Peru: Traditional Indigenous Way Of Life Threatened By Proposed Road In Purús

Peru: Traditional Indigenous Way Of Life Threatened By Proposed Road In Purús   Local indigenous communities and their federation, FECONAPU, are fighting construction of a proposed road through the Purús region that would threaten their traditional way of life.   The proposed road would connect the Purús, the very headwaters of the Amazon and one of the world’s most remote, most intact and most culturally important natural areas, with the newly paved Interoceanic Highway in Madre de...

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