Peru indigenous leaders push quick Amazon protection vote, defying oil industry

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Peru's indigenous leaders have been lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to declare swathes of virgin Amazon rainforest off limits to outsiders, but they fear opposition by the oil industry may scupper a rare opportunity to secure a vote this week.

LIMA - Peru’s indigenous leaders have been lobbying lawmakers to pass a bill to declare swathes of virgin Amazon rainforest off limits to outsiders, but they fear opposition by the oil industry may scupper a rare opportunity to secure a vote this week.

“This reform will guarantee the lives and human rights of the Uncontacted Peoples,” Perez said, referring to an estimated 7,000 people in some 20 groups in the Peruvian Amazon who have very little or no interaction with the outside world. Indigenous leaders met with Vizcarra on Friday in anticipation that Congress could vote as early as this Thursday.

 

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Gross

GO INDIGENOUS LEADERS! BOO OIL INDUSTRY!

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Good luck. Wish them the best

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