亞馬遜河流域的秘魯原住民首領在秘魯與美國的環保團體以及人權團體的支持下，要求秘魯政府停止其開放新石油開採權的計畫。石油開發將可能摧毀秘魯的原生熱帶雨林以及原住民社群。
秘魯國營石油公司秘魯石化（Perupetro）配合NAPE Expo展覽會的活動，於2日在休士頓石油公會開始2007年的競標作業。NAPE Expo是石油探勘業每半年舉辦的貿易展，秘魯石化期望開採權能吸引美國能源公司加入。
在競標開始時，3名原住民首領短暫的控制了發言台，並且警告擠滿會場的潛在投資者，原住民社群將反對並阻止在他們土地上新的探勘行為。
秘魯石化計畫標售11個亞馬遜河區塊，涵蓋大約2200萬英畝生物多樣性豐富及完整的原生熱帶雨林區，比整個緬因州還要大。
原住民首領在中斷競標活動的同時，投資者收到一份地圖，地圖中顯示這11個區域中有10個都有嚴重衝突的問題。
當中的9個區域與已劃分命名的原住民土地相重疊，也是原住民首領們極為關切並且口頭警告這些潛在投資者的主因。有4個區域與官方設置的保留區重疊，該保留區是為保護世界上少數僅存仍自願孤立生存的原住民。另外3個則是與計畫保留給遺世獨立族群的區域重疊。
在2日於利馬召開的記者會中，秘魯跨族群叢林發展協會（AIDESEP）主席皮桑戈（Alberto Pizango）對秘魯政府想釋出與外界分隔的族群的領域上7個石油開採權的企圖，公開譴責。「我們要求立即排除這7個區域，」皮桑戈說，「這是對於這些遺世獨立族群生命與健康的侵害」。
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon, along with Peruvian and U.S. environmental and human rights groups, are calling on the Peruvian government to suspend its tendering of new oil concessions. The oil development threatens to devastate Peru's pristine tropical rainforest and native communities.
Perupetro, Peru's state owned oil company, launched its 2007 bidding round on Friday at Houston's Petroleum Club, timed to coincide with the NAPE Expo, the oil prospecting industry's semi-annual trade show. Perupetro is hoping to attract U.S. energy companies to the drilling concessions.
At the launch event, three indigenous leaders briefly took control of the stage to warn the potential investors who packed the room that indigenous communities will oppose and resist new explorations on their territory.
In total, Perupetro plans to tender 11 Amazonian blocks, covering approximately 22 million acres of highly biodiverse, intact primary tropical rainforest - an area larger than the state of Maine.
During the intervention by the indigenous leaders, maps were distributed to the investors showing that that 10 of the 11 blocks have significant conflict problems.
Nine of the blocks overlap titled indigenous lands and were the focus of the verbal warning the indigenous leaders delivered to the potential investors. Four of the blocks overlap official reserves set up to protect some of the world's last native peoples still living in voluntary isolation. Three more blocks overlap proposed reserves for isolated peoples.
At a press conference Friday in Lima, AIDESEP President Alberto Pizango denounced the Peruvian government's attempt to lease seven oil concessions on uncontacted peoples' territory. “We demand the immediate exclusion of those seven blocks,” said Pizango. “This is an attack on the life and health of these isolated peoples.”
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