Peru contacts unknown Amazon tribe

[dipsydoodle]

Peruvian authorities have presented video footage of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe.

The footage was taken in the Kugapakori Nahua Nanti reserve in the country's southeast by members of the government-run National Institute of Development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvians (Indepa).

They saw the indigenous group while monitoring area checkpoints that have been installed to prevent entry of unauthorised persons, specifically illegal loggers.

The video - which was presentation at the National Museum and viewed by various government representatives - shows indigenous tribes interacting with Indepa workers.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20101113/twl-peru-contacts-unknown-amazon-tribe-41f21e0.html includes video.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Two Breakfasts has thrown open the door to the oil companies, loggers,

and three-card monty flim-flam artists to race in there, coughing, hacking, sneezing, take their land with Two Breakfast Garcia's blessing, and destroy their only known homes, leaving them strangers in a strange world where people view them as curiosities, and non-humans.

It's another of the ugliest acts of Garcia's evil history of a deadly, vain, pompous, murderous a-hole. He knows what wielding power is like, has disrespected his office, has thumbed his nose at the universe. The sky WILL fall on him, in its own way, in time. His acts against humans will be repaid.

Very sad day for the human race, with the reminder not everyone who claims to be human is up to human standards.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Logging threat looms over rich wilderness

Posted on Sunday, 11.14.10
AMAZON
Logging threat looms over rich wilderness
In Peru's Amazon, rare species and uncontacted tribes are at risk from quickly advancing logging.
BY DAVE SHERWOOD
Special to The Miami Herald

DULCE GLORIA, Peru -- Armed with arrows, Carmelino Vasquez scurried down the jungle path, swinging his machete with the cadence of a grandfather clock. After almost an hour on foot, he swept his bow skyward to signal the end of the hunt. ``Caoba,'' he declared, struggling to mouth the Spanish word for mahogany, a rare species of tropical hardwood coveted for its reddish brown color and elegant grain.

Here in the vast wilderness surrounding Peru's Alto Purús National Park, the locations of such trees, worth tens of thousands of dollars in the United States, have become closely guarded secrets among members of indigenous tribes.

Industrial logging is pushing ever deeper into the area, making mahogany the leading front in the ever-growing battle for control of the resource-rich Peruvian Amazon. But the threat goes far beyond any single species, said Chris Fagan, director of the Upper Amazon Conservancy.

Deforestation and the quickly advancing logging frontier have forced still-uncontacted people into violent conflict with settlers, while threatening the sanctity of one of the last, most bio-diverse places on Earth. And scientists fear for the region's vast forests, which act as an enormous sponge, soaking in the pollutants responsible for climate change.

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/14/1924929/logging-threat-looms-over-rich.html