By Steven Grattan BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Peru\u2019s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border with Brazil. Advocates for the reserve say the decision leaves the remote forest vulnerable to logging, mining and other incursions, and deals a setback to a plan that has languished for more than two decades despite legal obligations to establish it. Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon, said the commission\u2019s rejection \u201cshows its anti-Indigenous face in the 21st century\u201d and signals it does not care about \u201cthe environment, the water, the culture and everything as a whole.\u201d He told The Associated Press that without Indigenous peoples, the Amazon… <\/p>\n
By Steven Grattan BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Peru\u2019s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border with Brazil. Advocates for the reserve say the decision leaves the remote forest vulnerable to logging, mining and other incursions, and deals a setback to a plan that has languished for more than two decades despite legal obligations to establish it. Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon, said the commission\u2019s rejection \u201cshows its anti-Indigenous face in the 21st century\u201d and signals it does not care about \u201cthe environment, the water, the culture and everything as a whole.\u201d He told The Associated Press that without Indigenous peoples, the Amazon... <\/p>\n