2024-09-06 13:41:40
At least two loggers have been shot with arrows, one injured and two others are missing after clashing with members of the reclusive Mashko Piro people in the Amazon. The information comes from indigenous activists.
Peru’s Amazonian indigenous groups and the NGO Survival International have asked the international NGO Forest Stewardship Council to cancel logging on the border with the reserve where the isolated indigenous groups live. It is the organization that is responsible for whether the timber is harvested ethically.
Eusebio Rios, vice president of the regional indigenous federation Fenamad, which unites 39 indigenous groups in Peru’s Madre de Dios and Cusco regions, said Tuesday: “There are wounded, dead and missing. We don’t know what’s going on.
He called for the workers to be evacuated from the area after the clash and added that the federation has long insisted that this territory be protected for the peoples who are not in contact with the rest of the world, writes The Guardian.
The attack took place near the Pariamanu River in the province of Madre de Dios, you are in the area of the Mashco Piro tribe.
This is not the first case of an attack by the isolated tribe. In August, at least one logger was injured in the same area. In 2022, one woodcutter was killed by arrows and another was injured.
“This is a tragedy that could have been avoided. Peruvian authorities have known for years that this area they have decided to sell for logging is actually Mashco Piro territory,” said Carolyn Pearce, executive director of Survival International.