Dear Jack,

Peruvian law-makers are voting tomorrow on a law that could bring about total genocide of Peru’s uncontacted peoples. Please take action now.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, straddling the borders of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia, the Uncontacted Frontier is home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere else on Earth. 

Where their lands are protected and rights respected, they thrive – but now a terrible shadow hangs over them.

In Peru, a new “Genocide Bill”, devised and promoted by members of Congress with links to the powerful oil and gas industry, would devastate the country’s uncontacted tribes if it’s approved. A crucial committee vote on Friday will determine whether the bill progresses. It would:
 
• make it possible to cancel the official recognition of any uncontacted tribe’s existence
• scrap already-established Indigenous reserves for uncontacted and recently-contacted tribes
• open the territories of uncontacted tribes to oil and gas drilling, logging and mining
• block the creation of desperately-needed reserves for uncontacted tribes whose territories currently have no protection. 
 
Their territories would be wide open for logging, mining and oil drilling. And if past experience is anything to go by, this is likely to result in forced contact, violence, catastrophic disease and death. 

For years, we’ve been campaigning alongside Indigenous organizations in Peru for uncontacted tribes’ survival and rights. But now, all that’s been achieved hangs in the balance.

More than 10,000 of you have taken the action which we shared on Tuesday to support the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa – thank you so much.

Please step up again today to stop the disastrous “Genocide Bill” and help to ensure the survival of Peru’s uncontacted tribes.
 
Many thanks, 

Caroline Pearce
Director
Survival International