Urgent action: Tell oil giant to leave uncontacted Indians alone

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Published on Thursday, 03 April 2014 21:00
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Urgent action

Tell oil giant to leave uncontacted Indians alone.

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has started exploring for oil in a remote part of the Amazon inhabited by isolated and uncontacted tribes.

The company has installed 15 barges loaded with machinery on the Tapauá River in western Brazil, and is exploring close to the lands of several very vulnerable tribes, such as the uncontacted Hi Merimã.

An influx of oil workers would be disastrous for the Hi Merimã, whose lack of immunity to common diseases could see them wiped out. Similar work in the Amazon has decimated tribes – half the Nahua tribe of Peru died in epidemics after their territory was opened up to oil companies.

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Dear Sra Foster,

I am alarmed to hear that you are carrying out exploration work in the Tapauá river basin in Amazonas state, threatening the lives of over a thousand Indians and jeopardizing the survival of the uncontacted Hi Merimã tribe.

I urge your company to stop this work immediately – it cannot be carried out without endangering the lives of uncontacted Indians who simply want to be left in peace.

Sincerely,

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