Peru President Petitioned to Protect Uncontacted Tribe
posted on July 15th, 2014 in Amazon Jungle, Peru, Uncontacted Tribes
(Above: Photo of an uncontacted tribe near Peru-Brazil border in 2010; photo credit: Survival International)
Ahead of the visit of Peru’s President Ollanta Humala to Germany for a climate conference this week, Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has written to the President urging him to protect the lands of highly vulnerable uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging and drug trafficking.