Uncontacted tribes: Peru takes action Over six million people have watched incredible footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe released last month. Nearly 100,000 signed a Survival petition asking the Peruvian government to act. Under pressure, Peru has sent Survival its action plan to protect uncontacted tribes from loggers.
If the government delivers on its promises, these most vulnerable peoples will survive. Wikileaks reveals the scale of illegal logging in Peru Meanwhile, a US embassy cable released by Wikileaks shows that most of the mahogany leaving Peru has been logged illegally. Survival‘s Director, Stephen Corry, said, ‘Consumers in the US and Europe simply can’t rely on documents that purport to show Peruvian mahogany is sustainably sourced, as these are clearly not worth the paper they’re written on.’
To all humanity, from the world’s tribes What links rainforest medicines, a root vegetable that feeds a billion people and the natural latex used to make tyres for the space shuttle? They are all discoveries by tribal peoples — gifts which have shaped the world. In the next edition… Survival will release one of the first interviews ever filmed with Brazil’s remote Zo’é tribe.
Missionaries made contact in the 1980s, and many Zo’é died of disease soon after. But their land is now protected, and the tribe’s numbers are growing again.