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    Peru has granted many extraction concessions to multinational companies, allowing them to extract resources from over half of indigenous territories in Peru according to the document. This has led to ongoing conflicts between indigenous groups and the state as three-quarters of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected natural areas, are zoned for extraction. As a result of pressures on their territories from resource extraction, the number of isolated indigenous groups emerging from the forests is growing.

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    Peru has granted many extraction concessions to multinational companies, allowing them to extract resources from over half of indigenous territories in Peru according to the document. This has led to ongoing conflicts between indigenous groups and the state as three-quarters of the Peruvian Amazon, including protected natural areas, are zoned for extraction. As a result of pressures on their territories from resource extraction, the number of isolated indigenous groups emerging from the forests is growing.

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    protesters.

    The controversy that resulted from the events at Bagua led to


    the retraction of the decrees less than a fortnight later.

    Peruvian Prime Minister Yehude Simon poses with a group of indigenous Amazonian leaders in Lima, Peru, June
    17 2009, after presenting a proposal to abolish the decrees. Paco Chuquiure/EPA

    Extraction and violence


    When Two Worlds Collide is a good introduction to the current state of
    indigenous rights in Peru. As the state legally owns the resources in
    Peru’s subsoil, it has granted extraction concessions to multinational
    companies that overlap more than half of the titled indigenous territories.
    At present, three-quarters of Peru’s Amazon, including a fifth of
    protected natural areas, is zoned for extraction. These are the results of a
    historical process of state-led dispossession in favour of foreign capital.

    The most recent consequence of the expansion of the legal and illegal
    extractive frontier is evident in the growing number of isolated peoples
    coming out of the forests due to the pressures on their territories.

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