A preliminary report released today by U.S. NGOs Amazon Alliance, Amazon Watch and Environmental Defense confirms that the project has begun to cause food shortages and is leading to the spread of disease to indigenous communities in the Urubamba Valley. Health workers and the local Machiguenga indigenous organization warn that children and populations living in isolation are at risk of displacement and disease. NGOs are working to delay the vote of the United States Export-Import Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on financing for Camisea due at the end of July and point to results of recent field documentation showing extensive environmental damage and erosion that is choking pristine rivers and killing off fish stock in primary Amazon Rainforest. Read press release. Read report En espanol and Technical review report
Banks Poised to Vote as Findings of Field Investigation Expose Camisea’s Deadly Impacts
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