Lima, Sep 14 (EFE).- Environmental organizations and indigenous leaders have warned about the risk to biodiversity and native communities if oil exploration and extraction begins in the site known as MD-XP-001, located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The site, according to the organization Rights, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), is among 31 areas …
Yet a lawmaker has put forward a bill proposing to modify that law, a move anthropologists, Indigenous activists and leaders say would threaten legal safeguards for the PIACI and could lead to existing reserves for them being revoked. The proposal, made in November by congressman Jorge Morante of the right-wing Fuerza Popular (Popular Force) party, aims to modify the 2006 law to transfer responsibility for protecting isolated people and authority to create reserves from Peru's culture ministry to regional governments in the Amazon.