Uncontacted tribe found in Peruvian Amazon where loggers work
The Survival International organisation published rare images of the indigenous Mashco Piro tribe living in the remote Peruvian Amazon, showing dozens of people on the riverbank, not far from the place where logging companies have concessions, Reuters reports
According to FENAMAD, a local indigenous rights group, members of the tribe have been coming out of the rainforest in search of food in recent weeks, apparently moving away from a growing number of loggers.
As noted by Survival International, the Mashco Piro were photographed at the end of June on the banks of a river in the Madre de Dios region in southeast Peru, near the border with Brazil.
"These incredible images show that a large number of isolated Mascho Piro live alone a few kilometres from where the loggers are about to start their operations,” Caroline Peerce, the Director of Survival International, said.
Several logging companies own timber concessions in the territory inhabited by the Mashco Piro tribe.
