"Many Photos" - Brit environmental activist found BURNED to death at youth hostel in the Amazon

A BRITISH environmental activist has been found BURNED to death at a youth hostel he ran in the Peruvian Amazon.

Paul McAuley, 71, had long worked to protect Peru’s historically discriminated tribes in the battle against powerful oil and mining interests in the country.

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Paul McAuley was found burned to death at a youth hostel in Peru[/caption]

In 2010, the government tried unsuccessful to strip him of his residency for allegedly inciting unrest after he fought attempts to open up the Amazon to drilling.

The La Salle Christian Brothers said in a statement yesterday that the deeply religious Brit had been burned to death.

Authorities are questioning six indigenous youth who lived in the hostel he managed in a poor section of the city of Iquitos.

In 2004, McAuley founded the Loreto Environmental Network, a group that works on behalf of indigenous groups.

He and environmentalists opposed then-President Alan Garcia’s moves to open up the Amazon to unprecedented mining and oil exploration and drilling.

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They also complained that Garcia’s government has done little to impede rampant logging, which they say threatens the existence of indigenous groups.

Environmental activists mourned his passing Tuesday.

“What tough news. A great man who did a lot for indigenous communities, their rights and the forests,” tweeted Julia Urrunaga, director of Peru Programs at Environmental Investigation Agency.

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