81. Untitled Document As part of the amazon River basin, the Pucallpa region, and specifically the Close to 80% of the 9 million indigenous people in Peru (40% of the total http://www.villageearth.org/pages/Projects/Peru/

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82. Globalisation Of Genomics Knowledge In Ecuador - Centre For Economic And Social The Ecuadorian amazon is home to an estimated 108000 indigenous people Body of indigenous Organisations of the amazon basin (COICA), the indigenous http://www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/study/ecuador.htm

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83. CorpWatch : Burlington Resources Criticized By Shareholders For Amazon Project controversy around Burlingtons oil operations in the amazon basin. The legally recognized indigenous federations representing people who have lived http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=9208

84. Saving Rain Forests And Its People:11/18/98 indigenous people in South America s amazon jungle have a wealth of knowledge Oil development in the upper amazon basin in Ecuador provides one example http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1998/november18/amazon1118.html

Issue of November 18, 1998 BY FRANCES COLE Indigenous people in South America's Amazon jungle have a wealth of knowledge about the plants and animals and soils of their homelands. That knowledge ­ itself a threatened resource ­ can be used in the struggle to conserve the rain forest, anthropologists say. That was the central premise of a Nov. 12 conference called "Culture Ecology and Conservation in Amazonia," hosted by Stanford's 10-week-old Department of Anthropological Sciences. The afternoon meeting, which brought leading anthropologists to Annenberg Auditorium to talk about the current status and future prospects for the survival of the Amazon, was divided into three panel discussions. The topics were "Indigenous Peoples and Conservation: The Problems Today"; "Conservation and Management of Biodiversity by Indigenous Peoples"; and "Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Amazonia." "The same forces that threaten biodiversity also threaten cultural diversity in the Amazon basin," said Bill Durham, chair of the new department and the conference's organizer. The destructive forces to be reckoned with include oil and gas exploration and production, timber harvesting, gold mining and cattle ranching, Durham said.

85. Isolated Indigenous Groups Face Extinction - Global Policy Forum the amazon basin was home to some 2000 indigenous groups, about 7 million “With each disappearance of a community, a whole people dies and that is http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sovereign/sover/emerg/2003/0730indigen.htm

about GPF What's New Newsletter Sitemap ... *Opinion Forum Isolated Indigenous Groups Face Extinction By Diego Cevallos Tierramerica July 29, 2003 Native South Americans shunning contact with “civilization” are facing cultural genocide, warns a top United Nations official. Government rhetoric and laws guarantee the existence of isolated indigenous groups still living in the Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon jungle and in Paraguay’s Chaco region, but their path to extinction appears already laid out. The Korubos of Brazil, the Tagaeri of Ecuador, the Ayoreo of Paraguay and the Mashco-piros, Ashaninkas and Yaminahuas of Peru, which together amount to a total of only 5,000 individuals, are feeling the pressure of “civilization” advancing on their territories. These isolated native communities are facing “true cultural genocide”, Roberto Stavenhagen, UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous People, told Tierramerica. “I’m afraid that under the current circumstances it will be difficult for them to survive more than a few more years, since what we call development denies them the right to continue living as they are,” he said. These groups have decided to live apart from modern society hoping to avoid the cultural and physical extinction that other native communities have suffered in their interaction with Western society. But their culture and existence are being threatened by companies and individuals wishing to exploit the rubber, wood, oil, gold and genetic resources that could be found in their territories. They also face threats from missionaries, anthropologists and tourism, and are being killed in large numbers, as happened last May in the Ecuadorian Amazon when a dozen Tagaeris, of the less than 300 still alive, were massacred by Huaoranis who now live a Western lifestyle. The murders were done in the interest of logging companies keen on exploiting virgin territories.

