h2. ‘Miracle’ It is not difficult to see why Perenco wants to work in this region. The discovery of oil there is believed to be the biggest in Peru in 30 years – an estimated 300 million barrels. During a personal visit to one of the wells, Peru’s president, Alan Garcia, declared the discovery a ‘miracle.’ h2. ‘We’re people just like you’ Barrett Resources, the company acquired by Perenco last year, recommended that its workers shout a number of messages if they came across any "uncontacted Indians":/tribes/isolatedperu. These included, ‘We’re people just like you’, ‘We haven’t come here to look for women, we have our own women in our own village’ and ‘Is something disturbing you?’ notextile. <a href="http://www.perenco.com"><img width="113" height="75" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://assets3.survival-international.org/pictures/215/perenco75_news_medium.jpg" /></a> Perenco claims the area is uninhabited, but the Peruvian government, the Ecuadorian government, local indigenous organizations and countless experts have all recognised the presence of isolated Indians in the area. 9 <img src="/lib/img/tagpages/lot67.jpg" style="border: 1px #333 solid;" /> notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Perenco is a Anglo-French company which has a huge oil project in Peru's northern Amazon.* This is an area inhabited by at least two vulnerable "uncontacted tribes":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes who may well be destroyed by Perenco's work there. One of the groups is believed to be a sub-group of the Waorani and another is known as the Pananujuri. No one is sure how many of them there are. notextile. </span> 3 h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Perenco website*":http://www.perenco.com <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*UK Daily Mail article*":http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1023116/Amazonian-tribes-threatened-London-based-firm-wanting-drill-oil-land.html h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted tribes of Peru*":/tribes/isolatedperu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*News: 100s of Perenco workers to enter tribes' territory*":/news/4067 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted Tribes campaign*":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go &raquo;" /> </form> </div> perenco 3 160