Peru’s Ministry of Culture…has issued a report that blocks, at least temporarily, the expansion of the country’s biggest gas project in the Amazon rainforest in a Reserve set aside for the protection of isolated indigenous peoples…[because] the company leading the expansion of the Camisea gas project, Pluspetrol, wants to conduct 3D seismic tests in a region which it ‘assumes’…is inhabited by indigenous Machiguenga people who…are at ‘high risk’ from introduced diseases to which they have little or no immunity. As a result…[the Ministry] requests the modification of the area scheduled for 3D seismic testing …However, the block is only temporary as…[this] report, dated 27 November 2013, follows a much more detailed…evaluation, dated 11 July 2013, which ‘disappeared’ within hours of being made public and was later officially downgraded...