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Uncontacted Amazon tribe spotted by plane in Peru mongabay.com October 21, 2007
"The Indians were spotted on the shores of the Las Piedras river in Peru's south-eastern Amazon," said the NGO in a press release. "They left their shelters on the beach to watch the plane, chartered by Peru's Environment Agency, fly overhead. During the plane's second pass, one of the Indian women, carrying arrows and accompanied by a small boy, gestured aggressively, whilst the rest of the group sought refuge in the undergrowth." The sighting, notes Survival International, comes shortly after the representatives from Perupetro, Peru's state oil company, compared the existence of uncontacted tribes in Peru to the Loch Ness monster.
Indigenous rights groups say the sighting is proof that such people exist. Survival International estimates that there are at least 15 uncontacted tribes in Peru, many of which are likely at risk from encroachment by loggers and the oil industry. "What further proof is needed of the uncontacted tribes' existence?" asked Stephen Corry, director of Survival International. "There they are for all the world to see - Peru's most vulnerable citizens whose government now needs to do its duty by them. It is time for their rights to their land to be recognized and respected, for oil and gas exploration to be banned from their territories, and for all loggers and other outsiders to be removed." "The uncontacted tribes exist," added AIDESEP, Peru's national Indian organization. "If we don't act now, tomorrow could be too late.' News index | RSS | Add to MyYahoo! Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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