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The Murui or Huitoto, according to their worldview, is born from a mother cave located deep in the jungle. A perception of the world that is shared by the rest of the ethnic groups that inhabit the Amazon, whose life in total harmony with nature was fractured in the late nineteenth century, when the "rubber fever" killed more than 30 thousand indigenous people. Many ethnic groups were enslaved and killed until almost their total disappearance. A century after this genocide, the children of survivors and uncontacted peoples continue to suffer the consequences of "development." 80% of the Peruvian Amazon is in the hands of extractive companies that are changing the landscape of the forest. In the south of the country, in Madre de Dios, illegal mining has destroyed more than 60,000 hectares of forest; and in the north, the great oil pipeline that crosses more than a thousand kilometers of the forest has already left 99 spills in its 42 years of existence. Illegal loggers and drug traffickers operate in regions where isolated indigenous peoples are being displaced. The new colonization of the jungle, the lack of opportunities and the exodus to the cities jeopardize the permanence of these cultures.
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The Murui or Huitoto, according to their worldview, is born from a mother cave located deep in the jungle. A perception of the world that is shared by the rest of the ethnic groups that inhabit the Amazon, whose life in total harmony with nature was fractured in the late nineteenth century, when the "rubber fever" killed more than 30 thousand indigenous people. Many ethnic groups were enslaved and killed until almost their total disappearance. A century after this genocide, the children of survivors and uncontacted peoples continue to suffer the consequences of "development." 80% of the Peruvian Amazon is in the hands of extractive companies that are changing the landscape of the forest. In the south of the country, in Madre de Dios, illegal mining has destroyed more than 60,000 hectares of forest; and in the north, the great oil pipeline that crosses more than a thousand kilometers of the forest has already left 99 spills in its 42 years of existence. Illegal loggers and drug traffickers operate in regions where isolated indigenous peoples are being displaced. The new colonization of the jungle, the lack of opportunities and the exodus to the cities jeopardize the permanence of these cultures.