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Mahogany market in US threatening the lives of uncontacted natives in the Amazon

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2010-07-21

Consumers in the US purchasing mahogany furniture may be unwittingly supporting illegal logging in a Peruvian reserve for uncontacted indigenous tribes, imperiling the indigenous peoples' lives. A new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC) provides evidence that loggers are illegally felling mahogany trees in the Murunahua Reserve where it is estimated some 200 uncontacted natives live.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0720-hance_uncontacted_peru.html