Sentences with phrase «remote headwaters»

PUCALLPA, Peru — Tribal people in a remote headwaters region in the Peruvian Amazon are reacting with defiance and despair to the recent brutal murders of four community leaders who were ambushed on a jungle trail near the border with Brazil.

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I have also heard the concerns of tribal people in a remote corner of western Ethiopia, where Indian and Saudi agribusinesses are taking their forests and capturing the headwaters of the Nile.

The Peruvian Ashaninka people live in the headwaters of the Tamaya River, where they had been forgotten, passing unnoticed, until a new threat under the guise of a demand for mahogany and other hardwoods began to extend its tentacles into their remote region.