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to accept that their actions can have tragic consequences to human life. The Achuar have also been trained to use video-recording technology, so evidence of the environmental damage that these extraction companies leave behind is also presented as prima facie evidence.
The mash-up of data that combines the historical collective intelligence of the village, created initially with pens and crayons and perhaps the odd spot of paint, is then translated into millimetre perfect maps. These maps have become transformational, causing companies to think harder about how and where they are going to mine in the forests of the Amazon. It certainly
has changed the power relationships between the ‘savage’ people of the rainforest and the ‘cultured’ people of Lima, or should that be the other way around?
Home or block 64? In 2012 Talisman Energy (TLM) announced its decision to cease oil exploration activities in the Peruvian Amazon and to exit the country. Despite Talisman’s claim of attaining local support from communities and signing good neighbour agreements with 66 communities downriver from their operations, the company never had the consent of the majority of communities living within Block 64.
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