatory legal and tax regime, ensuring that the forest standing is worth more than the forest cut down."<br />
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'No Amazon support'<br />
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The PAS plan is a detailed, yet controversial roadmap. Environmentalists have criticised it for focusing more on development, than protecting the environment.<br />
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Logging operation<br />
There is a delicate balance between economics and environmentalism<br />
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Even the appointment of Unger to oversee the plan - rather than the former environment minister and staunch defender of the Amazon, Marina Silva - added to this impression.<br />
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Ms Silva resigned on 13 May and she criticised what she said was a lack of political support to protect the Amazon among Brazil's leaders.<br />
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However, the plan's supporters say seizing control of development in a structured manner is the best way to safeguard the forest's future.<br />
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Among the PAS plan's initiatives are:<br />
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* Develop the infrastructure of the region with new roads, navigable river routes and more hydroelectric dams<br />
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* Set up a tax regime benefiting those using sustainable practices<br />
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* Establish a legal framework for transferring parts of the forest from public to community control<br />
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* Add three million hectares to the "officially protected" zone<br />
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* Seek ways of allowing the international community to help preserve the forest.<br />
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Ambitious scheme<br />
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In Amazonas state, there are practical examples of how these initiatives might work.<br />
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The Amazon rainforest<br />
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Pop: 30m - 23.5m are in Brazil<br />
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Delicate balance<br />
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Virgilio Vianna of the Foundation for Amazonas Sustainability said that since 2003, tax breaks on commodities such as fish and fruit had made local producers richer.<br />
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One of the state's most ambitious, and controversial, environmental programmes - The Bolsa Floresta (forest bursary) scheme - was set up to compensate the state's traditional and indigenous people.<br />
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It amounts to a straightforward exchange - cash in hand for trees left standing.<br />
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To qualify for a hand-out of 50 reais (US$30) per month, a family must attend a two-day training course on environmental awareness and commit to zero deforestation.<br />
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Local community associations can get up to $3,000 under the scheme, financed by a partnership between Amazonas State and Brazil's largest private bank, Bradesco.<br />
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Another programme offers cash for sustainable activities that do not produce smoke, such as bee-keeping, fish-farming or forest management.<br />
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Compensation 'derisory'<br />
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But there are those who say the Bolsa Floresta has been ill thought-out, and imposed from above.<br />
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"One of the problems is that there was no discussion with the communities concerned, it was a top-down policy and very focussed on [state capital] Manaus," said Marta Cunha, of the Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission.<br />
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The compensation levels are also regarded by some as very low - "derisory" according to Angelus Figueira of the Amazonas Green party.<br />
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Defenders say the project - now eight months old - is in its early stages.<br />
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Investments by Bradesco and the state should provide more than enough funds to sustain the Bolsa Floresta, its backers say.<br />
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And according to Vianna, it's a sign of the "private sector associating itself with the protection of the forest".<br />
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Globalisation<br />
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Another programme - a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme - addresses the question of "ethical logging".<br />
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In a typical FSC-accredited business, just five trees would logged from an area of 10,000 square metres of pristine forest.<br />
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Growing global demand for Brazilian commodities has helped accelerate destruction of the Amazon forest.<br />
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Deforestation increases and declines according to international prices of beef and soya, as well as the relative strength of the real to the dollar.<br />
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But some argue growing demands from the global food market will be matched by increasing concern for environmental responsibility.<br />
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Daniel Nepstad, a forest ecologist with more than 20 years of Amazon experience, believes international markets and financial institutions will require more responsible land management on the part of Brazil's beef ranchers and soya farmers.<br />
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"There may be a silver lining to the cloud of globalization that has spread across the Amazon," Nepstad wrote in a recent report for the Woods Hole Research Centre in Massachusetts.<br />
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'Emergency measures'<br />
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Nepstad also predicts Brazil will benefit from the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) initiative, launched under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.<br />
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We do not see any contradiction in principle between an active economic project and the conservation of this treasure for humanity<br />
Roberto Mangabeira Unger<br />
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Under the scheme, he says Brazil would be rewarded for reducing deforestation, because burning the trees releases a vast amount of carbon into the atmosphere.<br />
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From the local level to the complexities of macro-economics, an increasing range of incentives is influencing the future of the Amazon forest.<br />
