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Indigenous rights NGO Survival International has released rare pictures of the Mashco Piro tribes people, one of the world’s 100-odd uncontacted tribes.
About Mashco Piro Tribe
- Almost all of them live in the jungles of Amazon and Southeast Asia.
- The Mashco Piro, possibly numbering more than 750, are believed to be the largest of such tribes.
- These nomadic hunter-gatherers live in the Amazon jungles of the Madre de Dios Region, close to Peru’s border with Brazil and Bolivia.
- Peru’s government has forbidden all contact with the Mashco Piro, fearing the spread of a disease among the population to which it has no immunity.
- The tribe is very reclusive, only occasionally contacting the native but contacted Yine people.
- Much of what is known about the Mashco Piro comes from Yine accounts.
- In 2002, the Peru government created the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve to protect the territory of the Mashco Piro. But large parts of their traditional ground lie outside the reserve.
- Swathes of land have since been sold off as logging concessions, giving companies the right to fell the evergreen forests for timber and other produce.
- In the 1880s, during Peru’s rubber boom, the Mashco Piro were among the many tribes who were forcibly displaced from their land, enslaved, and killed en masse.
- The survivors moved further upstream on the Manu river, where the Mashco Piro have lived in isolation ever since.
Source: IE
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