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					<title>‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/they-should-choose-their-own-destinies-manish-chandi-on-indias-isolated-tribes/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2026 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, India, Indian Ocean, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Crime, Culture, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Illegal Fishing, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Law, Oceans, Poaching, Tropical Forests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[From above, the North Sentinel Island tribal reserve in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is a thick, unbroken patch of dark green — starkly surrounded by the shimmering coastal blue waters of its buffer zone. On these shores, Sentinelese people, who live in voluntary isolation protected by a strict government no-contact policy, spear fish, hunt [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From above, the North Sentinel Island tribal reserve in India’s Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is a thick, unbroken patch of dark green — starkly surrounded by the shimmering coastal blue waters of its buffer zone. On these shores, Sentinelese people, who live in voluntary isolation protected by a strict government no-contact policy, spear fish, hunt turtles and collect mollusks in shallow reefs surrounded by mangroves. The coastal reefs are intact ecosystems rich in fish life, say biologists. “I have seen them [groups of men, women and children] foraging and collecting these food resources during low tide on several occasions,” says Manish Chandi, a tribal expert who has watched the island from afar. “The Sentinelese are aware of these as nutritious and sparsely available resources in such [mangrove] habitats, which are very few on and around the island.” The giant trees of the North Sentinel Island coastline are its first natural defense against storms and which hold its coastal soil together. The shore is lined with sandy beaches and rocky shores, while the foreshore is dotted with coral reefs and mangroves — excellent nurseries for marine biodiversity. Image by Manish Chandi. Like other tribal reserves on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the southeast of mainland India, North Sentinel Island is a biodiversity hotspot; and, like other tribal reserves, the isolated people who live there have attracted influencers and misunderstandings, says Chandi. “Curiosity and ignorance regarding the islanders is quite high and understandably so amongst outsiders and [government] bureaucrats who have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/they-should-choose-their-own-destinies-manish-chandi-on-indias-isolated-tribes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329679</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Invaders storm Indigenous Amazon land, threatening isolated people</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/invaders-storm-indigenous-amazon-land-threatening-isolated-people/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Sep 2026 17:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee GabayElisângela Mendonça]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Cattle, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly 200 people have invaded the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state since mid‑August, smashing through the Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai)&#8217;s gates, tearing down warning signs and setting up camps inside a territory reserved for uncontacted Indigenous peoples. The surge followed the creation of the Bacajaí Environmental Protection Area (APA Bacajaí) under a new [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly 200 people have invaded the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state since mid‑August, smashing through the Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai)&#8217;s gates, tearing down warning signs and setting up camps inside a territory reserved for uncontacted Indigenous peoples. The surge followed the creation of the Bacajaí Environmental Protection Area (APA Bacajaí) under a new state law that completely overlaps the federally protected Indigenous land, creating legal confusion that authorities say has been weaponized by land‑grabbers to justify occupation for cattle ranching and other agricultural activities. Federal prosecutors and the Public Defender’s Office have warned of an imminent risk of violent confrontation and possible genocide against the isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava people. Since 2011, a series of temporary land-use restriction orders, which prohibit unauthorized individuals from entering Ituna/Itatá, protected the vulnerable population. Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Agency, Funai, renewed the precautionary measure in 2025. The first reported invasions occurred a day after Pará published the new state law in the Official Gazette on August 12, 2026, announcing the creation of the APA Bacajaí in the municipalities of Altamira and Senador José Porfírio. The APA covers about 142,400 hectares (351,880 acres) of land in the Brazilian Amazon, which overlaps “100% with the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land”. The bill, which was introduced in June by Pará state representative (state deputy) Francisco Torres de Paula Filho, also known as Torrinho Torres, was unanimously approved and made law one month later. “What was on August 13th limited to indications of opening access routes and destruction of territorial&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/invaders-storm-indigenous-amazon-land-threatening-isolated-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-328402</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Roads, loggers close in on an unprotected refuge for isolated Kakataibo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/roads-loggers-close-in-on-an-unprotected-refuge-for-isolated-kakataibo/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Jul 2026 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Crime, Development, Forestry, Governance, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Law, Logging, Roads, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[An unprotected area in Peru’s Amazon, where Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation, sits in a growing sea of forestry concessions, illegal roads, illegal loggers and drug traffickers, according to maps and confidential reports seen by Mongabay. Indigenous leaders and national organizations are calling the area Kakataibo Extremo Norte, or Kakataibo Extreme North. Julio Cusurichi, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An unprotected area in Peru’s Amazon, where Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation, sits in a growing sea of forestry concessions, illegal roads, illegal loggers and drug traffickers, according to maps and confidential reports seen by Mongabay. Indigenous leaders and national organizations are calling the area Kakataibo Extremo Norte, or Kakataibo Extreme North. Julio Cusurichi, a Shipibo-Conibo leader and political coordinator of the PIACI (Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact) program of AIDESEP, Peru’s national Indigenous rights organization, told Mongabay that the forests and isolated people in this area face serious threats. “There are loggers there, there are illicit activities,” he said in an interview. “It is a very worrying issue. The fact that these illegal activities are linked to roads is particularly concerning.” Indigenous leaders and organizations have sought formal recognition of Kakataibo Extremo Norte from the Peruvian state since 2021. In 2023, however, the Ministry of Culture rejected the application, according to a confidential technical report seen by Mongabay, because it relates to the isolated Kakataibo people. The report said the Kakataibo people are already recognized by the Peruvian state and therefore measures and mechanisms for the protection of their rights have already been established. Kakataibo Extremo Norte sits above the Kakataibo North and South Indigenous Reserve (RIKNS), established in 2021 to protect groups of Kakataibo people who live in voluntary isolation. This latter reserve covers 148,997 hectares (368,180 acres) — an area roughly twice the size of New York City — straddling the departments of Loreto,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/roads-loggers-close-in-on-an-unprotected-refuge-for-isolated-kakataibo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322779</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Despite restrictions, forest loss continued on Ituna land, home to isolated people</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/despite-restrictions-forest-loss-continues-on-ituna-land-home-to-isolated-people/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2026 19:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, data, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Livestock, Ranching, Remote Sensing, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal invasions in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Pará state, home to isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava Indigenous people, has continued since 2022, during one of the latest land use restriction orders meant to protect the territory, according to satellite analysis by Mongabay. Between 2022 and 2025, data from Global Forest Watch show the area lost [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal invasions in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Pará state, home to isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava Indigenous people, has continued since 2022, during one of the latest land use restriction orders meant to protect the territory, according to satellite analysis by Mongabay. Between 2022 and 2025, data from Global Forest Watch show the area lost 2,211 hectares (5,463 acres) of tree cover. But, in the last few years, forest loss has plummeted significantly in what was one of the most deforested Indigenous lands following operations by the