By Ecological Internet’s Rainforest Portal TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus – Peru’s largest national park – comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two ‘uncontacted’ indigenous tribes [search]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity [...]

Indigenous people present at the court said they were devastated by the ruling, while activists said it could encourage the government to requisition more land on Malaysia’s part of Borneo and create “internal refugees”. “It is an unfair decision. I have not been fully compensated,” said Ngajang Midin, 50, of the Ukit tribe, as tears [...]