Kim MacQuarrie’s Peru & South America Blog
A group of uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians, one of an estimated fifteen uncontacted Indian tribes in Peru
Peru Struggles To Keep Outsiders Away From Uncontacted Amazon Tribe
Mashco-Piro Indians have been spotted on the banks of a river popular with tourists after increasing logging in the area
Jan 31, 2012
guardian.co.uk
Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental tourists last year.
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Leonardo DiCaprio in a Bridgestone “Ecopia” Tire Ad, a tire that reduces your carbon footprint. He is also part of the Yasuni National Park “crowd-funding” initiative in Ecuador.
World pays Ecuador not to extract oil from rainforest
Governments and film stars join alliance that raises £75m to compensate Ecuador for lost revenue from 900m barrels
The Guardian
An alliance of European local authorities, national governments, US film stars, Japanese shops, soft drink companies and Russian foundations have stepped in to prevent oil companies exploiting 900m barrels of crude oil from one of the world’s most biologically rich tracts of land…
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Built by an unknown, pre-Inca culture high in Peru’s northern Andes, Marcahuamachuco was Peru’s most important political, economic, and military center, built sometime between 400 and 800 AD
Marcahuamachuco: the next Machu Picchu?
Agence France-Presse
Nov 27, 2011
Lima, Peru – Marcahuamachuco, an enigmatic 1,600-year-old archeological complex built from stone in the northern Peruvian Andes, is emerging bit by bit from oblivion and could become a beacon of tourism on the scale of Machu Picchu.
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