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By Andrew Whalen
Lima, Peru (AP)
Five Amazon tribes are closer to extinction than any of the scores of other indigenous groups living in voluntary isolation worldwide, an Indian rights group said during late May.
While loggers, ranchers and oil companies have encroached on their lands in the jungles of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, those countries’ governments have failed to protect them, allowing outsiders to destroy their forests and expose them to unfamiliar diseases, London-based Survival International said in a report.
Lima, Peru (AP)
Five Amazon tribes are closer to extinction than any of the scores of other indigenous groups living in voluntary isolation worldwide, an Indian rights group said during late May.
While loggers, ranchers and oil companies have encroached on their lands in the jungles of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, those countries’ governments have failed to protect them, allowing outsiders to destroy their forests and expose them to unfamiliar diseases, London-based Survival International said in a report.
