Illegal loggers in Peru are clashing with an uncontacted Amazon tribe, warns Survival International
This June 2024 photo provided by Survival International shows members of the Mashco Piro along Las Piedras River in the Amazon near the community of Monte Salvado, in Madre de Dios province, Peru
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ILLEGAL loggers in Peru are felling trees in protected territory and coming into conflict with an uncontacted Amazon tribe, the Survival International indigenous rights campaign warns.
“It appears that at least one logger has been seriously wounded, and possibly two others also, by arrows fired at them by a large group — up to 100 — of Mashco Piro people,” the group says.
Together with the regional indigenous organisation Fenamad, Survival International is calling on Peruvian authorities to investigate the incident and ensure no logging occurs in areas of the forest recognised as Mashco Piro territory.
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