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An adventure in the wilds of the Amazon – without roughing it

The Daily Telegraph 18 Sep 2023
It’s a pygmy marmoset. the world’s smallest monkey,” Neycer grinned ... Set at the Amazon river’s head and flanked by its Ucayali and Maranon tributaries, Pacaya-Samiria is ­accessible only by boat ... .
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Foreigners on Peru riverboat freed after pollution protest

Federal News Radio 05 Nov 2022
Wadson Trujillo said the passengers, including citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France as well as Peru, set off along the Maranon River at 1.45 p.m ... Wadson Trujillo said the passengers, including citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France as well as Peru, set off along the Maranon River at 1.45 p.m.
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Tourists on Peru riverboat freed after pollution protest

Seattle PI 05 Nov 2022
Wadson Trujillo said the passengers, including citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France as well as Peru, set off along the Maranon River at 1.45 p.m ... Trujillo said oil spills in 2014 and again in September this year “have caused much damage” to people who depend on fish from the river as a significant part of their diet ... .
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Tourists freed after kidnap by Amazon tribe over oil spills

Irish Independent 05 Nov 2022
The travellers had been detained overnight by local tribesmen as a protest to demand government attention to complaints of oil pollution.They were said to be safe and well last night.Tribal leader Wadson Trujillo said the passengers, including citizens of Germany, Great Britain, ...
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Indigenous group in Peru’s Amazon frees tourists after protest

Al Jazeera 05 Nov 2022
... local river, according to local media ... The chief of the indigenous group, Watson Trujillo, said all the tourists had departed along the Maranon River just after midday on Friday onboard the vessel named Eduardo 11, which had been held since the day before by residents of Cuninico.
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Indigenous people detain tourists in Peruvian Amazon after oil spill

RTE 04 Nov 2022
Indigenous people in Peru's Amazon have detained a group of foreign and Peruvian tourists travelling on a river boat to protest the lack of government aid following an oil spill in the area, local media have reported ... The government and police did not comment on the incident, which took place on a tributary of the Maranon river.
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British and American tourists are among 70 adults and children being held hostage on a ...

The Daily Mail 04 Nov 2022
Trujillo said his group wanted to put pressure on the government to send a delegation to assess the environmental damage from the September 16 spill of 2,500 tons of crude oil into the Cuninico river ... The government and police did not comment on the incident, which took place on a tributary of the Maranon river.
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Foreigners aboard Peru riverboat held in pollution protest

San Francisco Chronicle 04 Nov 2022
Wadson Trujillo said the foreign passengers include citizens of Germany, Great Britain, Spain and France who had been travelling along the Maranon River when the vessel named Eduardo II was halted Thursday by residents of Cuninico ... the river as a significant part of their diet.
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British tourists in Peru held on boat seized over Amazon oil spill dispute released

ITV 04 Nov 2022
According to local reports by TV Peru Noticias, indigenous Cuninico people took control of the Maranon river in the Urarinas, northern Peru, in a demonstration over an oil leak in the area on 16 September ... block passage to boats on the river until they received government support.
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Indigenous people detain passengers aboard Peru riverboat

The Los Angeles Times 04 Nov 2022
Wadson Trujillo said the foreign passengers include citizens of Germany, Britain, Spain and France who had been traveling along the Maranon River when the vessel named Eduardo 11 was halted Thursday by residents of Cuninico ... Politics Supreme Court will reconsider Navajos’ claim for more water from the Colorado River.
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Peru indigenous groups block river in the Amazon after oil spill

Reuters 29 Sep 2022
The government said in a statement communities were blocking the large Maranon river, a key tributary of the Amazon, which was preventing officials from taking water samples and distributing medicines to the affected indigenous communities ... the first to flow directly onto a river.
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Equilibrium/Sustainability — Hurricane Ian severs sole connection to Gulf islands

The Hill 29 Sep 2022
Blocking a river in the Amazon. Indigenous activists in Peru on Wednesday blockaded the Maranon River in a protest over the spilling of 2,500 barrels of oil in the Amazon rain forest, Reuters reported.  The Maranon is the main tributary of the enormous Amazon River and a key regional transport hub. .
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Peru: Months after huge earthquake, survivors feel abandoned

Al Jazeera 02 May 2022
Bagua, Peru – In this isolated jungle region some 1,200km north of the Peruvian capital, hundreds of people are still homeless after a huge earthquake last November triggered landslides and flooding. Communities along the turbulent Utcubamba and Maranon rivers lost everything. their homes, livelihoods, schools and health centres ... .
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‘Agaton’ leaves one dead in Negros Occidental

The Philadelphia Inquirer 13 Apr 2022
... early 30s, was drunk when he crossed the Himoga-an River in Sagay City on Tuesday, April 12, Sagay Mayor Alfredo Maranon III said.
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Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Karim Ainouz join 2022 Berlinale juries

Screen Daily 26 Jan 2022
Night Shyamalan on the main international jury ... Shyamalan was selected as jury president in October last year. A three-person jury for the Encounters section consists of Chiara Maranon, director of content at film platform Mubi; UK artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers; and Swiss filmmaker Silvan Zurcher ... .
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