Company operating near the border with Peru has reportedly had near encounters with indigenous people living in “isolation”Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters with a group of indigenous people living in what the United Nations calls “isolation”,raising major concern for the group’s welfare. The company doing the exploring, BGP Bolivia, and is ultimately a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC),one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world. The near encounters are reported to have taken position in the north-west of the country, close to the border with Peru and just to the east of the world-notorious Madidi National Park.
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Source: theguardian.com