…In South America a race is taking place in the Amazon, as companies are pushing further into this vast rainforest in search for oil and gas. Some of its remote areas are home to indigenous peoples in isolation and in ‘initial contact’ with the outside world…on the verge of extinction…The urgency of protecting such groups’ territories from business operations was highlighted by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s recent call for suspension of extractive activities that endanger the survival of indigenous peoples in the Kugakapori-Nahua-Nanti reserve in Peru.. The Camisea consortium [part of Petroperú] holds a block overlapping with the reserve and plans to extend its operations significantly…[It refers to Pluspetrol, Hunt Oil, Repsol, SK Innovation and Sonatrach]