country’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai. Cleiton Gabriel, the coordinator of the Middle Xingu Ethno-Environmental Protection Front, a specialized Funai unit, told Mongabay via WhatsApp that the forest loss in Ituna/Itatá is caused by land-grabbers who clear the forest without authorization for cattle ranching and other agricultural activities. “The deforestation in the Ituna/Itatá region historically stems from the illegal occupation of the territory,” Gabriel explained. “This is driven by land grabbing, the establishment of agricultural activities, especially intensive livestock farming, and also smaller-scale laboratory operations, mainly cocoa processing.” The land use restriction order, which prohibits unauthorized individuals from entering Ituna/Itatá, has been in place since 2011 to protect the isolated people. The precautionary measure has been renewed six times, the most recent being in 2025. Global Forest Watch data show that Ituna/Itatá was the third-most deforested area in Brazil between 2011, the year of the first land restriction order, and 2021. It was the most deforested Indigenous land in 2019. This has affected Funai’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/despite-restrictions-forest-loss-continues-on-ituna-land-home-to-isolated-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318685</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Respecting uncontacted peoples can protect biodiversity and our humanity (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/respecting-uncontacted-peoples-can-protect-biodiversity-and-our-humanity-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2025 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kerry Bowman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Commentary, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Ethics, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Social Conflict, Social Justice, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep within the remaining tropical forests of the world, the last uncontacted peoples live in near-total isolation. Their very presence carries unintended yet powerful implications for all of us. Studies show that Indigenous territories — especially those of uncontacted groups — are among the least disturbed ecosystems on Earth. Protecting regions inhabited by uncontacted Indigenous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep within the remaining tropical forests of the world, the last uncontacted peoples live in near-total isolation. Their very presence carries unintended yet powerful implications for all of us. Studies show that Indigenous territories — especially those of uncontacted groups — are among the least disturbed ecosystems on Earth. Protecting regions inhabited by uncontacted Indigenous peoples is vital from both a human rights and environmental perspective; these territories represent some of the planet’s last intact ecosystems. The human dimension of respecting their isolation is a moral imperative, grounded in the fundamental rights to existence and self-determination. Equally significant are the longer-term environmental implications. Protected Indigenous lands function as natural sanctuaries of biodiversity, safeguarding countless plant and animal species, many of which remain undocumented by science. By preserving these untouched forests, the world also protects vast carbon sinks that regulate the planet’s climate and slow global warming. Malocas, or longhouses, of an Indigenous community living in isolation in the Loreto region of the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of ORPIO. In essence, ensuring the survival of uncontacted territories not only defends the autonomy of their inhabitants, it also sustains the living systems that uphold the Earth’s atmosphere, biodiversity and climate. In the western Amazon, the region holding the uncontacted peoples I know best, dense Indigenous territories rank among the most biodiverse places on Earth. They also hold the planet’s highest concentration of uncontacted peoples, and they are under increasing siege. While Peru and Brazil have designated large swaths as protected Indigenous land,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/respecting-uncontacted-peoples-can-protect-biodiversity-and-our-humanity-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-310537</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/report-urges-full-protection-of-worlds-196-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Oct 2025 14:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Asia, Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Latin America, Pacific Islands, Peru, South America, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Conservation, Culture, Development, Diseases, Drug Trade, Environment, extractives, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Mining, Oil Drilling, Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[“My children died. My mother died. My husband died. My brothers, my sisters, my aunts and uncles. I saw the bones sticking out of their rotting corpses inside the longhouse. We were too weak to bury them. I was left alone with my two baby brothers. All my family died, and all we got in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[“My children died. My mother died. My husband died. My brothers, my sisters, my aunts and uncles. I saw the bones sticking out of their rotting corpses inside the longhouse. We were too weak to bury them. I was left alone with my two baby brothers. All my family died, and all we got in return were a few machetes.” This story comes from a Matis Indigenous woman living in Brazil and speaking to an anthropologist in the 1990s. Her people were almost wiped out in the years after they were initially contacted by outsiders in the 1970s. Loggers and wildcat miners brought in diseases, mainly influenza, against which the Matis had little resistance. Testimonies like this one from the Matis Indigenous woman convinced Survival International of the urgent need to campaign to safeguard the collective rights of the Indigenous, tribal and uncontacted peoples of the world, whom the human rights organization says must be left alone and fully protected. On Oct. 27, the NGO published a 300-page report, Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples: at the Edge of Survival, documenting the past and looming threats posed by contact and offering up the experiences of numerous Indigenous peoples whose lives have been uprooted, disrupted and forever changed by contact. It states: “In particular, the rush by extractive industries and agribusiness to seize the resources of uncontacted peoples risks their total annihilation.” A Tupá Matis Indigenous person near the Itui river in the Javari Valley, Brazil. The Matis were devastated by western diseases after&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/report-urges-full-protection-of-worlds-196-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-308336</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/methods-to-recognize-the-amazons-isolated-peoples-interview-with-antenor-vaz/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jun 2025 14:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Politics, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases. Driven by the devastating consequences of past contact, in 1987 the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases. Driven by the devastating consequences of past contact, in 1987 the Brazilian state instituted a public policy that sought to respect and protect Indigenous peoples in isolation. The no-contact principle was then included in the country’s Federal Constitution in 1988, which set new standards that recognized Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, their territories and “uses, customs and traditions.” That same year, Antenor Vaz, an international expert on recognition methodologies and protection policies for the isolated and initially contacted communities, was approached by Funai, Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs, with a job proposal. The agency had obtained information about unrecognized people in the Amazonian state of Rondônia. Vaz was asked to coordinate, alongside Francisco de Assis Costa, a special front to confirm the existence of the uncontacted people and to develop, for the first time, new procedures to record evidence of uncontacted people while maintaining the no-contact principle. He accepted. Antenor Vaz is an international expert in recognition methodologies and protection policies for Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI). Image courtesy of Antenor Vaz. This work eventually led to the recognition of the Massaco Indigenous Territory, which was the country’s first such territory designated for the exclusive occupation of Indigenous peoples of as yet&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/methods-to-recognize-the-amazons-isolated-peoples-interview-with-antenor-vaz/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/colombias-amazon-peoples-provide-solutions-interview-with-jose-homero-mutumbajoy/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2025 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Logging, Mining, Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country&#8217;s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Peruvian Amazon here and Brazilian Amazon here. NEW YORK CITY — Mongabay caught up with José Homero Mutumbajoy, an Indigenous rights defender in Colombia, to get his [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country&#8217;s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Peruvian Amazon here and Brazilian Amazon here. NEW YORK CITY — Mongabay caught up with José Homero Mutumbajoy, an Indigenous rights defender in Colombia, to get his view on some of the latest and biggest issues affecting Indigenous communities and forests in the country’s Amazon as well as the solutions he believes are needed. Homero Mutumbajoy spoke with us at one of the world’s largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City. There, representatives from across the globe came to spotlight issues they face in their country — often in front of their country’s government officials. Our conversation touched on Libero Cobre (Libero Copper), a