Indians denounce illegal logging
A group of Ayoreo Indians has angrily condemned the landowners who are logging their territory illegally. Senior government officials have travelled to the Ayoreo's villages to investigate.
A group of Ayoreo Indians has angrily condemned the landowners who are logging their territory illegally. Senior government officials have travelled to the Ayoreo's villages to investigate.
The controversial American fundamentalist missionary organisation New Tribes Mission is making weekly visits to a group of isolated Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians first contacted in 2004.
At a recent meeting in Paris, UNESCO approved a joint request by the Paraguayan government and supporters of the Ayoreo Indians to include a large area of Ayoreo forest in the new Chaco Biosphere Reserve.
Paraguay's Congress yesterday rejected a bill to protect the heartland of the last isolated Indians south of the Amazon basin.
The fate of the last uncontacted South American tribe outside Amazonia will be decided this week. Paraguay's Congress will debate a bill which would protect the heart of their territory.
Members of the Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay have signed a petition showing solidarity with the Bushmen of Botswana.
Moves to protect the heartland of South America's last uncontacted tribe south of the Amazon basin are now being debated in Paraguay's Congress. The area at stake is home to an unknown number of uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians.
A bill now being debated in Paraguay's Senate could provide a vital safe haven for uncontacted Indians - the last outside the Amazon.