Amazonian tribe protests at oil pollution

Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon are stepping up their campaign against oil companies, as the BBC’s Dan Collyns reports from the capital, Lima.

Peru’s Amazon state, Loreto, takes up almost a third of the entire country.

A vast expanse of rainforest divided by tributaries of the Amazon river, even its main city Iquitos is only accessible by boat or plane.

But its inaccessibility has not discouraged oil companies from hunting for black gold, and they have been doing so for the last 35 years.

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