Canadian mining company that is on the minds of Indigenous rights organizations in the region. We also discussed ongoing conflicts with armed groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia  (FARC), the creation of a territory for the isolated Yuri-Passé, solutions to protect forests for isolated peoples and plans for the upcoming U.N. climate conference. About 30% of Colombia is covered by the Amazon Rainforest, and the region of Caquetá, home to several Indigenous peoples, leads the nation in tree cover loss, with more than 521,000 hectares (1.3 million acres) of primary forest lost since 2001. “While many illegal armed actors are trying to take control of our territories&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/colombias-amazon-peoples-provide-solutions-interview-with-jose-homero-mutumbajoy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The latest issues in Peru’s Amazon: Interview with Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/the-latest-issues-in-perus-amazon-interview-with-indigenous-leader-julio-cusurichi/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2025 21:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Rainforests, Religions, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the first of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country&#8217;s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Colombian Amazon here and Brazilian Amazon here. At one of the world’s largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the first of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country&#8217;s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Colombian Amazon here and Brazilian Amazon here. At one of the world’s largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples, the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City, leaders from across the globe came to spotlight issues they face in their country — often in front of their country’s government officials. Among them was Julio Cusurichi Palacios, a prominent Indigenous leader from Peru, who spoke with us about his view on some of the latest and biggest events affecting Indigenous communities and forests in the country’s Amazon as well as the solutions he believes are needed. Our conversation touched on a recent resolution to increase sustainable oil palm cultivation in the Amazon, an appeal hearing for illegal loggers convicted of killing four Indigenous leaders, Pope Francis’ passing and visit to the Amazon, and ongoing delays in the creation of territories for isolated peoples. More than half of Peru lies within the rainforest, and three Amazon regions — home to many Indigenous communities — lead the nation in tree cover loss, with more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of primary forest lost since 2001. “The knowledge of Indigenous peoples must be strengthened,” Cusurichi Palacios said. “It can help, and perhaps even solve, the great problems and disasters facing our planet.” A leader since the ’90s, Cusurichi Palacios won the environmental Goldman&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/the-latest-issues-in-perus-amazon-interview-with-indigenous-leader-julio-cusurichi/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indigenous-delegates-at-the-u-n-raise-alarm-on-voluntary-isolated-peoples/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Apr 2025 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, South America, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Environmental Policy, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Mining, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues — the world’s largest convening of Indigenous peoples — Indigenous leaders from South America are taking the chance to spotlight threats facing isolated peoples (also known as uncontacted people). Deforestation is closing in on some communities in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues — the world’s largest convening of Indigenous peoples — Indigenous leaders from South America are taking the chance to spotlight threats facing isolated peoples (also known as uncontacted people). Deforestation is closing in on some communities in the Amazon and many lack official recognition of records of their existence, say representatives at the 10-day gathering in the U.N. headquarters in New York City. They are holding multiple events in the city, including launching a book with strategies to recognize their presence and sharing solutions to protect the lands they depend on. “There needs to be greater respect, protection and land demarcation for these peoples,” said Bushe Matis, general coordinator of the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Vale do Javari (UNIVAJA). “It’s important for us Indigenous peoples who came to New York to raise our voices for them.” The rights of isolated Indigenous peoples are guaranteed in international legislation and some national laws, such as the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO Convention 169). However, these are at times violated by states, companies, and invaders searching for land. In some cases, they are unprotected because states, including Venezuela and Paraguay, don’t recognize them. Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation and initial contact, also known as PIACI, are threatened by the exploitation of natural resources, drug trafficking, illegal logging, and mining in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indigenous-delegates-at-the-u-n-raise-alarm-on-voluntary-isolated-peoples/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/colombia-creates-landmark-territory-to-protect-uncontacted-indigenous-groups/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Mar 2025 01:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Colombia, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forests, Gold Mining, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Mining, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular contact with the rest of the world. Located in the southern department of Amazonas, the over 1-million-hectare (2.7-million-acre) territory stretches between the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers that the uncontacted Indigenous Yuri-Passé people call home. It’s the country’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular contact with the rest of the world. Located in the southern department of Amazonas, the over 1-million-hectare (2.7-million-acre) territory stretches between the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers that the uncontacted Indigenous Yuri-Passé people call home. It’s the country’s first protected area specifically designed for people living in isolation. “Through this resolution, Colombia is taking a key step towards the protection of the rights and territory of Indigenous groups in isolation, reaffirming its commitment to their autonomy and survival,” said a statement from Amazon Conservation Team, one of the organizations that helped create the territory. The territory prohibits economic development and forced human contact. Part of it overlaps with Río Puré National Park and includes an adjacent buffer zone that will act as a transition space to help limit human disturbances, Amazon Conservation Team said in the statement. Long houses of uncontacted groups. Photo by Cristobal Von Rothkirch/ACT. The creation of the territory follows years of advocacy by human rights and conservation groups to establish laws recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples living in isolation, as well as to develop mechanisms for safeguarding lands they depend on. Only last year, the Ministry of Interior confirmed that there were groups living in isolation in that part of the Amazon Rainforest, a remote area near the border of Peru and Brazil. The Ministry of Interior didn’t respond to a request for comment. For decades before that, neighboring&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/colombia-creates-landmark-territory-to-protect-uncontacted-indigenous-groups/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/isolated-tribes-at-one-of-the-last-frontiers-of-brazils-amazon-as-deforestation-pressure-grows/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2025 19:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Forests, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Land Conflict, Logging, Rainforests, Roads, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8217;re curious about us, and we&#8217;re curious about them.&#8221; That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a small Indigenous group that had just contacted non-Indigenous society in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know their language yet, but we communicate all the time. We share food, we fish for them, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;They&#8217;re curious about us, and we&#8217;re curious about them.&#8221; That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a small Indigenous group that had just contacted non-Indigenous society in the depths of the Brazilian Amazon. