Photos in an internal report by a Peruvian government agency reveal illegal clearings in a reserve in the Amazon purportedly protecting indigenous peoples living in ‘voluntary isolation’ and ‘initial contact.’ The report is based on helicopter over-flights of the Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve (KNNR) made by the...INDEPA...Almost a quarter of the KNNR is superimposed by a gas concession, Lot 88, where a consortium led by Pluspetrol has exploited the Camisea gas fields since 2004. According to the report, the clearings, numbering seven in total, are all at the same locations where Pluspetrol is now hoping to drill up to 21 new wells as part of a massive expansion of its operations...On 12 July 1978 Peru ratified the American Convention on Human Rights, meaning that all rulings by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights...set binding precedents that apply in Peru. Among the Court’s many rulings relevant to the Camisea project is the 2012 judgment about the Kichwa people living in a community called Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon which reinforces the right of indigenous peoples to prior consultation before concessions are established on their lands...Yet the indigenous peoples in ‘voluntary isolation’ in the KNNR have neither given their consent to, nor been consulted about, Pluspetrol’s expansion plans...