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Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
February 3, 2011
Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering [3]isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. Links: 1. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/news/6956 2. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos 3. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org
The move is the first success of Survival’s campaign to protect the uncontacted Indians of the Peru-Brazil border.
Global coverage of the [4]newly-released photos made public this week has pushed the Peruvian government into action. Links: 4. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos
In a statement released February 2nd, Peru’s Foreign Ministry announced that they will ‘establish contact with Brazil’s FUNAI institute [Department of Indian Affairs]… to preserve these peoples and avoid the incursion of illegal loggers and the depredation of the Amazon.’
Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ‘This is a really encouraging first step, let’s hope their declared intention turns into real action quickly.’
To read this story online: http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/news/6956
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