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know their language yet, but we communicate all the time. We share food, we fish for them, and they accompany us on hunts,&#8221; says Cangussu, an official with Funai, Brazil&#8217;s federal agency for Indigenous affairs. The Indigenous group in question has lived for centuries in one of the Amazon Rainforest&#8217;s best-preserved areas, a region known as Mamoriá Grande, named after a tributary of the Purus River — itself one of the main tributaries of the Amazon — that crosses the territory. Their first contact occurred on Feb. 12, when a young man appeared in a nearby river community. &#8220;He came out of the woods because he had lost his fire,&#8221; says Cangussu, who coordinates Funai&#8217;s Madeira Purus Ethno-Environmental Protection Front, responsible for protecting the isolated Indigenous peoples of southern Amazonas state. An isolated Indigenous family comprising a couple and a baby, got lost from the rest of their group in the Mamoriá Grande area. Image courtesy of Daniel Cangussu. After providing food and medical assistance, Funai agents helped the man return to the point in the forest where he came from. A few days later, the agents realized he was still in the same area, now accompanied by his family: a woman and a baby about a year old. &#8220;We realized that not&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/isolated-tribes-at-one-of-the-last-frontiers-of-brazils-amazon-as-deforestation-pressure-grows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/ecuador-must-improve-conditions-for-uncontacted-indigenous-communities-human-rights-court-rules/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2025 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Logging, Oil Drilling, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[An international court published its ruling this month that the Ecuadorian government was responsible for a long list of human rights violations against uncontacted Indigenous communities in the Amazon Rainforest. It’s the first case of its kind examining protections for people who live outside of regular contact with the rest of the world. The Inter-American [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An international court published its ruling this month that the Ecuadorian government was responsible for a long list of human rights violations against uncontacted Indigenous communities in the Amazon Rainforest. It’s the first case of its kind examining protections for people who live outside of regular contact with the rest of the world. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruled that the government violated numerous rights of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples and failed to prevent violent attacks against them. The historic decision should improve safeguards for people living in voluntary isolation in Ecuador and beyond, activists said. “This ruling is very important,” Pedro Bermeo, a spokesperson for YASunidos, an anti-extractives group and co-petitioner in the case, told Mongabay. “It marks a ‘before and after’ in the lives of uncontacted peoples — not only in Ecuador, not even just in Latin America, but in the world.” The office of the president and the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Ecological Transition didn’t respond to a request for comment. The nomadic Tagaeri and Taromenane rely on hunting and gathering in the Amazon Rainforest of eastern Ecuador, but the area has also been an attractive location for oil development. Several of the country’s largest oil fields, including Blocks 31 and 43, are located on Indigenous peoples’ ancestral land. The IACHR during the trial in August 2022. Photo courtesy of IACHR/Flickr. In 1999, the government banned extractive activities on some ancestral land through the creation of the approximately 7,000-square-kilometer (2,700-square-mile) Tagaeri&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/ecuador-must-improve-conditions-for-uncontacted-indigenous-communities-human-rights-court-rules/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Calls for protection as new images emerge of uncontacted Amazonian tribe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/calls-for-protection-as-new-images-emerge-of-uncontacted-amazonian-tribe/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Jan 2025 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Photos, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Unprecedented images of uncontacted Indigenous people in Brazil’s Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region, have prompted a push for greater enforcement to protect the land of these vulnerable populations.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Unprecedented images of uncontacted Indigenous people in Brazil’s Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region, have prompted a push for greater enforcement to protect the land of these vulnerable populations. The images, released earlier this month by Funai, the federal agency for Indigenous affairs, revealed a group of nine men, ranging in age from about 20 to 40 years. A trail camera installed in the Indigenous territory had captured the images in February 2024, Funai said, showing the men were collecting machetes and axes left behind by a 2021 expedition. Upon retrieving the data from the camera, officials found — “unsurprisingly” — spiked traps left by the group in the area before they left the site, Funai added. “We can see that it was a planned and organized approach, with a group of people, only men, most of them young, prepared with countless made-up sticks that were placed in the areas where the non-Indigenous people were present and on the trail itself, where they arrived and returned in case anyone followed them,” Altair Algayer, a Funai sertanista, someone deeply knowledgeable about the remote Brazilian wilderness, said in a news release. A trail camera installed in the Massaco Indigenous Territory captured unprecedented images of a group of nine men from an uncontacted tribe collecting machetes and axes left behind by officials from Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai. Image courtesy of Funai. Between January and April 2024, Funai officials recorded traces and activities of uncontacted groups in the Massaco territory. Beyond the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/calls-for-protection-as-new-images-emerge-of-uncontacted-amazonian-tribe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/peruvian-logger-loses-fsc-label-after-latest-clash-with-isolated-mashco-piro/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Sep 2024 16:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dan Collyns]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, extractives, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Logging, Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Forest Stewardship Council has suspended its certification of a controversial logging company in the Peruvian Amazon accused of encroaching on the traditional territory of the Mashco Piro, an Indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation. The move on Aug. 30 by the FSC, the world’s leading certifier of sustainable forestry products, followed reports indicating that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Forest Stewardship Council has suspended its certification of a controversial logging company in the Peruvian Amazon accused of encroaching on the traditional territory of the Mashco Piro, an Indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation. The move on Aug. 30 by the FSC, the world’s leading certifier of sustainable forestry products, followed reports indicating that at least two loggers were shot dead with arrows, one injured and several others missing following a confrontation with the Mashco Piro on Aug. 29. The incident was reported by FENAMAD, a local Indigenous federation that represents 39 communities in Peru’s Cusco and Madre de Dios regions. Peru’s Ministry of Culture said in a statement on Sept. 2 that it was investigating the reports and coordinating with the local prosecutors’ office and police to deploy a helicopter to the area where the incident took place on the Pariamanu River. There’s no official confirmation yet of whether the killed and missing loggers worked for the logging company, or if Mashco Piro members were responsible. The FSC has suspended for eight months its certification for Maderera Canales Tahuamanu (MCT), a logging company whose concession borders the 829,941-hectare (2.05-million-acre) Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve, home to the Mashco Piro. It said the certification would be suspended from Sept. 13 while it investigates the case and meets with Peruvian authorities to &#8220;understand the land classification issues.&#8221; The FSC added that it had imposed the suspension in “response to concerns about the MCT’s forest management concession’s location relative to the territory&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/peruvian-logger-loses-fsc-label-after-latest-clash-with-isolated-mashco-piro/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/one-year-after-oil-referendum-whats-next-for-ecuadors-yasuni-national-park/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Aug 2024 16:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Deforestation, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Oil, Oil Drilling, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[One year since Ecuador citizens voted on Aug. 20, 2023, to halt all future oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, the government is nowhere near close to meeting its deadline. After the historic referendum, the country’s Constitutional Court gave the government and the state-owned oil company Petroecuador one year to close the 43-ITT oil block [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One year since Ecuador citizens voted on Aug. 20, 2023, to halt all future oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, the government is nowhere near close to meeting its deadline. After the historic referendum, the country’s Constitutional Court gave the government and the state-owned oil company Petroecuador one year to close the 43-ITT oil block (known as Block 43 or Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini) in the protected area home to isolated peoples in the country’s eastern Amazon. Progress toward the goal has been small, say the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE). Besides the creation of a commission to oversee the implementation of the referendum results, which was announced nine months after the vote, the government has not carried out any actions to decommission the 43-ITT oil block. According to Petroecuador’s statistical report, the state-owned oil company responsible for the oil block, they were still carrying out operations up until June, when they had their latest assessment of oil production. Between January and June, the block produced 50,454 barrels of oil per day, which is only 3.6% less than they had produced during the same period last year. “So far, no one has approached the Waorani nationality,” Gilberto Mincaye Nenquimo Enqueri, the ex-president of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador (NAWE), told Mongabay. Their ancestral territory includes the entire Yasuní Biosphere Reserve region, and like other Indigenous peoples, they are not included in overseeing