Violent clash with Mascho Piro leaves 3 loggers wounded in Peruvian Amazon

Violent clash with Mascho Piro leaves 3 loggers wounded in Peruvian Amazon

Sub: Geo

Sec: Human Geo

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• The Mascho Piro clashed with loggers, reportedly injuring at least three with arrows, according to Survival International and the indigenous organisation FENAMAD.

Details:

• The loggers were allegedly stealing timber from the Mascho Piro territory along the Pariamanu River, an area recognized but not formally protected by the Peruvian government.
• Indigenous organisations demand the site be added to the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve.

Mashco Piro- Uncontacted Tribe:

• The Mashco Piro, numbering over 750, are nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon jungles near Peru’s borders with Brazil and Bolivia.
• Peru’s government forbids contact with them to prevent disease spread, and most information about them comes from the Yine people.

Source: DTE