Colombia: Anti-Extinction Campaign Launched To Protect 35 Colombian Tribes

Colombia: Anti-Extinction Campaign Launched To Protect 35 Colombian Tribes   The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival International works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin.   The campaign responds to a barrage of threats that could wipe out the Indians. These include internal displacement, disappearances, massacres, anti-personnel mines and forced recruitment of...

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