the implementation of the referendum results. “The Constitutional&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/one-year-after-oil-referendum-whats-next-for-ecuadors-yasuni-national-park/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/after-isolated-tribes-rare-appearance-in-peruvian-amazon-big-questions-remain-for-their-future/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jul 2024 15:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dan Collyns]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Logging, Rainforests, Roads, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[As images of dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon sparked huge worldwide media coverage, questions remain about whether the government will finally mark off land for them after years of strife. The images released by the campaign group Survival International in early July show around [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As images of dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon sparked huge worldwide media coverage, questions remain about whether the government will finally mark off land for them after years of strife. The images released by the campaign group Survival International in early July show around 50 members of the Mashco Piro tribe asking for food from a village of Indigenous Yine people called Monte Salvado, which sits on the opposite bank of Las Piedras River in Peru’s southeastern Madre de Dios region. The images date from June 26 and 27. Two weeks later, another group of 17 appeared by the nearby village of Puerto Nuevo, said the NGO, which defends Indigenous rights, in an apparent distraction tactic while other members of the tribe raided plantains from Yine allotments. Ricardo García Pinedo, director of the general-directorate for the rights of Indigenous peoples at Peru’s Ministry of Culture, told Mongabay the videos were positive in that they provided “reliable evidence that Indigenous peoples in isolation exist” after some attempts to deny their existence in the country. He added that the group was asking for “plantains and rope” from the Monte Salvado community, with whom they have a “constant relationship.” The seldom-seen tribe live in the 829,941-hectare (2 million-acre) Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve, a protected area, but experts say their ancestral territory extends beyond it into several nearby forestry concessions. This overlap includes the Maderera Canales Tahuamanu (MCT) concession, which is certified&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/after-isolated-tribes-rare-appearance-in-peruvian-amazon-big-questions-remain-for-their-future/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>BASF, Eramet drop $2.6b Indonesian nickel project that threatens isolated tribe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/basf-eramet-drop-2-6b-indonesian-nickel-project-that-threatens-isolated-tribe/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jul 2024 14:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Maluku, North Maluku, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conflict, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Electric Cars, Energy, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Mining, Natural Resources, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — German chemical giant BASF and French miner Eramet have pulled out of a multibillion-dollar “green energy” project in Indonesia because of its impact on one of the last Indigenous tribes on Earth living in voluntary isolation. In an announcement on June 24, both companies said they had scrapped plans to invest up to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — German chemical giant BASF and French miner Eramet have pulled out of a multibillion-dollar “green energy” project in Indonesia because of its impact on one of the last Indigenous tribes on Earth living in voluntary isolation. In an announcement on June 24, both companies said they had scrapped plans to invest up to $2.6 billion in the project on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia’s eastern province of North Maluku. The Sonic Bay project would have seen the construction of a refinery producing about 67,000 metric tons of nickel and 7,500 metric tons of cobalt a year. These metals, crucial ingredients in electric vehicle batteries, would have come from the nearby Weda Bay Nickel mine, the world’s largest nickel mine, in which Eramet holds a minority stake. In its announcement, BASF said it would “stop all ongoing evaluation and negotiation activities for the project in Weda Bay.” The decision came after a sustained campaign by activists voicing concerns that the Sonic Bay refinery, which is essentially an extension of the Weda Bay Nickel project, would increase the risk of Indigenous peoples in the area losing their lands. Weda Bay Nickel’s concession overlaps with rainforest that’s home to hundreds of members of the Forest Tobelo people, according to U.K.-based Indigenous rights NGO Survival International, which has lobbied both BASF and the German authorities to drop out of the project. Eramet&#8217;s Weda Bay Nickel mine on the territory of the uncontacted Forest Tobelo people in Halmahera, Indonesia. Image courtesy of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/basf-eramet-drop-2-6b-indonesian-nickel-project-that-threatens-isolated-tribe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru &#038; Brazil aim to protect isolated groups</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cross-border-indigenous-efforts-in-peru-brazil-aim-to-protect-isolated-groups/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Apr 2024 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Logging, Politics, Protected Areas, Saving Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous organizations from Peru and Brazil are joining forces to push their respective governments to safeguard a 16-million-hectare (39.5-million-acre) territorial corridor in the Amazon that stretches from the Tapiche River in Peru to the Yavarí River in Brazil. The 15 Indigenous organizations, which include the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon (ORPIO) from Peru and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous organizations from Peru and Brazil are joining forces to push their respective governments to safeguard a 16-million-hectare (39.5-million-acre) territorial corridor in the Amazon that stretches from the Tapiche River in Peru to the Yavarí River in Brazil. The 15 Indigenous organizations, which include the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon (ORPIO) from Peru and the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javarí Valley from Brazil, plan to create a binational commission to define cross-border policies for the protection of peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) who live inside the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor and cross freely between both countries. The corridor spreads across the departments of Loreto and Ucayali in Peru and Amazonas and Acre in Brazil and is also home to the greatest diversity of primates in the world, including spider monkeys (Ateles belzebuth) and pygmy marmosets (Callithrix pygmaea). “We proposed the creation of a binational commission made up of Indigenous organizations to strengthen the protection strategies of the PIACI, as well as to call for and demand urgent action from countries to stop the territorial invasions,” said Apu Miguel Manihuari Tamani, an Indigenous leader who forms part of ORPIO’s board of directors. “[There’s a] need to articulate efforts for the monitoring, management and surveillance of the territory between Indigenous organizations, both at the national and cross-border levels.” This effort faces challenges from politicians in both countries who favor an agribusiness and development model that would scrap and restrict the recognition of Indigenous territories for plantations or industry.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cross-border-indigenous-efforts-in-peru-brazil-aim-to-protect-isolated-groups/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281104</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/promise-of-full-demarcation-for-isolated-amazon-tribe-rings-hollow-for-some/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jan 2024 15:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conflict, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the final stages in demarcating the Amazonian territory of the isolated Kawahiva tribe is set to take place this year, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples has announced. It’s taken nearly 23 years of work by Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, to mark off land for the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo territory in Mato [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the final stages in demarcating the Amazonian territory of the isolated Kawahiva tribe is set to take place this year, Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples has announced. It’s taken nearly 23 years of work by Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, to mark off land for the Kawahiva do Rio Pardo territory in Mato Grosso state. But some Indigenous experts remain skeptical the territory will ever be demarcated in the face of constant delays and structural problems within Funai. “It doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen,” Jair Candor, coordinator of the Funai unit that safeguards the Kawahiva, told Mongabay. “I don’t see any actions in favor of demarcation.” Demarcation would grant the Indigenous territory formal recognition by the Brazilian government, and make it off-limits to loggers, miners, ranchers and development projects that could degrade the area’s resources. Indigenous rights advocates see the demarcation process as “essential” for the Kawahiva, a group of about 45-50 individuals who live in voluntary isolation from the rest of the world after reportedly facing a series of massacres by invaders over recent decades. They are the last survivors of the Kawahiva peoples, one of numerous groups who once occupied vast tracts of the Amazon Rainforest. An abandoned Kawahiva camp. Image by Funai. On Aug. 8, 2023, the Supreme Federal Court ordered the government to “adopt all necessary measures” to fully protect territories that are home to isolated Indigenous peoples. The ruling gave officials 60 days to present an action plan for demarcation of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/promise-of-full-demarcation-for-isolated-amazon-tribe-rings-hollow-for-some/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/the-coveted-legacy-of-the-man-of-the-hole-and-his-cultivated-amazon-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Nov 2023 07:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fabio Zuker]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Film, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous people and advocates are fighting for the Tanaru Indigenous land to remain an Indigenous territory, but ranchers want to take possession of the plot to turn it into pastures and soy fields.]]>
