Your Excellencies President Humala and President Rousseff,
Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department FUNAI has released an urgent warning of imminent contact between uncontacted Indians and outsiders on the Peru-Brazil border.
FUNAI believes that the Indians are fleeing from illegal logging in Peru.
First contact is likely to result in the spread of disease, which would be fatal for the uncontacted Indians.
I urge you to uphold the Peruvian and Brazilian constitutions and international law, and map out and protect all uncontacted Indians’ land as a matter of urgency. If your governments do not act quickly, the lives of some of the last uncontacted Indians on the planet will be destroyed forever.
Yours sincerely,