Uncontacted Amazonian tribe hearth arrows at loggers ‘trespassing on their land’
A remote tribe from Peru has reportedly shot at trespassers with bows and arrows in an attempt to protect their territory.
The Mashco Piro tribe are an uncontacted indigenous tribe from south eastern Peru and were recently photographed searching for food. This comes amid fears their rainforest home is increasingly being hacked down by loggers.
The tribe is the largest group of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation anywhere in the world, numbering some 750. Footage also emerged of some tribe members standing near the Las Piedras river in small clusters, with some jogging around to pick up spears resting on the floor.
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Experts are now worried this rare appearance might mean some have been forced out their homes in the region, which may lead them to retaliate violently against illegal tree felling operators.
FENAMAD, a regional Indigenous organisation, confirmed a logger was left injured after a group was illegally chopping down trees.
“It is presumably illegal because the area where the incident occurred is a forestry concession that belonged to Wood Tropical Forest until November 2022 and we are not aware of a concession that has requested or granted enabling rights in the same area,” said a FENAMAD representative.
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The organisation states a lack of protection by the Peruvian government could produce “devastating consequences” as illegal activity on the Mashco Piro territory increases.
In the past Mashco Piro tribe members have taken matters into their own hands. In 2022 two Catahua workers were shot with bows and arrows while fishing on the Tahuamanu River, with one dying of their injuries.
Alfredo Vargas Pio, President of a local Indigenous organisation, said: “The logging workers could bring in new diseases which would wipe out the Mashco Piro and there’s also a risk of violence on either side, so it’s very important that the territorial rights of the Mashco Piro are recognized and protected in law.
“This is a humanitarian disaster in the making – it’s absolutely vital that the loggers are thrown out, and Mashco Piro’s territory is properly protected at last.”
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