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For Roberto Mangabeira Unger, maintaining a careful balance is central to the success of his government's evolving strategy.<br />
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"The commitment to preservation has been long-standing," he says.<br />
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"Emergency measures are under way. The next step is to put in place the elements of a long-term programme.<br />
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"We do not see any contradiction in principle between an active economic project and the conservation of this treasure for humanity." Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-90766583064840300352009-10-14T22:01:00.000-07:002009-10-14T22:01:02.234-07:00November 2008 - Source - BBC NewsPlane to monitor Brazilian tribes<br />
By Gary Duffy<br />
BBC News, Sao Paulo<br />
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The Amazon is home to an estimated 39 isolated groups<br />
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The Brazilian authorities are to use a plane equipped with body-heat sensors to monitor uncontacted Indian tribes in the Amazon from a distance.<br />
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Brazil has a policy of leaving such isolated indigenous groups in peace unless it is absolutely necessary to make contact.<br />
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Officials say the plane will help them to protect remote communities without interrupting their way of life.<br />
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Some 39 isolated groups are believed to be living in the Amazon region.<br />
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In May this year the authorities released a photograph of members of an uncontacted tribe firing arrows at a passing plane - an image reproduced in newspapers and on websites.<br />
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Health risk<br />
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It is thought there may be more than 100 such tribes still in existence worldwide - more than half living in Latin America.<br />
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Life for these isolated communities is often precarious.<br />
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In Paraguay the campaign group Survival International says land belonging to one such tribe is being destroyed by outside developers. Similar problems have been reported in Peru.<br />
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Now the authorities in Brazil are to adopt an innovative solution to monitor uncontacted tribes.<br />
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A plane fitted with body-heat sensors and flying at high altitudes will be used to locate them.<br />
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The Brazilian agency which oversees the welfare of indigenous people, known as Funai, says it will then be able to ensure that loggers and farmers are kept out of Indian territory.<br />
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As well as the threat to their land, diseases brought by outsiders pose a major risk to the health of these remote indigenous groups.<br />
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Without the plane, the work of locating the tribes has been enormously difficult and just confirming the existence of some of these communities will be a priority for the new service.<br />
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The majority of Brazil's indigenous population has greater contact with outside society, sometimes living in reservations where agencies provide health and other support, but their lives are often blighted by poverty and other social problemsHarrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-61136885377257660612009-10-14T21:56:00.001-07:002009-10-14T21:56:54.660-07:0024 March 2008 - Source - BBC NewsPublished on Monday, March 24, 2008 by BBC News<br />
Peru Tribe Battles Oil Giant Over Pollution<br />
by Dan Collyns<br />
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It is a familiar story. Big business moves into a pristine wilderness and starts destroying the environment and by turn the livelihoods of the indigenous people who live there.0324 04 1<br />
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But in a reversal of plot, there are now cases of people living traditional lifestyles who are now invading the territory of the big companies and taking them on at their own game.<br />
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The story of the Achuar tribe living in the Amazon rainforest of north-eastern Peru is one of them.<br />
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Last year, they filed a class action lawsuit against oil giant Occidental Petroleum, in Los Angeles.<br />
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Now they are awaiting a judge’s decision on whether the case can proceed in the US or will be sent back to Peru, where it stands little chance of coming to court.<br />
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‘No credible data<br />
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The Achuar people, who have lived for thousands of years in the rainforest, allege that the company contaminated their territory during more than 30 years of oil drilling, making their people sick, even causing some to die, and damaging their land and livelihoods beyond repair.<br />
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Occidental Petroleum, which pulled out of Peru eight years ago, denies liability in the case.<br />
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It has responded, saying: “We are aware of no credible data of negative community health impacts resulting from Occidental’s operations in Peru.”<br />
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The oil bonanza began in Peru almost 40 years ago when many foreign companies were given an open invitation by successive governments to test and drill in the Amazon.<br />
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What they did not consider was the devastating impact it would have on the native people, principally the Achuar - their land, their livelihood and their health.<br />
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The Achuar’s spiritual leader, Tomas Maynas, wears a bright red headdress made of toucan feathers, and has red war paint streaked on his face. He is the plaintiff in the suit against the company.<br />
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He remembers how everything changed when the oil companies arrived. He says the animals ran away, the fish died and their crops started to wilt.<br />
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“The Peruvian state just wants to extract as much oil as they can from our land. They’ve made millions of dollars but we haven’t seen it here.<br />
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“We know there’s wealth here and there’ll be more drilling so the state will keep on killing us. But sometimes, when there is pressure, the state gives in.”<br />
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The lawsuit alleges Occidental Petroleum ignored industry standards and employed out-of-date practices, dumping around 9bn barrels of toxic waste water into streams and rivers over 30 years.<br />
