A new report warns that oil, gas, and illegal mining threaten isolated Indigenous peoples in the Peru-Brazil Yavarí-Tapiche corridor. Industrial concessions overlap with 10% of the 16 million-hectare area, risking forced contact, habitat loss, and disease.
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Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and home to the world’s…