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From depths of #Brazil #Amazon to #Indonesia #rainforests some of world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, #miners #drug #traffickers crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection. Survival International attempts 1 of broadest tallies identifying @least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries sharing Amazon rainforest. Report estimates nearly 65% face threats from #logging 40% from #mining around 20% from #agribusiness apnews.com/article/uncontacted

This June 2024 photo provided by Survival International shows members of the Mashco Piro along Las Piedras River in the Amazon near the community of Monte Salvado, in Madre de Dios province, Peru. (Survival International via AP, File)
AP News · What to know about uncontacted Indigenous peoples and efforts to protect themBy Steven Grattan
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First, governments must formally recognize & enforce #IndigenousTerritories, making them off-limits to extractive industries.

Mapping is crucial, Bhattacharjee said, because identifying the approximate territories of #UncontactedIndigenous peoples allows governments to protect those areas from #logging or #mining. But, she added, it must be done with extreme caution & from a distance to avoid contact that could endanger the groups’ #health or #autonomy.

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“These are what I would call silent #genocides — there are no TV crews, no #journalists. But they are happening, & they’re happening now,” said Fiona Watson, Survival’s research & advocacy director, who has worked on #IndigenousRights for >3 decades.

The issue often receives little priority from governments, which critics say see uncontacted #IndigenousPeoples as politically marginal because they don’t vote & their territories are often coveted for #logging, #mining & #oil extraction.

#UncontactedIndigenous peoples & efforts to protect them

From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by #roads, miners & drug traffickers—a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.

#law #InternationalLaw #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousRights #LandConservation #LandRights #SaveRoadless #logging #mining #agribusiness #Climate #ClimateCrisis
apnews.com/article/uncontacted

This June 2024 photo provided by Survival International shows members of the Mashco Piro along Las Piedras River in the Amazon near the community of Monte Salvado, in Madre de Dios province, Peru. (Survival International via AP, File)
AP News · What to know about uncontacted Indigenous peoples and efforts to protect themBy Steven Grattan

Fantastic ARTE documentary about the dark side and dangerous negative impacts of global tree planting & carbon credit programs, in reality often PR frauds/distractions, relying on lack of regulation & scientific errors, amounting to nothing more than clear cutting existing mature forests, replacing them with fast growing monocultures (mostly Eucalyptus or Douglas firs) for future logging activity, handing out subsidies to the forestry industry and displacing indigenous people/ecosystems... The film also covers various alternative approaches and activism projects for more sustainability and resilience...

Available in French & German (I wish ARTE would also offer English versions for a much larger audience...)

French: Planter à tout prix. Des arbres pour sauver la planète ?
arte.tv/fr/videos/111778-000-A

German: Retten Bäume den Planeten?
arte.tv/de/videos/111778-000-A

Outcry as #Trump plots more roads and #logging in #US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/trump-logging-forests

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment
The Guardian · Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’By Oliver Milman