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Thursday, July 29, 2004, 13:03
Activists: Pipeline Project in Peru threatens indigenous populations
OneWorld.net
Environmental and human-rights groups in the United States and Peru have launched a last-ditch effort to delay final approval as early as this week by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) of a controversial pipeline project in Peru which they say threatens the destruction of some of the world's most unique rainforests and the survival of some of Latin America's last isolated indigenous populations.
When Shell undertook exploratory operations in the region in the 1980s, almost one-half of Nahua people living there died from influenza and whooping cough for which they lacked any immunities. Anthropologists and green groups have reported over the past year that contractors working for the Camisea project have actively sought out uncontacted groups putting them at risk of infection, and some have reported sharply rising death rates among some indigenous groups over the past two years.
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