A year and a half following the deaths of at least thirty three indigenous and non-indigenous civilians and police near the town of Bagua, Peru, anthropologist Frederica Barclay suggest that the Peruvian government has failed to implement any significant changes toward greater consultation with indigenous peoples whose territories are being affected by sprawling logging, oil, hydroelectric and mining concessions in the Peruvian Amazon.
In the case of the Awajún and Wampi indigenous peoples in the northern Amazon living close to the border with Ecuador, who provided a powerful presence at Bagua, Barclay notes that the government has funded the creation of a parallel indigenous organizations to create divisions among communities in the area and to support mining. See: Indigenous groups reject "consultation" by Government and Minera Afrodita in northern Peru
Within this context, the Canadian company New Dimension Resources announced that it has now obtained all of the titles to ten mineral concessions along the Cordillera del Condor. It fails to make any mention of the longstanding, vociferous rejection against mining from indigenous peoples living in these Amazonian headwaters, as indicated in the bulletin from AIDESEP. For a related conflict in the area see: Dorato Resources Suspended by Peruvian Authorities
Other large scale mining projects along the border are Dorato Resources and Minera Afrodita on the Peruvian side of the border and Ecuacorriente and Kinross Gold in Ecuador.
Source: SERVINDI
See original article published at Mines and Communities