86. CWS Project Description - Church World Service Launches Initiative With Indigeno The initiative seeks to secure the rights of indigenous people to their lands, is the largest forested area in Latin America after the amazon basin, http://www.churchworldservice.org/Development/project_description/descriptions/1

@import "/css/complex.css"; @import "/css/complex_hnav.css"; Skip navigation Hotline Newsroom Resources ... Hunger Facts Church World Service Launches Initiative with Indigenous People in Chaco Region of South America Tito Recalde outside his home in Cerrito, Paraguay. Photo: Tom Hampson/CWS When God created humans he said to them, "When you walk the earth, remember that you are part of all you see. Take care of the earth as you would take care of yourself." - Elder of the Nivacle people, Paraguay NEW YORK – Church World Service announces the launch of a four-year program to assist over 250 indigenous communities in the Grand Chaco region of South America. A CWS-sponsored consultation, held Feb. 17 and 18 in Asunción, Paraguay, put the final touches on a coordination agreement between five highly regarded partner agencies who have long experience working with the indigenous peoples of the Chaco region in Bolivia, Argentina, and Paraguay. The initiative seeks to secure the rights of indigenous people to their lands, as well as provide needed technical assistance in areas of agricultural development, education, and the creation of small business enterprises. The Grand Chaco is the largest forested area in Latin America after the Amazon basin, and like the Amazon is threatened by aggressive forestry and agricultural practices, as well as mineral exploration. For the dozens of indigenous communities that have called the Chaco home for centuries, these incursions threaten their way of life, their habitat, and their very survival.

87. Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Advocacy Organizations Coordinating Body for the indigenous peoples Organization of the amazon BasinJiro Larco Herrera 1057 Magdalene de Mar Lima 17, Peru http://www.aaanet.org/committees/cfhr/orgindig.htm

Academic Relations Ethics Government Relations Public Policy ... Minority Issues E-mail address: Password: Forgot password? Need help? Press Room Members in the News ... Section Assembly Max Rows: Go to AAA Home Note: There is a wide variety of organizations involved with human rights and indigenous peoples. Some of these organizations, along with their addresses, are listed below. African Rights 11 Marshallsea Road London SE1 1EP United Kingdom Alliance for Taiwan Aborigines 5F, 7 Cheng Kuong Road, Sec. 2 Yung-Ho, Taipei, Taiwan Amanaka'a Amazon Network 339 Lafayette St, Se. 8 New York, NY 10012 Amnesty International 322 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10001 Anthropology Resource Center P.O. Box 15266 Washington, DC 20003-0266 Anti-Slavery International 180 Brixton Road London SW9 6AT United Kingdom Arctic to Amazonia Alliance P.O. Box 73

88. BBC NEWS | Americas | Ecuador Tribes Vow To Fight Oil Threat Now the indigenous people of the region are starting to organise themselves But whatever the outcome of the case, those in the southern amazon basin are http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4308537.stm

News Sport Weather World Service ... Newswatch LANGUAGES Espanol Brazil Caribbean More Last Updated: Thursday, 3 March, 2005, 11:32 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Ecuador tribes vow to fight oil threat By Michael Voss BBC News, Amazon basin, Ecuador The tribes say they are prepared to fight to protect their land (pic: Earthrights International) One of South America's poorest countries, Ecuador, is believed to be sitting on huge untapped reserves of oil and gas. Much of it, though, lies beneath remote areas of the Amazon rainforest. Now the indigenous people of the region are starting to organise themselves politically in a bid to keep the oilmen out of their ancestral homes. In global oil terms, Ecuador is a relatively small player. But revenues from its existing Amazon oil reserves are critical in keeping the country's economy afloat. Now, with the country sitting on huge potential new reserves, there is enormous pressure to expand production. Ancestral land The difficulty is that much of it lies beneath pristine virgin rainforests which are legally designated indigenous tribal territories.

89. Americas Program | Articles | Indigenous Communities In Latin America amazon Alliance for indigenous and Traditional peoples of the amazon Basinhttp//www.amazonalliance.org/. amazon Watch http//www.amazonwatch.org/ http://americas.irc-online.org/citizen-action/focus/0207indigenous_body.html

