Pope Francis, who has toured Peru, has warned the Amazon region and the people living there for pressure on business.
Speaking to the indigenous population in Puerto Maldonado, a small town, the Amazon region has so far claimed that this kind of threat does not exist.
Pope Francis, aged 81 from Argentina, went to Peru for the second and last phase of a week-long tour of the Latin American region, which he called the Pope.
What did the Pope say?
The AFF news agency reported that dancing and souvenir were painted in their body, dipping their head with colorful feathers on the head, and dancing and singing in Puerto Maldonado.
Thousands of people from Brazil, Bolivia and Bolivia in the Amazon region came to meet the Pope, who spoke to Pope Francis saying "today the Amazon people who are threatened in their own lands are not in this situation."
"Amazon is a controversial land area in many affairs, and on the one hand, there is pressure on the big business interest on petroleum, gas, wood and gold, and on the other, there is a threat to the forgeries of the natural resources of the Amazon region, Pope said, "Yes, for some you are considered an obstacle or trouble, but you're all a cry of psyche," Pope said.
How big is the threat facing Amazon?
Yasika Bhatiaiah, a representative of the big tribal people who spoke to Pope, said, "We are heavily influenced by their entry into our territories without asking them and they will die in our land and we will die."
"We will be greatly hurt if our river is destroyed by poisoning and we will be very bad, foreigners consider us to be weak and plan to take our lands in different ways." If they succeed in attracting our lands, we are likely to disappear altogether.
The region surrounding Puerto Maldonado has been affected by unregulated gold mines in recent years. Reuters news agency reports that the amount of mercury in the river leads to rising levels.
Environmental activists and tribal people are continuously attacked by illegally wood cutters and drug smugglers in other parts of Peruvian Amazon.
Pope said in Peru that he would "break the historical ideology of seeing Amazon as an inexhaustible resource source for other countries without worrying about the people living here."
Speaking to the indigenous population in Puerto Maldonado, a small town, the Amazon region has so far claimed that this kind of threat does not exist.
Pope Francis, aged 81 from Argentina, went to Peru for the second and last phase of a week-long tour of the Latin American region, which he called the Pope.
What did the Pope say?
The AFF news agency reported that dancing and souvenir were painted in their body, dipping their head with colorful feathers on the head, and dancing and singing in Puerto Maldonado.
Thousands of people from Brazil, Bolivia and Bolivia in the Amazon region came to meet the Pope, who spoke to Pope Francis saying "today the Amazon people who are threatened in their own lands are not in this situation."
"Amazon is a controversial land area in many affairs, and on the one hand, there is pressure on the big business interest on petroleum, gas, wood and gold, and on the other, there is a threat to the forgeries of the natural resources of the Amazon region, Pope said, "Yes, for some you are considered an obstacle or trouble, but you're all a cry of psyche," Pope said.
How big is the threat facing Amazon?
Yasika Bhatiaiah, a representative of the big tribal people who spoke to Pope, said, "We are heavily influenced by their entry into our territories without asking them and they will die in our land and we will die."
"We will be greatly hurt if our river is destroyed by poisoning and we will be very bad, foreigners consider us to be weak and plan to take our lands in different ways." If they succeed in attracting our lands, we are likely to disappear altogether.
The region surrounding Puerto Maldonado has been affected by unregulated gold mines in recent years. Reuters news agency reports that the amount of mercury in the river leads to rising levels.
Environmental activists and tribal people are continuously attacked by illegally wood cutters and drug smugglers in other parts of Peruvian Amazon.
Pope said in Peru that he would "break the historical ideology of seeing Amazon as an inexhaustible resource source for other countries without worrying about the people living here."
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