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The Harakmbut: Defending The Amarakaeri Reserve Also at risk is the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve, the ancestral homelands of the Harakmbut people in the Madre de Dios region of the south-east Peruvian Amazon. The oil concession known as Block 76 covers 70% of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve including traditional Harakmbut villages that came into contact with the outside world less than sixty years ago. The Peruvian state created the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in 2002 to protect Harakmbut lands from loggers, miners and colonists. The Reserve is part of a globally important conservation corridor extending from the ecologically renowned Manu National Park to the Tambopata Reserve and the Baja Sonene National Park. In 1997 Harakmbut resistance prevented Mobil Oil from operating in their community-held lands. A year later Mobil withdrew from the region.
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