National Geographic News, Reporting Your World Daily

Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Drug Wars Threaten to Wipe Out Amazon Nomads


Email to a Friend	<< Back to Full Story

Two Nukak Maku Indian women rest at a refugee camp near San José del Guaviare, Colombia, on May 12, 2005.

The estimated 500 members of the nomadic tribe are being pushed out of their traditional lands by civil strife and wars over coca, the plant source of cocaine, rights groups say.

Photograph by Eliana Aponte/Reuters