UNESCO biosphere bulldozed by Brazilian ranchers 30 November 2009A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve inhabited by an uncontacted tribe is being bulldozed by Brazilian cattle ranchers at a devastating rate.
Highway endangers uncontacted Amazon Indians 27 November 2009Brazil’s Attorney General’s office has warned that uncontacted Indians in the Amazon are at risk of extinction due to a highway that runs through Rondônia state to the Bolivian border.
Brazilian Indian found dead following attack by gunmen 17 November 2009The body of a Guarani Indian has been found dead and badly bruised in a river close to his ancestral land in Brazil, following an armed attack on the community of Ypo’i on 30 October.
Anglo-French company nominated for spoof Friends of the Earth award 16 November 2009An Anglo-French company has been nominated for a spoof Friends of the Earth (FoE) award for its billion dollar project in a part of the Amazon inhabited by two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes.
Uncontacted tribe's forest bulldozed for beef 9 November 2009The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.
Isolated Amazon Indians die in ‘swine flu epidemic’ 4 November 2009Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected swine flu in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu.
