Politicians in Peru, allied to powerful oil, gas and mining corporations, are proposing two new bills that would, if passed, sound a death knell for the country’s uncontacted Indigenous peoples.
The first bill would open up ALL Peru’s protected areas to mining and oil and gas extraction. Many of these are the territories of uncontacted Indigenous peoples, who would be at risk of total annihilation following the destruction of their forest home.
The second bill would open up for gas projects a vast area in Peru’s Amazon that is home to a large number of uncontacted peoples.
Peru’s Indigenous organizations have branded these bills “an extermination campaign.” They’ve made a public appeal for support to prevent them being passed. Please stand with Peru's Indigenous peoples now.
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Víctor Raúl Cutipa Ccama, President of the Commission
Diana Carolina Gonzales Delgado, Vicepresident of the Commission
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