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Sometimes a glimmer of light...and then it fades...<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Light travels faster than sound.
That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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<td> UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE
‘COVERUP’</td>
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<td>Thu, 06 May 2010 05:02:21 -0400</td>
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<td>Survival International <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mr@survivalinternational.org"><mr@survivalinternational.org></a></td>
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<td>Rolland <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mikinakn@shaw.ca"><mikinakn@shaw.ca></a></td>
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UNPRECEDENTED FINE FOR RANCHERS IN UNCONTACTED TRIBE ‘COVERUP’<br>
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<td style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Members
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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 <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Indians</a> outside the Amazon basin.<br>
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‘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. <br>
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Yaguarete failed to acknowledge that the rich forest it is bulldozing
in order to graze cattle is the ancestral territory of uncontacted <a
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">Ayoreo-Totobiegosode
Indians</a>, some of whom have recently been seen nearby.<br>
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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.<br>
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SEAM made it clear that some Totobiegosode, who have already been
contacted, have confirmed the existence of uncontacted relatives in <a
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area where Yaguarete has been working</a>.<br>
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Yaguarete recently accused Paraguay’s Environment Minister, Oscar
Rivas, of working for <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">Survival
International</a> 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.<br>
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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.’<br>
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style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;">http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5918</a><br>
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