printer-friendly PDF version Citizen Action in the Americas Indigenous Communities in Latin America: Fighting for Control of Natural Resources in a Globalized Age Since the resistance to colonization, native peoples in the Americas have fought to protect their dwindling territories and their right to manage the natural resources found there. But in this globalized age, that battle has intensified and taken on distinctive characteristics, posing new and profound challenges for the region's indigenous communities. Many of the natural resources found on Indian lands have become more valuable in the context of the modern global economy. Several factors have spurred renewed interest in natural resources on Indian lands in Latin America, among them the mobility of capital, ecological limits to growth in developed countries, lax environmental restrictions in underdeveloped nations, lower transportation costs, advances in biotechnology, cheap third world labor, and national privatization policies. Limits to logging in developed countries have led timber transnationals overseas. Increased demand and higher prices for minerals have generated the reopening of mines and the proliferation of small-scale mining operations. Rivers are coveted for their hydroelectric potential, and bioprospecting has put a price tag on biodiversity. Originally considered lands unsuitable for productive activities, the resources on Indian lands are currently the resources of the future. Indian land rights and decisionmaking authority regarding natural resource use on territories to which they hold claim threaten the mobility of capital and access to resourceskey elements of the transnational-led globalization model. Accordingly, increased globalization has generally sharpened national conservative opposition to indigenous rights in the Americas and elsewhere in the name of "making the world safe for investment." The World Trade Organization (WTO), free trade agreements, and transnational corporations are openly hostile to any legislation that might create barriers to investment or the unlimited exploitation of natural resources on Indian lands. The result has been a growing number of conflicts between indigenous communities and governments and transnational corporations over control of natural resources.

90. Murder Of A Crusader The murder of a US missionary in the amazon basin of Brazil once again draws The indigenous people who resisted the occupation of their land were http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2206/stories/20050325000406000.htm

Volume 22 - Issue 06, Mar. 12 - 25, 2005 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Home Contents WORLD AFFAIRS Murder of a crusader NANDAGOPAL R. MENON The murder of a U.S. missionary in the Amazon basin of Brazil once again draws attention to the destruction of rainforests and the exploitation of indigenous people and small farmers in the region. CARLOS SILVA/AP Sister Dorothy Stang in the Amazon rainforest. SISTER Dorothy Stang believed that promotion of justice was an integral part of the service of the faith. And she, like several others before her, paid the ultimate price for that conviction. She knew that her enemies wanted her dead. But, despite receiving several death threats, she refused to abandon the small farmers of Brazil's Amazon basin. She had dedicated her life as a nun to their service. Sister Dorothy even turned down the local authorities' offer to appoint personal bodyguards. She said: "I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live in the forest without any protection. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment." When they finally came for her, on February 12, the gutsy resolve and commitment seemed to have taken even the murderers by surprise. Confronted with gun-toting contract killers, she pulled out a Bible and read it to them. They listened for a while, and fired. When her body was found - lying face down on mud in the Trans-Amazonian Highway near Anapu, in the State of Para - it had three bullet injuries, in the head and the throat.

91. Come Together To Defy The ¨most Damaging Project In The Amazon Basin¨ Petition 857, 821 pm PDT, Aug 2, Lynn B. Price, The amazon basin is very dear to my the Peruvian government to the thousands of indigenous people of that area. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/669613098

Home Sign a Petition Create a Petition Discuss ... Log In We, the Undersigned, endorse the following petition: Come together to defy the ¨most damaging project in the Amazon Basin¨ Target: Ray Hunt, CEO, Hunt Oil Sponsor: Ari Berk Signatures: Goal: Deadline: Tell Hunt Oil, main beneficiary of the "most damaging project in the Amazon Basin," to stop! The project involves irreversible ecological damage to the remote Camisea region possibly the most biologically diverse place on earth and killing-off the local people. See full petition below Email this to your friends! Step 1. Enter your name: Or log in Display in public list as "Anonymous" View Signatures: Number Date Name Why do you oppose drilling in biologically vital and inhabited rainforest? 7:04 am PDT, Sep 9 Shea Riemenschneider 4:26 pm PDT, Sep 7 Patt Haring 2:05 am PDT, Sep 7 Nicole Raleigh 8:32 pm PDT, Sep 6 Debbie Boone 12:36 pm PDT, Sep 6 Anonymous 9:05 am PDT, Sep 6 Rafael Ufret 7:15 pm PDT, Sep 4 Connie Paterson 3:47 pm PDT, Sep 4 Venetia Spencer 2:41 pm PDT, Sep 4 Susan Dunne 12:10 am PDT, Sep 4

92. Eco-Portal: Land/Forests/Protection/Indigenous Peoples humanitarian aid to geographically isolated indigenous peoples of the AmazonBasin (Added 7/8/2005 Alaskan people tell of climate change, BBC http://www.environmentalsustainability.info/Land/Forests/Protection/Indigenous_P