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							<![CDATA[One night in 1995, amid daily efforts to obtain an image of Tanaru, Indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli had a nightmare. He dreamed that he took a safari rifle and shot a sedative dart from a distance, making the Indigenous man fall asleep. Then, he could finally film him and prove his existence. Remembered a quarter of a century later, this bad dream reveals the dilemmas experienced by Carelli over the two decades he worked on his documentary Corumbiara. Carelli had been trying for days to film Tanaru. His goal was to send the footage to a federal judge to prove an isolated Indigenous man was living in the middle of a forest that dwindled every day in the southern area of the Brazilian Amazonian state of Rondônia. The video could ignite the process of designating the land as an Indigenous territory, a protected status in Brazil that forbids non-Indigenous people from entering the land or exploiting it in any way. Since the 1980s, the region has been occupied by farmers who struggled to obtain proper land titles. If authorities were ever to recognize the land as an Indigenous site, the farmers would have to leave the place. They were willing to fight with all means at their disposal. The documentary filmmaker surrounded him with two other Indigenous experts from Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, and some recently contacted Kanoê individuals. While the Kanoê performed rituals to attract Tanaru and the Funai employees offered machetes and tools, Carelli tried&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/the-coveted-legacy-of-the-man-of-the-hole-and-his-cultivated-amazon-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil&#8217;s Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/new-online-map-tracks-threats-to-brazilian-amazons-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Sep 2023 15:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Crime, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Logging, Mapping, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Technology, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, Violence, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO — Monitoring the threats that uncontacted traditional peoples face in the Brazilian Amazon is set to become easier for Indigenous rights activists and agencies, thanks to a new software tool developed by three Indigenous organizations and made available online in September. Mopi is an online interactive map that gathers a mix of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO — Monitoring the threats that uncontacted traditional peoples face in the Brazilian Amazon is set to become easier for Indigenous rights activists and agencies, thanks to a new software tool developed by three Indigenous organizations and made available online in September. Mopi is an online interactive map that gathers a mix of public databases, government statistics and field observations and consolidates them into one space, providing a comprehensive picture of uncontacted Indigenous peoples’ lands and the factors that threaten their health and well-being. Their location is deliberately hidden to avoid the exact identification of their territories and any subsequent attacks against them. The platform went offline soon after its initial inauguration on Aug. 15 due to technical issues, but operations were resumed in September. The official launch date coincided with what would have been the 42nd birthday of Bruno Pereira, the Indigenous rights defender who was murdered in June 2022 in the Amazon’s Javari Valley, alongside British journalist Dom Phillips. Pereira, who was the founder of Opi, was one of the creators behind Mopi when the idea was initially conceived. The other organizations involved in Mopi’s launch are the Coordination of Brazilian Amazon Indigenous Organizations (COIAB) and the Native Amazon Operation (OPAN). Logging in the Amacro region, the triple border between Brazilian states Acre, Amazonas and Rondônia. This region has been subjected to intensive deforestation, illegal occupation of public lands, mining, human-made fires, and extensive logging. Image © Bruno Kelly/Greenpeace. The map displays land ownership across the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/new-online-map-tracks-threats-to-brazilian-amazons-uncontacted-indigenous-peoples/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/ecuador-referendum-halts-oil-extraction-in-yasuni-national-park/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Aug 2023 21:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yesterday, Ecuador voted to halt all future oil drilling in a sensitive protected area known for its fragile rainforest ecosystem and isolated Indigenous communities. Millions of people participated in a nationwide referendum to determine whether crude oil should “remain in the subsoil” indefinitely at a site inside Yasuní National Park in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon. More [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yesterday, Ecuador voted to halt all future oil drilling in a sensitive protected area known for its fragile rainforest ecosystem and isolated Indigenous communities. Millions of people participated in a nationwide referendum to determine whether crude oil should “remain in the subsoil” indefinitely at a site inside Yasuní National Park in Ecuador’s eastern Amazon. More than 5.2 million people voted in favor compared with 3.6 million against, solidifying protections for Indigenous communities living in voluntary isolation. “It was worth going out campaigning in the different provinces of Ecuador. We’ve traveled through the Amazon, the mountains and the coast — and this is the result,” Norma Nenquimo, vice president of the Waorani people of Ecuador, told Mongabay as the voting results came in Monday morning. The referendum concerned whether to close an oil block in the park known as Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT), where excavation has been underway since 2016 despite outcry from conservationists and some local Indigenous communities. The area currently has 12 oil platforms and 230 wells producing around 57,000 barrels of oil per day, according to operators. Hear this reporter discuss the referendum result on Mongabay&#8217;s podcast, listen here: Oil production in the area has been a major driver of economic growth and generated more than $4.2 billion in revenue for the country, which for years has been one of South America’s top producers. Crude oil production accounts for nearly 30% of its total exports, with around 8 billion barrels produced last year. Napo River in Yasuni National Park with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/ecuador-referendum-halts-oil-extraction-in-yasuni-national-park/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/can-upcoming-referendum-in-ecuador-stop-oil-drilling-in-yasuni-national-park/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Aug 2023 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kimberley Brown]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Law, Oil Drilling, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Roads, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorians have been given a chance to vote on whether or not they want oil drilling to continue in Yasuní National Park, deep in the northern Amazon Rainforest. The park has long been considered one of the most biodiverse on the planet, and is home to the country’s last two Indigenous communities [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorians have been given a chance to vote on whether or not they want oil drilling to continue in Yasuní National Park, deep in the northern Amazon Rainforest. The park has long been considered one of the most biodiverse on the planet, and is home to the country’s last two Indigenous communities in voluntary isolation, the Tagaeri and Taromenane. But oil income has also been a major driver of economic growth for the country over the past decade, and Yasuní itself has some of the largest reserves in the country providing jobs and income to those living nearby — including to many Indigenous communities. Despite Ecuador’s dependence on the commodity, environmentalists say the referendum is giving Ecuadorians the chance to question this relationship. “What is going to happen now, hopefully, is to set a precedent where we have the possibility to question the dependence on oil, and we could also open the space to question other fields as well,” says Melissa Moreano Venegas, professor in the department of environment and sustainability at Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito and co-editor of the book The Exploitation of Yasuní: In the Midst of the Global Oil Collapse. Oil trucks being hauled on boats between extraction sites, regular traffic along the Napo river as there are no roads in these areas. Image by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay. Yasuní’s long history with oil The referendum on Yasuní will take place Aug. 20, the same day as the next presidential elections, which&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/can-upcoming-referendum-in-ecuador-stop-oil-drilling-in-yasuni-national-park/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/bill-stripping-perus-isolated-indigenous-people-of-land-and-protections-scrapped/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jul 