Plans to protect isolated peoples in Peru now in peril
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6ZZG9)
Last week, a government commission in Peru voted to nix plans for a vast 3 million acre conservation reserve in the Amazon that would have protected uncontacted peoples there. Peru is among the countries with the most uncontacted tribes. Activists warn that similar protection plans could be on the chopping block in the future. The World's Host Marco Werman spoke to John Reid, who has co-authored a series about uncontacted and isolated tribes, co-published by The Guardian and Brazilian newspaper O Globo. He's an environmental economist and joins the show from Occidental, California.