Context

• 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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