Oil firms and loggers 'push indigenous people to brink of extinction'

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/28/indigenous-tribes-survival-international-peru-brazil-praguay

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Five "uncontacted" tribes are at imminent risk of extinction as oil companies, colonists and loggers invade their territiories. 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.

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Created by Niluccio on 29 May 2009

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