Isolated Amazon tribe seen near logging bridge site, alarming rights group
Bogota, Colombia (AP) – Peru’s members of a native tribe living deep in Amazon rainforest and avoiding contact with foreigners, activists reported that the group is a worrying sign that the group is under stress.
The landscapes of the members of the Mashco Piro tribe come as a log company, building a bridge that can make it easier to access the region of foreigners, which can increase the risk of illness and conflict, according to Survival International, defending indigenous rights.
Mashco Piro is one of the largest groups in the world that lives without regular interaction with the external society to protect their culture and health. Even a simple cold can be fatal for the group, because it lacks immunity to widespread diseases.
The stumps that raped the territory of the tribe have been killed before.
Another local group, Enrique Añez, the president of the nearby community, said in a statement on Tuesday that Mashco Piro members were seen around the village Nueva Oceania.
Añez said, “Very worrying; in danger,” he said.
Añez said that the heavy machines near Nueva Oceania cut the roads from the forest and rivers to Mashco Piro region. The village is sitting at a key access point to Mashco Piro’s territory, which becomes one of the few places where tribal members are occasionally seen.
The risk of registering workers and indigenous peoples increased risk
Survival International released photos shown last year Duzines Mashco Piro Close to active log regions. The group warns that contact with foreigners can spread the disease or cause severe conflict – risks that have previously destroyed other isolated groups in Amazon.
Last year, two days were killed Bow And-Ok attacks After entering Mashco Piro area.
Teresa Mayo, a researcher at Survival International, said, özen A year after matches and deaths, nothing has changed in terms of land protection, and again, both Mashco Piro and the stumps report that they see the billets in almost the same area. ” “Conflict may be close.”
Mayo said that the Tomruk company, near the local group, restarted operations normally.
“They still have the government’s license and support their activities in this way even if they know that both Mashco Piro and their workers have risked their lives,” he said.
The Forest Management Council, an international organization that approves sustainable wooden products, suspended the approval of Tahuamanu, the Tomruk company, until November. However, Survival International, bridge and heavy machine footprints are still proof that recording the diary is still happening.
The company’s privileges or licensed registration areas limits Madre de Dios Regional Protection Area and recommended for new protection by local organizations.
Associated Press reached Maderra Canales Tahuamanu, but immediately did not receive any response.
Peru’s Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for encouraging cultural identity and supervised domestic rights, said that the AP has reviewed Survival International’s report.
When the government was questioned which measures to protect groups such as Mashco Piro, he said that he had eight reserves for indigenous peoples, that he had five more waiting for five more, and that he was running 19 control poles with 59 protection agents. He said that more than 440 patrols were carried out this year and that the isolated communities have increased more than twice in 2025.
Rape encounters more than isolated group
The Tahuamanu River is an important way to transport in this part of Amazon. A permanent bridge will allow the truck access during the year when environmentalists say that they can accelerate logism and forest in the forest.
Rights defenders say that Logging pushed Mashco Piro towards nearby villages and makes it more likely to encounter.
Following the subject, César Ipenza, a Peruvian environmental lawyer, said to the AP, “These indigenous peoples are revealed against any contact or disease and vulnerable, but the deduction activities continue despite all the evidence of the problems they cause in the region.”
In 2002, the Peru Government said that the Madre de Dios Regional Protection Area, which was created to protect the territories that have been contacted with unlimited and recently domestic peoples, did not prevent conflict because they did not prevent conflict because they do not necessarily know their borders ”.
Madre de Dios is the distant Southeast Amazon region surrounding Brazil and Bolivia. It is one of the most biological diversity of Peru, but it has been a warm place for foreign gold mining, logism and other landing industries that come into contact with the isolated tribes.
“The increasing presence of forestry operations will lead to almost absolutely isolated indigenous peoples, and will create a violent situation that endangers them and the workers in the region,” he said.
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