2023 18:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Dimitri Selibas]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Development, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Law, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bill eyeing to strip uncontacted Indigenous people in Peru of lands and protections was officially scrapped at the end of June. This legislative proposal, called a “step backward” by critical Indigenous and conservation organizations, garnered widespread attention and sought to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bill eyeing to strip uncontacted Indigenous people in Peru of lands and protections was officially scrapped at the end of June. This legislative proposal, called a “step backward” by critical Indigenous and conservation organizations, garnered widespread attention and sought to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situations (known as PIACI in Spanish). Put forward by Jorge Morante Figari, a right-wing congressman from the oil-rich Loreto region in Peru’s Amazon, the bill, known as known as PL 3518/2022, planned to shift responsibility for the creation of Indigenous reserves from the national government to the regional governments. It also proposed to re-evaluate the existence of every Indigenous reserve for isolated peoples to determine whether to keep them or scrap them completely. Indigenous reserves often take many years to establish and aim to protect isolated peoples from diseases and the destruction of ecosystems they rely on, in part by prohibiting the entrance of outsiders and extractive industries like oil drilling and logging. “I’m very happy because we’ve worked hard to stop this draft bill, which violates the rights of uncontacted tribes and those in initial contact,” said Tabea Casique, national council leader of Peru’s Indigenous Amazonian association (AIDESEP), one of the Indigenous organizations that lobbied to stop the bill. “The scrapping of the draft bill protects our uncontacted relatives, their rights and their lives and avoids the genocide and ecocide that it would have unleashed,” said Casique. Loreto’s regional government supported the bill&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/bill-stripping-perus-isolated-indigenous-people-of-land-and-protections-scrapped/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Q&#038;A with Sydney Possuelo, the most prominent specialist in isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/qa-with-sydney-possuelo-the-most-prominent-specialist-in-isolated-indigenous-peoples-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2023 10:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolina Conti]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sydney Possuelo was just a teenager when he became close with two men he viewed as national heroes: the Villas-Bôas brothers, fundamental figures in the creation of Xingu Indigenous Park, the first registered Indigenous territory in Brazil, founded in 1961. He accompanied them on expeditions into the Brazilian Amazon, also under the influence of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sydney Possuelo was just a teenager when he became close with two men he viewed as national heroes: the Villas-Bôas brothers, fundamental figures in the creation of Xingu Indigenous Park, the first registered Indigenous territory in Brazil, founded in 1961. He accompanied them on expeditions into the Brazilian Amazon, also under the influence of the legacy of Cândido Rondon, a military general and sertanista, or specialist in the sertão, what was then considered the undeveloped interior regions of Brazil. Rondon at the time also headed what was then known as the Indian Protection Service (SPI) and was an early supporter of establishing the Xingu reserve, which would come into being a few years after his death. Later that decade, in 1967, the National Indian Foundation (Funai, now the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples) was created, in which Possuelo served as a sertanista, one of the official positions then available in the federal agency. In the 1990s, he became president of Funai, and during his tenure helped demarcate more than 100 Indigenous territories throughout Brazil. In his 42 years at Funai, Possuelo created the Department of Isolated Indians, a division dedicated to protecting uncontacted peoples — a topic on which he would become the country&#8217;s foremost expert. “The idea was: Let&#8217;s go find these isolated Indigenous peoples and make contact. I had the opportunity to meet seven groups who came out of the jungle for the first time,” he says in the documentary Sydney Possuelo, uma Vida Amazônica (Sydney Possuelo, an&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/qa-with-sydney-possuelo-the-most-prominent-specialist-in-isolated-indigenous-peoples-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections</title>
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					<pubDate>16 Mar 2023 20:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yvette Sierra Praeli]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Corporations, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Law, Logging, Oil, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new legislative proposal, criticized by opponents as a step backwards in recognizing the rights and protections of uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous people, is currently under debate in Peru’s congress. The controversial proposal, which seeks to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situations (known as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new legislative proposal, criticized by opponents as a step backwards in recognizing the rights and protections of uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous people, is currently under debate in Peru’s congress. The controversial proposal, which seeks to alter the current Law for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact Situations (known as PIACI in Spanish), could repeal the creation of some Indigenous reserves – reserves which, in many cases, took years to be declared and prevent the entry of extractive industries, like oil and logging companies. One of the changes proposed in the bill is for the creation of Indigenous reserves to no longer be a matter the national government deals with — through the ministry of culture — and instead be a matter placed in the hands of regional governments. In addition, with the approval of the bill, the status of every Indigenous reserve in Peru already approved until now would be immediately reevaluated, with the purpose of determining whether to continue with their existence as reserves, revoke their status, or scrap them entirely. A recently contacted Machiguenga girl on the outskirts of Manu National Park in Cusco, Peru. Image by Ronald Reategui. Finally, the bill proposes that while it awaits final approval, all proceedings relating to Indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact should be suspended, including the declaration of new Indigenous reserves. “If approved, [the bill] would be an attack on the survival of Indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact, an attack against&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/peru-congress-debates-stripping-isolated-indigenous-people-of-land-and-protections/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/first-ever-regional-court-trial-involving-rights-of-uncontacted-peoples-awaits-verdict/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Oct 2022 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kimberley Brown]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep in Ecuador’s northern Amazon rainforest live the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous nations, the last two communities in the country who have never set foot outside of the jungle. They have long resisted all outsiders&#8217; contact and continue fiercely defending their remaining territory. But over the years, three massacres in 2003, 2006 and 2013, have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep in Ecuador’s northern Amazon rainforest live the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous nations, the last two communities in the country who have never set foot outside of the jungle. They have long resisted all outsiders&#8217; contact and continue fiercely defending their remaining territory. But over the years, three massacres in 2003, 2006 and 2013, have whipped out dozens of Tagaeri and Taromenane people. At least two of these attacks were perpetrated by some members of the Indigenous Waorani nation, who share territory and heritage with the Tagaeri and Taromenane. In the latest 2013 massacre, two young girls were also kidnapped and have been living with their captors ever since. These acts of violence are the basis of a case currently being evaluated by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, one of the three regional human rights tribunals. In the case Tagaeri &amp; Taromenane Indigenous people vs the Ecuadorian state, lawyers representing the communities in voluntary isolation say the Ecuadorian state has failed to protect these populations and propelled the extractive industry in the area, putting pressure on the rainforest and increasing conflict between local communities. Alicia Cahuiya, coordinator on women and families at the National Indigenous Confederation (CONAIE), looks on from an audience seat during the trial. Image by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). This is the first time the regional court has tried a case involving uncontacted Indigenous peoples or peoples in voluntary isolation, setting an important precedent for similar communities in the Amazon.