Eco-Portal - The Environmental Sustainability.Info Source Home Land Forests Protection : Indigenous Peoples the entire directory only this category More search options Links: Rainforest Foundation, The UK - supports indigenous people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their rights (Added: Mon Feb 05 2001 Hits: 809 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 8 ) Rate It Forest Peoples Program - supports forest peoples’ rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources (Added: Sun May 08 2005 Hits: 48 Rating: 0.00 Votes: ) Rate It Rare - Inspiring Conservation - protecting wildlands of globally significant biodiversity by empowering local people to benefit from their preservation (Added: Tue Mar 04 2003 Hits: 354 Rating: 0.00 Votes: ) Rate It Survival International - supports tribal peoples Worldwide through public campaigns that help them protect their lives, lands and human rights (Added: Sat Jan 20 2001 Hits: 91 Rating: 0.00 Votes: )

93. The Coordinator Of The Indigenous Organizations Of The Amazon Basin Welcome a historical and fundamental stage for the unification of indigenous Peopleof the amazon. From then on, our people have carried out through the COICA, http://www.coica.org/en/welcome.php

Nederlands Spanish Last News Magazine Our Amazon ... Intranet Day Home Welcome Organization Amazon Indigenous Agenda ... Design We thank with respect for the massive support coming from the different hemispheres of the world. In 1992, the General Congress of the COICA that was carried out in Manaos-Brazil, marked a historical and fundamental stage for the unification of Indigenous People of the Amazon. From then on, our people have carried out through the COICA, an effort without precedents before the challenges imposed by the colonization, the division and the spoil of all type. The spiritual and cultural reapropiation of our territories has been one of the means of common recognition and of taking of conscience politics. In each one of the 9 countries, the organizations members of COICA, we have doubled the efforts and overcome the numerous obstacles that were imposed us. With this end we have carried out important changes that are still necessary for what continues them to him promoting them and putting them into practice. The collective will has been reinforced and enriched of common experiences. The INDIVIDUAL DRIFTS OF ALL TYPE THAT have THREATENED THE UNION AND THE HARMONY, have been discarded and sanctioned by our institutional democracy. Whenever it has been necessary, we have improved our institutional operation, committing more and more in this common and necessary effort to respond to the new internal and external challenges.

94. Channel 4 Television - To The ENDS Of The EARTH THE STUDENTS STORY THE HUAORANI indigenous PEOPLE amazon RAINFOREST JUNGLE SURVIVAL GUIDE RESOURCES TRAVEL TIPS, THE amazon S indigenous PEOPLE http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/E/ends/tribe4.html

document.c4Category = ""; document.c4Module = ""; TV Listings Text Only Site A-Z FourDocs ... GAMES When the Amazon Basin was first discovered by European explorers and colonists in the fifteenth century, it was thought to have been home to approximately six million indigenous people. Today, barely 500 years later, the indigenous population stands at less than 250,000. Indigenous people have lived in the Amazonian forest for thousands of years, hunting, gathering, and living sustainably on the forest resources. Until relatively recently, many indigenous people did not know that a world existed outside the rainforest, for the majority of these people, their meeting with the outside world has not been a happy one. Eight indigenous nationalities inhabit the El Oriente region of eastern Ecuador in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Huaorani; Quichua, Secoya; Siona; Achuar; Shuar, Cofan and Zaparo. In the 1950s, when Western missionaries arrived, it is believed that 350,000 indigenous people occupied the territory, now that figure stands at approximately 60,000. Contact with the outside world brought diseases against which their bodies had no immunity, leading to many deaths. Attempts to acculturalise indigenous peoples to the ways of the West have meant that the social cohesion of communities have been eroded and broken down and ancient cultures lost. Then, the 1970s saw the arrival of the biggest and most enduring threat to the indigenous people of El Oriente. Oil exploration began. Since the 1970s, the indigenous people have witnessed a rapid and widespread erosion of their territories and their cultures. No previous contact with the outside world and no knowledge of Western business meant that many tribes lost or gave away land with very little recompense, while the Ecuadorian government sold land cheaply without consulting the indigenous people who lived there. The Ecuadorian oil boom failed to deliver its bright promise of wealth and development.

