Paraguay: The native ayoreos runaway

Urge to protect the uncontacted natives

 ayoreos

The ayoreos are the last native people isolated from America that is out of the Amazon. They live in the Chaco, which is an enormous mountainous extension that extends from Paraguay to Bolivia and Argentina. Now their survival is threatened by deforestation of the area in which some of them are hidden. The blame for this situation is the Argentine livestock company Carlos Casado S.A.

 

Many members of the indigenous people ayoreo have been contacted, but some remain hidden in the forests of the Paraguayan West. The NGO Survival International is concerned by stating that "the rampant destruction of the forest in the region, much of which is illegal, leads them to live in a constant flight".

The NGO publicly denounced in early August that Paraguayan authorities had carried out a RAID on the property of Carlos Casado (Argentinian subsidiary of the Group San Jose) during which it discovered the company workers felled without permission the forest, as well as building dams and buildings and installing a wired on a large plot of forest in the Paraguayan Chaco from which the company owns.