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The right not to develop?
March 16, 2010 2 min. read

In a move that will likely need to be repeated in coming years, the Supreme Court of India ordered a controversial resort in the Andaman Islands to close down pending further deliberations of the Court on the possible effect the resort will have on the endangered Jarawa tribe. The decision came just weeks after the […]

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Sixteenth Century Perils in Twenty-First Century Peru
August 14, 2009 4 min. read

New aerial photographs show at least four illegal logging camps inside the Murunahua Reserve in Peru, Survival International reported yesterday.  The Reserve is located deep in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru and was established to protect the uncontacted Murunahua Indians.  The illegal logging camps present a huge threat to the Murunahua Indians, who like their neighboring ancestors, […]

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