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Life Arts    H4'ed 5/28/09

Resource Boom in Peru's Amazon Threatens Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods and Their Rainforest Homes

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Tens of thousands of indigenous people are bravely protesting Peru government's give-away of their rainforest homes to oil, mining and logging industry without their approval. Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are protesting investment laws passed under a free-trade pact with the US and against concessions granted to foreign energy companies. The focus for Amazonian development must be upon benefiting
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