Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve

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Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve

This gallery contains a copy of the 1991 decree that created the Upper Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve and a copy of an article published in The Daily Journal that explains how Charles Brewer Carias and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon lobbied President Carlos Andres Perez to achieve the creation of the biosphere reserve and protect the Yanomami people of Venezuela.

Our position on
the Orinoco Mining Arc
Arco Minero del Orinoco

The purpose of SOSOrinoco is to shed light on the existing body of work regarding the situation in the Amazonia and Orinoquia regions of Venezuela, to raise awareness of the tragedy that is occurring and to outline some urgent measures that need to be taken in order to halt the unfolding human and environmental disaster.

Ecosystems Degradation
Violation of
Human Rights
Loss of
Sovereignty
Health
Crisis
Illicit
Business

Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve

Our position on the Orinoco Mining Arc Arco Minero del Orinoco

Our position on
the Orinoco Mining Arc
Arco Minero del Orinoco