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Peru considers long-delayed Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes
The Yavarí Mirim reserve proposal aims to protect about 7,000 uncontacted Indigenous people from threats like logging and mining, encompassing an area larger than Connecticut, advocates say.
- Peruvian officials are set to vote this Thursday on creating the Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve in the Amazon to protect isolated Indigenous groups.
- The reserve proposal follows a decades-long effort hampered by political resistance and recent attempts to weaken protections via a bill introduced last month.
- The proposed reserve covers about 1.17 million hectares, home to five uncontacted tribes vulnerable to illegal logging, mining, disease, and outside incursions.
- A 2024 government report identified over 100 newly discovered signs of Indigenous habitation and charted at least 25 separate communities, estimating that around 640 individuals continue to live in isolation within the area.
- Approval would require a ministerial decree and obligate the government to patrol and protect the area, signaling a critical step to safeguard Peru’s isolated Indigenous peoples amid mounting threats.
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Peru considers long-delayed Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes
Peru is considering whether to create the long-delayed Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from outside encroachment.
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Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People - Inside Climate News
An estimated 7,000 Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation in the country’s Amazon forests, but they face increased threats from logging, mining, oil and gas drilling and drug trafficking.By Nicholas KusnetzThis week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.
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