Jul
5
“Tarzan Agitator” Paul McAuley To Be Expelled by Peru
Filed Under Environment, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle
(Note: updates follow the article below)
Peru to expel British ‘Tarzan agitator’ Paul McAuley
Missionary told to leave after helping Amazon tribes resist incursion of oil, gas and mining firms into the rainforest
By Rory Carroll
The Guardian
July 2, 2010
Peru has ordered the expulsion of a British missionary who was dubbed a “Tarzan agitator” for helping Amazon tribes to resist the incursion of oil, gas and mining companies into the rainforest.
Jun
5
BP Oil Catastrophe Mirrors Texaco-Chevron Amazon Disaster
Filed Under Ecuador, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle
Disaster in the Amazon
By Bob Herbert
June 4, 2010
BP’s calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what has been described as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever…
Jun
3
Anglo-French Oil Company Perenco Plans Amazon Invasion
Filed Under Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes
A group of Waorani Indians in Ecuador with blow pipes
( Note: At a time when oil is gushing unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico, despoiling one of the richest ecosystems in the Americas, another oil company, Perenco, moves closer to building an oil pipeline through one of the remotest areas of the Amazon, in northern Peru, with the risk of oil workers making a potentially deadly contact with one or more uncontacted Amazonian tribes. Oil workers and illegal loggers have been invading indigenous territories–with often deadly consequences for native peoples–for the last one hundred years–Kim MacQuarrie)
May
8
Campaign to Protect Peru’s Last Uncontacted Tribes
Filed Under Indigenous Rights, Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes
Global Ad Campaign For Peru’s Uncontacted Tribes
Survival International
May 5, 2010
An ad supporting Peru’s last uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through the Indians’ territory…
Apr
6
Inca Skeletons Show Evidence of Spanish Brutality
Science News
April 2, 2010
If bones could scream, a bloodcurdling din would be reverberating through a 500-year-old cemetery in Peru. Human skeletons unearthed there have yielded the first direct evidence of Inca fatalities caused by Spanish conquerors…
Apr
1
Oldest City in the Americas in Danger of Being Destroyed by Locals
Filed Under Peruvian Pyramids, Recent Discoveries
Authorities to Inspect Archaeological Site of Caral to Verify Alleged Attack
Farmers Have Apparently Invaded one of the Pyramids in the Area of “Era de Pando” to build a Water Reservoir
March 23, 2010
El Comercio (Peru) (translated by Kim MacQuarrie)
Representatives of the Barranca Provincial Prosecutor’s office will carry out an investigation tomorrow at the archaeological site known as “Era of Pando,” a city consisting of 26 buildings belonging to the Caral culture, where farmers are apparently destroying this cultural heritage…
Feb
28
Climate Change Affecting Andes Mountain Villages in Peru
Filed Under Environment, Andes Mountains, Indigenous Rights
(Note: Since the early 20th century, glaciers around the world have been retreating, presumably as a result of humans burning greater and greater quantities of oil and coal, rampant deforestation, and the raising of livestock, which create greenhouse gases that absorb more sunlight and thus heat the atmosphere. Mt Kilamanjaro’s glacier in Tanzania, for example, which has been around for 12,000 years, is expected to completely disappear by 2020… Read more
Feb
11
Inca Author-Filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie to Give Talk in San Francisco on Recent Discoveries in Peru
Filed Under Incas, Recent Discoveries, Machu Picchu
You’re invited to an Evening with author and filmmaker Kim MacQuarrie & Writer/Editor Don George
Tuesday February 23rd, 7pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, San Francisco
Please be our guest as Don George and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie take the stage for a globe-roaming conversation about indigenous peoples around the world, balancing contradictory creative passions and the allure of Inca history and culture…
Feb
7
Prosperous Chile’s Troubling Indigenous Uprising
Dec. 12, 2009
Time Magazine
Compared to high-profile groups like the Quechua of Peru and the Yanomami of the Amazon rain forest, Chile’s Mapuche are a relatively obscure indigenous cohort in South America. But that has changed dramatically in recent months as a growing number of armed and masked Mapuche activists, pursuing a centuries-old claim to land they say was taken from them by the Spaniards and then the Chilean government, have engaged in a wave of arson attacks… Read more
Jan
7
New Fossil Find Points to South American Origin of Dinosaurs
Filed Under South American Dinosaurs, Recent Discoveries
Tawa hallae, a meat-eating Theropod dinosaur discovered in New Mexico
New Meat-Eating Dinosaur Alters Evolutionary Tree
December 10, 2009
Esciencenews.com
Paleontologists, aided by amateur volunteers, have unearthed a previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur from a fossil bone bed in northern New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, revealing a period of explosive diversification and hinting at how dinosaurs spread across the supercontinent Pangaea.
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