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/first-ever-regional-court-trial-involving-rights-of-uncontacted-peoples-awaits-verdict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/amazon-reserve-for-uncontacted-people-moving-forward-amid-battle-over-oil-fields/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2022 13:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Dimitri Selibas]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Oil, Politics, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[After a 19-year process, uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous peoples living in the Napo-Tigre region of the Peruvian Amazon have had their existence officially recognized. With an extensive anthropological study and a presidential decree supporting evidence of their presence in the area, the communities are now one step closer to being protected through the creation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After a 19-year process, uncontacted and recently contacted Indigenous peoples living in the Napo-Tigre region of the Peruvian Amazon have had their existence officially recognized. With an extensive anthropological study and a presidential decree supporting evidence of their presence in the area, the communities are now one step closer to being protected through the creation of the Napo-Tigre Indigenous reserve in the Loreto department. “We are claiming the rights of those who cannot speak,” said Apu Pablo Chota, executive council secretary of the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO). The organization has been pushing for the creation of the reserve since 2003. “[What’s] important for us is to defend life more than anything else.” The Indigenous reserve would protect the five isolated communities confirmed in the region by preventing entrance from outsiders, thus limiting the possibility of spreading diseases. The reserve would mean no settlements could be created in the area nor any natural resources extracted, whether lumber or petroleum – unless it’s declared a national priority. Nevertheless, a group of businessmen, regional government officials and a petroleum company, Perenco, are opposing the creation of the reserve and taking action to halt its creation. According to the group, it will be an obstacle to ongoing and future development in the oil-rich region. “Perenco takes pride in having played its part in successfully developing [oil] block 67, a project declared of national importance by the Peruvian government and which forms part of the country’s strategic goal of achieving energy independence,”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/amazon-reserve-for-uncontacted-people-moving-forward-amid-battle-over-oil-fields/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/mennonite-colony-builds-bridge-clears-forest-in-bolivian-protected-areas/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Jun 2022 22:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Iván Paredes Tamayo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Trackers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Agriculture, Mongabay Data Studio, Protected Areas, Tropical Forests, Uncontacted Tribes, Water, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[CUARIRENDA, Bolivia — In October 2020, residents of a Mennonite colony began clearing a road through the forest in the Cordillera province of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz. By November, the road spanned about 5 kilometers (3 miles) and ended at the Parapetí River. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc and data from the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CUARIRENDA, Bolivia — In October 2020, residents of a Mennonite colony began clearing a road through the forest in the Cordillera province of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz. By November, the road spanned about 5 kilometers (3 miles) and ended at the Parapetí River. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc and data from the University of Maryland (UMD) visualized on Global Forest Watch show clearing activity halted between November 2020 and May 2021. But in June 2021, road construction commenced on the other side of the river, and by July, a network of roads had been carved across approximately 100 square kilometers (37 square miles) of land. The network of roads appears to have been constructed in order to establish a vast plantation. Clearing between the roads began slowly in July 2021, but ramped up speed within a couple months, coinciding with the construction of a bridge across the Parapetí — allegedly done with without permits or a mandatory environmental impact assessment. Satellite imagery captured in March 2022 show larges areas of land cleared near Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park and Integrated Management Natural Area, as well as newly developed roads piercing the protected area. Clearing appears to have increased after bridge was built across the Parapetí River. Sources say the clearing activity may threaten the Bañados de Izozog wetland, which is regarded as the largest and most important wetland within the Bolivian Chaco ecoregion. According to local sources, colonists purchased 14,400 hectares (35,500 acres) of land from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/mennonite-colony-builds-bridge-clears-forest-in-bolivian-protected-areas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous group and locals sign agreement to protect sustainable livelihoods and culture</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/indigenous-group-and-locals-sign-agreement-to-protect-sustainable-livelihoods-and-culture/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 May 2022 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dimitri Selibas]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[AGUA BONITA CAMP, Colombia – Walking all day through the jungle to visit the encampments of friends and relatives is what Tumni Abtukaru misses the most about life before his community, the Indigenous Nukak, were evicted from their ancestral homeland. Arriving at an encampment, Abtukaru says he would be greeted by singing and dancing. They [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[AGUA BONITA CAMP, Colombia – Walking all day through the jungle to visit the encampments of friends and relatives is what Tumni Abtukaru misses the most about life before his community, the Indigenous Nukak, were evicted from their ancestral homeland. Arriving at an encampment, Abtukaru says he would be greeted by singing and dancing. They would then drink chicha—a fermented drink made from chontaduro, a peach palm fruit—and talk late into the night. &#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t sleep,&#8221; says Abtukaru. Now, home is a dilapidated shed in Agua Bonita camp, a 30-minute drive from the departmental capital of San José del Guaviare in Colombia&#8217;s Amazon region. After being forced from their homes by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during the country&#8217;s civil war in the 1980s, the communities see returning to their territory, a one million-hectare (2.47-million acre) Indigenous reserve, as the only way to survive and live dignified lives. Meaning “Pretty Water” in Spanish, the Nukak&#8217;s Agua Bonita camp consists of dilapidated sheds holding the communities’ hammocks and personal belongings. Image courtesy of Dimitri Selibas. About 40% of the Nukak population, who until the war had no contact with the world outside, died within five years of their eviction. Most people died from exposure to diseases such as influenza. Colombia&#8217;s Constitutional Court regards the remaining 600 Nukak as at risk of physical and cultural extermination. Currently, an estimated 120 live in the Indigenous resguardo (reserve), refusing to leave despite the danger of FARC dissidents in the area, while most&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/indigenous-group-and-locals-sign-agreement-to-protect-sustainable-livelihoods-and-culture/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/politicized-indigenous-affairs-agency-puts-brazils-uncontacted-groups-at-risk/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Feb 2022 18:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Environmental Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Politics, Rainforests, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs snubbed new evidence of uncontacted Indigenous groups found by two expeditions in the Amazon last year, heightening concerns about political interference in the government body and the growing threat to the survival of Indigenous groups in voluntary isolation. Critics say it’s increasingly clear that the agency, known as Funai, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs snubbed new evidence of uncontacted Indigenous groups found by two expeditions in the Amazon last year, heightening concerns about political interference in the government body and the growing threat to the survival of Indigenous groups in voluntary isolation. Critics say it’s increasingly clear that the agency, known as Funai, is acting against the interests of isolated Indigenous groups. Documents leaked in January show an apparent political ruse to discredit evidence about the uncontacted Igarapé-Ipiaçava Indigenous people in Pará state. Another investigation revealed that Funai has ignored reports of a previously unknown isolated Indigenous group in Amazonas state. A now-overturned decision by the government body attempted to increase the burden of proof required for protecting uncontacted Indigenous groups. Photos of evidence found in the September expedition on the Ituna-Itatá Indigenous Reserve. A turtle shell and ceramic vase were the main findings that point to the uncontacted Indigenous presence in the region. Image credit: Funai. “It’s a violation of the right to life. We’re not talking about human rights as a broad concept here, it’s their right to survival as human beings that is being denied,” Angela Kaxuyana, an executive member of the Brazilian Amazon Indigenous organization COIAB, told Mongabay. “For us, the Indigenous peoples on the front lines, Funai’s line of action is completely at odds with our interests.” Isolated groups actively avoid contact with the outside world and reside in remote areas, so collecting information about them is tricky. Most groups are identified through&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/politicized-indigenous-affairs-agency-puts-brazils-uncontacted-groups-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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