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After Occidental left, its operations were taken over by Pluspetrol.<br />
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Pluspetrol agreed to change practices in late 2006 when the Achuar, after repeated attempts to negotiate, took direct action.<br />
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Shotguns and spears<br />
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Many of the older Achuar men once fought in tribal wars with their neighbours, now they finally had the chance to hit their elusive new enemies where it hurt - in their pockets.<br />
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Peacefully, yet armed with shotguns and spears, they occupied and held the Amazon oil wells in October 2006.<br />
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The government and the company, losing millions of dollars a day, were forced to come to the negotiating table.<br />
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The Achuar came away with a commitment from Pluspetrol to reduce contamination and to pay millions of dollars to clean up and establish a 10-year health plan.<br />
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It was thanks to help from outside but also a new generation of indigenous leaders who are learning how to protect their rights in the modern world.<br />
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“A whole generation had their health damaged. How can we keep quiet as our parents did?” asks 29-year-old Petronila Chumpi.<br />
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“We can’t allow this, we’re a new generation, we know how to read and write and we have to help our people because they didn’t have the knowledge to defend themselves against the oil companies. But now we do.”<br />
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Improvement<br />
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Even on a fast motorboat, Trompeteros is a long day’s journey up three rain-swollen rivers from Loreto’s regional capital, Iquitos. A hamlet of some 3,000 people, it is situated right opposite Block Eight, one of the main oil wells.<br />
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Local people say there is still contamination and oil spills, but now the Achuar have GPS transceivers to log the problems where they find them.<br />
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Little by little there are signs of improvement.<br />
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But there is frustration on the part of Pluspetrol, which has pledged to pay millions of dollars, that the government is not playing a bigger role.<br />
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“This oil industry should be of benefit for everybody - maybe today it’s not of benefit to indigenous people and the government should find the best way to solve that problem,” says Roberto Ramallo, general manager of Pluspetrol Norte.<br />
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But the problem is that the Achuar and other tribes live on top of potentially enormous reserves of crude oil.<br />
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Thanks to an intense drive to auction it off, almost three-quarters of the Peruvian Amazon is leased for oil exploration and extraction.<br />
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High global demand and the price of oil is also making companies look at the Peruvian Amazon as an attractive prospect, but is it sustainable?<br />
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“All of this petroleum exploration in the Amazon is a grand experiment,” says Bill Powers of E-Tech, a not-for-profit engineering firm.<br />
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“It’s just coming into the jungle, developing the resource, getting the economic benefit and historically it’s been whatever happens to whoever was there before, happens.<br />
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“There’s no plan, there’s no effort made to ensure that they maintain their cultural integrity or that they have something to do once the rivers and the forest don’t provide what they used to provide.”<br />
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Future plans<br />
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Carbon trading schemes have yet to reach this part of the Amazon and the oil boom is not the only threat.<br />
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President Alan Garcia has proposed privatising large areas of the rainforest, but local officials say the government in Lima does not understand the impact this would have.<br />
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The regional president of Loreto, Ivan Vasquez, says the Amazon needs to preserve its diversity at all costs.<br />
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“The ecosystem is the genetic bank of the Amazon, as it brings together genetic matrices which don’t exist anywhere else - thousands of interconnected genetic bases.<br />
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“That is our capital, the genetic bank that we have to preserve for humanity, and for the world.”<br />
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The Achuar have so far rejected new oil exploration on their territory.<br />
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Their story is an emblematic case of resistance for indigenous Amazonians and is unprecedented in Peru.<br />
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But the Peruvian rainforest, the biggest stretch of Amazon outside Brazil, is still the focus of the relentless global hunt to find new sources of fossil fuels.<br />
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© 2008 BBC NewsHarrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-51674288595679409302009-10-14T21:51:00.000-07:002009-10-14T21:51:05.424-07:0029 May 2008 - Soruce - livinginperu.comEnvironment/Nature | 29 May, 2008 [ 16:30 ]<br />
Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border<br />
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Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border.<br />
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The photos were taken during several flights over one of the remotest parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre state.<br />
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‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior. Meirelles works for FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’<br />
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Meirelles says that the group’s numbers are increasing. But other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru.<br />
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Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.<br />
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‘What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world,’ said Meirelles.<br />
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There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide, with more than half living in either Brazil or Peru. All are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and decimated by new diseases.<br />
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Survival has launched an urgent campaign to get their land protected, and a unique film narrated by actress Julie Christie.<br />
