Bogota, Colombia (AP) – Members of the indigenous tribe who live deep in the Amazon rainforest Peru and avoid contact with outsiders were reported entering the neighboring village in what activists consider to be an alarming sign that the group is under stress.
Observation of Mashco Piro members come as a log company building a bridge that could provide outsiders easier access to the tribe territory, which could increase the risk of illness and conflicts, according to the survival of International, which advocates indigenous rights.
Mashco Piro is one of the largest non -contact groups in the world and live without regular interaction with external society to protect their culture and health. The group can also be simple colds because it lacks immunity to common diseases.
Loggeers, who interfered with the tribes, were previously killed.
Enrique Añez, president of the nearby Yine community, another indigenous group, said on Tuesday that Mashco Piro members were seen around Yine Nueva Oceania.
“It’s very worrying; they are in danger,” Añez said.
Añez said that heavy machines near Nueva Oceania would cut the jungle paths and across the rivers to Mashco Piro. The village sits at a key access point on Mashco Piro, which makes it one of the few places where members of the tribe were sometimes seen.
Survival International last year released photos depicting dozens of Mashco Piro Near active zones logging. The group warns that contact with outsiders could spread disease or lead to a violent conflict – the risks that previously erased other isolated groups in the Amazon.
Two logges were killed last year In the attacks on the bow and finger After entering the Mashco Piro.
“Exactly one year after meetings and deaths, nothing has changed in terms of soil protection, and Yine now reports that they have seen both Mashco Piro and Logges in exactly the same space almost simultaneously,” said Teresa Mayo, research as Survival International. “The clash might be immediate.”
Mayo said that the log company near the indigenous group restarted operations as usual.
“They still have a government license, thus supporting their activities, even though they know that they threaten Mashco Piro and the lives of their workers,” she said.
The Forest Administration Council – an international body confirming sustainable wood products – suspends agrees with the protocol company Maderera Canales moves until November. However, Survival International said that the traces of bridge and heavy machines are proof that logging is still ongoing.
The company’s concessions or licensed logging borders the Madre de Dios zoning reservation and overlap the recognized land Mashco Piro designed by native organizations for new protection.
Associated Press addressed Maderer Canales of Turn, but did not receive an immediate answer.
Peru by the Ministry of Culture – authorized to support cultural identity and supervision of indigenous rights – said that it reviewed the Survival International report.
When asked about what measures the government adopted to protect groups, such as Mashco Piro, he noted that he had created eight reserves for indigenous people in isolated, has five more waiting and operates 19 control points with 59 protective agents. He said that more than 440 patrols were carried out this year and that its budget for the protection of isolated communities in 2025 more than doubled.
The move of the Tahuaman is a key transport route in this part of the Amazon. The permanent bridge will allow the year -round approach of trucks, which ecologists claim to be able to speed up logging and deforestation deeper inside the forest.
Defenders of rights argue that logging is pushing Mashco Piro towards nearby villages, which is more likely to meet.
César Inzenza, Peruvian environmental lawyer who, after this issue, said, “these native nations are exposed and vulnerable to any kind of contact or illness, yet the mining activities continue despite all the evidence in the territory.”
He noted that Madre de Dios’s territorial reserve – created by the Peruvian government in 2002 to protect countries of unaccked -in and recently contacted native populations – did not prevent conflict because “not necessarily know his boundaries”.
Madre de Dios is a remote Southeast Amazon region bordering on Brazil and Bolivia. It is one of the most biodiversity areas in Peru, but it was also hot places for illegal gold mining, mining and other mining industries that bring outsiders into contact with isolated trunks.
“The growing presence of forestry operations will almost certainly lead to restored contact with isolated indigenous inhabitants, creating a violent situation that also threatens them in this area,” Ivanza said.
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