Peru - host of the COP20 UN climate conference now under way in Lima - is facing rebellion by a 3,500 strong indigenous people deep in the Amazon committed to fighting oil exploration in their forest territory, writes David Hill, following the government's failure to consult Matsés communities or respect their rights.
… 'It's war!' Peru-Brazil indigenous people pledge to fight … | 8th December 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Brazil Peru Oil Fossil Fuels War Corpoirations … indigenous people living on both sides of the Brazil-Peru border in the remote Amazon say …
The Amazon basin faces 'ecosystem collapse' according to a new report about hundreds of major dams and other mega-projects planned for the region - home to the world's greatest rainforest. David Hill reports.
… under construction or proposed, 256 are in Brazil, 77 in Peru, 55 in Ecuador, 14 in … in the exploratory phase for oil and gas by Brazilian state company Petrobras, which has … under construction or proposed in the Brazilian Amazon. 151 - number of proposals …
Stripping OSINFOR of independence is a major step back in protecting the Peruvian Amazon.
… region stretching all the way to Bolivia and Brazil. Widespread illegalities What the … biggest tropical forest worldwide after Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and …
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park
… only town, to a settlement on the Peru-Brazil border, Inapari, where it would connect … to Peru's Pacific coast in one direction and Brazil's Atlantic coast in the other. The … the Penan in Sarawak and the Guarani in Brazil - facing similar threats but being …
A month-long blockade of the Rio Tigre deep in the Peruvian Amazon has secured promises of compensation and cleanup for Peru's Kichwa communities who have suffered 40 years of contaminated waters from oil drilling operations in their remote Amazon region. But until the funds materialize, they are holding firm in their resolve.
… straddles Peru's border with Amazonas, Brazil threatened at attack any oil workers …
Politicians deny the existence of isolated tribes like the Mashco-Piro as oil, gas and logging exploration increasingly encroaches on their forest territory
… paper on the 'Mashco-Piro' presented in Brazil in 2006. 'Only maturing secondary …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
… for China to take the lead. Or India. Or Brazil. America even. Why should China and … is so palpably resistant to change? Brazil is entering a period of prosperity that …