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Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct.’Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-10169253700786760772009-10-14T21:50:00.000-07:002009-10-14T21:50:00.833-07:0030 May 2008 - Source - livinginperu.comEnvironment/Nature | 30 May, 2008 [ 06:30 ]<br />
French company in legal battle over uncontacted Peru tribes<br />
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A French company is locked in a legal battle with Amazon Indians over its plans to drill for oil in parts of the jungle inhabited by some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. A hearing is due on 30 May.<br />
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The company, Perenco, is working in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon where at least two uncontacted tribes live. It is believed to be the biggest oil find in Peru in thirty years and the Peruvian president, Alan Garcia, has expressed hopes it will transform the Peruvian economy.<br />
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The case has been filed by Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP. It urges the judge to prohibit Perenco and other companies from working in the region and making contact with uncontacted tribes.<br />
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Perenco acquired the rights to work in Peru after taking over a US company, Barrett Resources, earlier this year.<br />
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Barrett had already attracted fierce criticism from Peruvian Indians after revealing plans to ‘communicate’ with the tribes using megaphones if its oil crews were attacked by them.<br />
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Any form of contact with the tribes could be catastrophic because of their vulnerability to outsiders’ diseases. After first contact, it is common for more than 50% of a tribe to die.<br />
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Despite this, and despite an international law that recognises the tribes as the rightful owners of their land, Perenco continues to work there.<br />
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Survival’s Director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘Perenco must understand the potentially disastrous consequences its actions may have for the uncontacted tribes. Perenco, pull out. It’s the Indians’ land, not yours, and you’re breaking international law by working there.’Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-27960271935652272692009-10-14T21:47:00.000-07:002009-10-14T21:47:51.914-07:003 June 2008 - Source- livinginperu.comEnvironment/Nature | 3 June, 2008 [ 11:15 ]<br />
Peru: Uncontacted tribe photos spur government into action<br />
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Peru’s government has announced plans to investigate the plight of uncontacted Indians living in the remote Peruvian Amazon.<br />
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The announcement comes after unique photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil, near the Peruvian border, made world headlines.<br />
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They are among an estimated 500 uncontacted Indians in the region, some of whom are believed to be at risk from conflict with other uncontacted tribes from Peru fleeing into Brazil.<br />
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‘The idea is to protect them, not contact them,’ the director of the Peruvian government’s indigenous affairs department, Ronald Ibarra, is reported as saying. ‘A team of professionals will travel to the region to gather information and see if illegal logging really is displacing the tribes.’<br />
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Photos were also taken of the houses of one of these refugee tribes, now living five kilometres across the border in Brazil.<br />
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In total, there are an estimated fifteen uncontacted tribes in Peru and all of them are threatened with extinction, mainly from illegal logging and oil exploration. They are exceedingly vulnerable to any form of contact because they have no immunity to outsiders’ diseases.<br />
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Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘This is a positive first step from the Peruvian government, but it must act fast. It must stop the logging, remove the loggers and any other invaders from the uncontacted Indians’ land, and ensure that no one else enters in the future.’Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118566586640723915.post-17031900408759677582009-10-14T21:46:00.000-07:002009-10-14T21:46:06.735-07:0013 June, 2008 - Source- livinginperu.comEnvironment/Nature | 13 June, 2008 [ 15:45 ]<br />
Peru: Uncontacted tribes not Peruvian and not fleeing illegal logging<br />
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Living in Peru<br />
Israel J. Ruiz<br />
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After the Brazilian government released pictures it had taken near the Peru-Brazil border of an indigenous tribe that has avoided contact with the outside world, several organizations began efforts to protect the uncontacted people.<br />
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It was believed that the tribes were fleeing the area because of illegal logging that was taking place near the Peruvian border with Brazil.<br />
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The Peruvian Amazon Indian organization (AIDESEP) affirmed that logging was forcing uncontacted tribes "out of their own territories". Moreover, they urged the government to protect the tribes.<br />
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According to biologist Grocio Gil Navarro, the indigenous people that were photographed were not Peruvians.<br />
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The head of Alto Purus National Park and the Comunal Purus Reserve clarified that contrary to what many believed, the tribes were not Peruvian.<br />
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Furthermore, the head of the reserve assured that the uncontacted individuals were not fleeing from illegal logging that was taking place in the region of Ucayali.<br />
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He added that information being given out by certain NGOs was not true, stating that there were several control towers in the area which tracked and protected the tribes.<br />
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"We were very surprised," said Navarro, affirming that there were control towers near the areas where NGOs were claiming that illegal logging was taking place.<br />
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He stated that he had not received reports of illegal logging and affirmed that uncontacted tribes were not being chased from their homes.<br />
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Navarro added that the tribes frequently moved from Peru to Brazil, stating that they were not aware they were moving from one country to another.<br />
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He assured that this was part of their migratory habits.Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325480379124831121noreply@blogger.com0