Fwd: UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

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Subject: 	UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’
Date: 	Thu, 06 May 2010 05:02:21 -0400
From: 	Survival International <mr at survivalinternational.org>
To: 	Rolland <mikinakn at shaw.ca>


SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
* *6 May 2010
UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’

<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=caaeffbe9b&e=jgjNi6UOf2> 

Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode
group on the day they were contacted for the
first time, in 2004. © GAT/Survival

In an unprecedented move, Paraguayan authorities have fined the 
Brazilian cattle-ranching firm accused of illegally clearing forest 
which is home to the last group of uncontacted Indians 
<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=0fac17f283&e=jgjNi6UOf2> 
outside the Amazon basin.

‘The company, Yaguarete Pora SA, concealed key information about the 
existence of indigenous people in the area where it had a licence to 
work,’ said Paraguay’s Environment Ministry (SEAM), which imposed the fine.

Yaguarete failed to acknowledge that the rich forest it is bulldozing in 
order to graze cattle is the ancestral territory of uncontacted 
Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians 
<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=625e239eac&e=jgjNi6UOf2>, 
some of whom have recently been seen nearby.

SEAM’s response is to fine the company approximately 75 million 
guaranies ($16,000/ £10,500) and order it to write a new report, an 
‘Environmental Impact Assessment’, before considering whether to issue 
the company with a new licence.

SEAM made it clear that some Totobiegosode, who have already been 
contacted, have confirmed the existence of uncontacted relatives in the 
area where Yaguarete has been working 
<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=0ca7dc3d28&e=jgjNi6UOf2>.

Yaguarete recently accused Paraguay’s Environment Minister, Oscar Rivas, 
of working for Survival International 
<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=24745ec5f2&e=jgjNi6UOf2> 
after Survival’s exposé of the company’s destruction of thousands of 
hectares of the Totobiegosode’s forest, and the subsequent cancellation 
by SEAM of Yaguarete’s licence to work there.

Survival director, Stephen Corry, said today, ‘Whilst this fine sends 
out a welcome message, SEAM shouldn’t only fine Yaguarete: it should ban 
the company from working there. That forest is the ancestral territory 
of the Totobiegosode, and the Indians have been trying to gain land 
title to the area since 1993. Destroying that forest is both immoral and 
unconstitutional.’




To read this story online: 
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5918 
<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=5a3aeb4013&e=jgjNi6UOf2>
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