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Peru Endangers Forest

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Peru's Congress has revoked controversial laws that would have opened up Amazon tribal land to development.

 

Indigenous leaders complained they had never been consulted on the

laws intended to benefit the free trade agreement Peru has signed with

the United States

 

Economists estimate $US3.5 billion worth of timber, mineral and oil

products are locked in 92,000 square km Amazon basin.

 

Some 12,000 Peruvians from 65 tribes occupied oil and electricity

plants in the Amazon basis before agreeing to a truce subject to the

laws being repealed.

 

"This signals a new dawn for Amazon peoples," said Alberto Pizango,

leader of the Inter-Ethnic Association of the Peruvian Forest.

 

However, an angry President Alan Garcia warned it was a serious,

historic mistake to revoke the development laws.

 

The Garcia administration contends that the revoked development laws

were aimed at improving the livelihood of Indigenous communities by

developing their farming, livestock and mining activities so they can

better integrate with the country's economy.

 

posted to ClimateConcern

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