Weekly Report - 28 November 2013 (WR-13-47)

A fresh debate over the impact of a major project on indigenous communities has been triggered by a campaign by a number of Peruvian NGOs, supported by Survival International, to halt the expansion of the Camisea natural gas project. At stake, say the campaigners, is the risk posed by the project to “uncontacted” communities within the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti territorial reserve, which is “within Camisea’s area of influence.”