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.”
To answer your question I was both a paratrooper and a jumpmaster in the Army. Mercifully, was never a towed jumper nor did I every have to recover one back into the aircraft as a JM. I just liked the term as a screen name.
I JM’ed many jumpers from Huey’s back in the day (Ft Rucker), one of which become towed, and had to be cut loose. Never myself either. A memory I would not have recalled had we not had this conversation. :)
Uncontacted, my @ss.
Well, they don’t have cellphones...................
Great. Now they have chainsaws.
Uncontacted?? Who took the picture?
And where did they get iron to make those spears?..................
During World War II my father served as a radio operator in the Amazon.
They were on the eastern tip of the Amazon where it is closest to Europe and Africa—airmen in distress landed there from time to time.
He told stories about real headhunters—cannibals that were not that far from their small airfield.
The radio-men were given stern warnings about not wandering into the jungle.
Most the bowes they use are good for birds and lizzards, or very small prey.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403021/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520green%2520inferno
"A group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished."
The student were trying to save the rain forest for the local cannibals, and the cannibals were trying to invite the students over 'for lunch'. Great fun!
The reason “Latinos” look they way they do is that they are descended from the original tribes that lived in Latin America.
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