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Can Peru Control the Murderous Resource Rush on its Forest Frontiers?
2014-10-10 18:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Six weeks ago, a powerful voice for conservation and governance on Perus ragged, violent Amazon rain forest frontier was silenced, adding the name Edwin Chota to the lamentable list of campaigners and others killed around the world in places where a rush for valuable resources takes place in the absence of enforced rules. Chota, a leader of the Ashaninka Indian village of Saweto near the border with Brazil, was murdered with three companions on Sept. 1. As Scott Wallace so vividly reported for...
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