Posted on 08/06/2024 9:01:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
Mascho Piro, an uncontacted Amazonian ethnic tribal group, attacked loggers with bows and arrows who were suspected of encroaching on their territory, according to an indigenous organization, The Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.
FENAMAD, a regional indigenous organization, said they believe illegal logging was the root of a conflict the entity said has left one logger injured following a July 27 attack by the tribe, the outlet reported.
Some experts cited weeks-old photos of the tribe searching for sustenance on a beach as evidence that the logging concessions were too “dangerously close” to their territory, according to the AP.
“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,” a FENAMAD representative told the AP. FENAMAD has demanded that the Peruvian government increase its protection measures in the area and rein in increased and illegal economic operations, the outlet noted.
The organization pointed out that such activities may create “devastating consequences” for the locals, citing the possibility of disease transmission and violence, the AP reported.
Survival International, a non-governmental organization dedicated toward indigenous issues, has lobbied Peru to increase its policing presence in these remote areas of the Amazon, the outlet reported. “This is a permanent emergency. For the last month we have been seeing the Mascho Piro every two weeks at different points, and in all of them they are surrounded by loggers,” Teresa Mayo, a Survival International researcher, told the AP during a phone call. “It’s truly a matter of life and death. And only the government can and has the duty to stop it.”
Ping!.....................
Dang Amazon Prime is everywhere and battling for dominance.
Had heard one logger was run through with a six-foot long arrow.
Six feet!
That’s gonna leave a mark.
AP's tribe!
What kind of blow can fling a 6ft arrow? That’s more like a javelin!
They can be a diplomatic challenge...
HUH? They have waterfront property? They gotta go. Maybe some surplus blankets?
Jeff Bezos really needs to get his people under control.
Is that the tribe or any urban area in a blue state?
See pic at site.
If they are ‘uncontacted’ where did they get the iron to make those spears?
And they sure do look very ‘LATINO’ to be a native tribe................
You guys mad?
LOL. Check out the picture at the site. They are all posing very politely for the picture. If this was a real savage tribe that was at war with civilization, they would have eaten the photographer rather than pose for a picture.
Hey loggers ... cut all the pesky trees down. They don’t do anything except suck up CO2 and emit Oxygen.
Some kind of spear, yeah. Now that you mention it, that’s much more likely.
Before your comment reimposed reality, This Guy had been vaguely imagining a monstrously long Long Bow. How else to chuck an arrow that long? LOL
You need a ringer...
Bogus. Astroturf.
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