"After two decades of political debate, a government-led commission voted on Friday against creating the Yavari Mirim Indigenous reserve, a 1.2m-hectare (2.9m-acre) expanse of pristine rainforest along the border with Brazil. The tally was decisive: eight against, five in favour, with three members absent from the crucial vote. The rejection comes despite evidence of human presence deep in the forest."
"Campaigners have accused the Peruvian government of violating international human rights law and putting lives at risk in the Amazon after it rejected a vast new territory to protect some of the world's most isolated Indigenous communities. The latest study, completed in 2024, documented 113 pieces of new evidence, including longhouses, trails, campfires, ceramic pots, bows and arrows, and cultivated areas. Aerial surveys identified 25 sites showing signs of habitation."
A government-led commission voted decisively against creating the 1.2m-hectare Yavari Mirim Indigenous reserve, with eight votes against, five in favour and three members absent. A 2024 study documented 113 new pieces of evidence of human presence, including longhouses, trails, campfires, ceramic pots, bows and arrows, cultivated areas, and aerial surveys identified 25 habitation sites. Campaigners say the decision risks lives and violates international human rights law, and could prompt concessions for logging, oil, gas and other extraction. Some regional politicians deny the existence of uncontacted peoples despite reported footprints, shouts and recent photos.
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