Amazon Indians demand: 'Respect our right to remain uncontacted'
An open letter has slammed calls by US anthropologists to forcibly contact tribes.
An open letter has slammed calls by US anthropologists to forcibly contact tribes.
Nanti's Indians' homeland has been taken over by Peru's largest gas project.
The area is the ancestral land of uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians.
Government's response falls short of measures that would
A highly vulnerable uncontacted tribe in the Peruvian Amazon has been contacted by a missionary arriving on a tourist boat.
Dozens of encounters between uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians, tourists and settlers have been recorded in recent years.
President Humala is attending a climate conference in Berlin this week
Peru government has approved plans to expand the controversial gas project further into uncontacted tribes' reserve.