95. Third International Forum Of Indigenous Peoples On Climate Change, July 2001, Bo Coordinating Body for the indigenous peoples Organizations of the AmazonBasin (COICA) Parshu Ram Tamang, Nepal International Alliance of indigenous and http://www.treatycouncil.org/new_page_5212.htm

International Indian Treaty Council CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS “WORKING FOR THE RIGHTS AND RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES" The Bonn Declaration Third International Forum of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change July 14 15, 2001 Bonn, Germany Preamble We, the delegates of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and indigenous organisations in the Third International Forum of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change convened in Bonn on July 14th and 15th, 2001 for the second session of the sixth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP6B); reaffirm the Alburquerque Delaration, Quito Declaration, the Lyon Declaration of the First International Forum of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change, and the Hague Declaration of the Second Forum. We have historically and continue to play a fundamental role in the conservation and protection of the forests, biological diversity and the maintenance of ecosystems crucial for the prevention of severe climatic change. Long ago, our elders and our sciences foretold of the severe impacts of Western “development” models based on indiscriminate logging, oil exploitation, mining, carbon-emitting industries, persistent organic pollutants and the insatiable consumption patterns of the industrialized countries. Today, these unsustainable models threaten the very life of Mother Earth and the lives of all of us who are her children.

96. Pay For Destruction , Indigenous People Tell Corporations indigenous People Tell Corporations. By Haider Rizvi For Sebastiao Manchineriof the Yine people of the amazon rainforests, any approach to address http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/tncs/2003/0516indigenous.htm

about GPF What's New Newsletter Sitemap ... *Opinion Forum 'Pay for Destruction', Indigenous People Tell Corporations By Haider Rizvi Inter Press Service May 16, 2003 Leaders of the world's 350 million aboriginal people, gathered here to discuss ways to protect their culture and environment, are demanding that multinational corporations accept legal responsibility for policies that destroy indigenous lands and lifestyles. ''Industries on indigenous lands were meant to bring development, economic growth and reduced poverty,'' Victoria Tauli of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development told a meeting at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that started this week. ''Rather than bringing development, however, they have brought more poverty and misery to indigenous people.'' The vast majority of indigenous leaders, assembled here from as far as the lush green valleys of the high Himalayas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin, hold a similar view. In meeting after meeting of the two-week annual Forum, they tell countless stories about how oil, gas, lumber and mining projects by multinational business, and in some cases by national governments, continue to pose threats to the survival of their communities. ''For me, the environment is the single largest issue at this Forum, because it is everything,'' says Goodluck Diigbo, president of Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment (PIPE), who grew up in Ogoni, Nigeria, a region with a fragile ecosystem.

97. Pay For Destruction , Indigenous People Tell Corporations The vast majority of indigenous leaders, assembled here from as far as the lush For Sebastiao Manchineri of the Yine people of the amazon rainforests, http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0517-07.htm

Home Newswire About Us Donate ... Archives Headlines Printer Friendly Version E-Mail This Article Published on Saturday, May 17, 2003 by the Inter Press Service 'Pay for Destruction', Indigenous People Tell Corporations by Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS - Leaders of the world's 350 million aboriginal people, gathered here to discuss ways to protect their culture and environment, are demanding that multinational corporations accept legal responsibility for policies that destroy indigenous lands and lifestyles. ''Industries on indigenous lands were meant to bring development, economic growth and reduced poverty,'' Victoria Tauli of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development told a meeting at the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that started this week. ''Rather than bringing development, however, they have brought more poverty and misery to indigenous people.'' The vast majority of indigenous leaders, assembled here from as far as the lush green valleys of the high Himalayas to the rainforests of the Amazon basin, hold a similar view. In meeting after meeting of the two-week annual Forum, they tell countless stories about how oil, gas, lumber and mining projects by multinational business, and in some cases by national governments, continue to pose threats to the survival of their communities. ''For me, the environment is the single largest issue at this Forum, because it is everything,'' says Goodluck Diigbo, president of Partnership for Indigenous Peoples Environment (PIPE), who grew up in Ogoni, Nigeria, a region with a fragile ecosystem.

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