In recent weeks, indigenous protesters have blockaded the Napo river in order to prevent Perenco boats from passing. "The company plans to send hundreds of workers into the region. Perenco, an Anglo-French oil company working in a proposed Indian reserve in northern Peru, is endangering several uncontacted tribes, says the report. It is believed that the women have stopped giving birth," says the report. "Loggers operating out of Colniza have forced them to be constantly on the run, unable to cultivate crops and relying solely on hunting, gathering and fishing. Little is known about the group of 50 Indians who live along the River Pardo in the western Brazilian Amazon, although there is plenty of evidence for their existence, including communal houses, arrows, baskets, hammocks, and footprints along river banks. The loggers regularly block roads to prevent government teams from entering the area to investigate," says David Hill, a Survival researcher and co-author of the report. The ranchers want land to graze cattle for beef. "Logging roads have been bulldozed through a part of their territory, where the uncontacted groups are living.
Sixty members of the Awa tribe are said to be fleeing from gangs of loggers and ranchers on their land near Maranhao, Brazil.
The semi-nomadic groups, who live deep in the forests of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, are vulnerable to common western diseases such as flu and measles but also risk being killed by armed gangs, according to a report by Survival International, which identifies the five groups as the most threatened on Earth. Five "uncontacted" tribes are at imminent risk of extinction as oil companies, colonists and loggers invade their territiories.
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