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The Amazon (Disappearing cultures) - Websites and Online Resources

Wildlife at risk as Amazon tribes come under threat from oil exploration
From The Guardian newspaper
How to save an Amazonian tribe
From The Guardian newspaper
Questions and answers: uncontacted tribes
This information from SurvivalInternational.org is not specific to just the Amazon tribes.
Worlds of difference: A Homelands Production
"Exploring the responses of societies with strong local traditions to the pressures and opportunities of a globalizing world."
Andean Harvest
"Even the most isolated Andean communities are fast becoming incorporated into the cash economy. How they manage the transition may determine whether their ancient tapestry will be torn to shreds, or made even more resilient and lovely."
Saving vanishing ‘tongues’
"Many languages disappear every year. In a race against time, language researchers are using digital technology to preserve those tongues from extinction"
Explorer Wade Davis on Vanishing Cultures
"Wade Davis is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has traveled and lived among the people of traditional cultures in many countries."

Disappearing Cultures - The Last Speakers

"Languages are disappearing at such an alarming rate that many have declared a global language extinction crisis. The Last Speakers book is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages."

** May not be available outside of WAB

Mozambique: Protect the Rights of Farmers Resettled for Coal Mines

From Human Rights Watch ** May not be available outside of WAB