In the remote Peruvian Amazon, Julio Cusurichi secured a national reserve to protect both sensitive rainforest ecosystems and the rights of indigenous peoples living in
voluntary isolation from the devastating effects of logging and mining.
According to ECLAC, «in Latin America -LRB-...) there are over 800 indigenous peoples, with close to 45 million people, who are characterized by their broad demographic, social, territorial and political diversity,
from peoples in
voluntary isolation until his presence in large urban settlements ``