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Deep in the Amazon, an 'Alarming' Development

Isolated Mashco Piro tribe members emerge in neighboring village, may soon clash with loggers

(Newser) - What the AP terms an "alarming" development has emerged regarding Peru's uncontacted Mashco Piro tribe, an Indigenous group hunkered down in the Amazon rainforest and that generally avoids contact with the rest of the world. Members of the tribe have popped up in a neighboring village to their...

After Warnings, Isolated Tribe Goes on the Attack

Following clash with Mashco Piro in Peruvian Amazon, 2 loggers are dead, 2 are missing

(Newser) - After an isolated Amazonian tribe attacked loggers who got too close to their Peruvian territory this summer, Indigenous rights group FENAMAD warned that, without government intervention, more violent clashes could come. Now, two loggers have been shot dead with arrows, another has been injured, and two others have disappeared from...

'Uncontacted' Indigenous Group Just Made Contact

Mashco Piro tribe reportedly attacked loggers in Peruvian Amazon who were getting too close

(Newser) - An "uncontacted" Indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon apparently spooked by local loggers getting too close to their area went on the attack last month, injuring at least one logger and possibly killing two others, according to an NGO there. Per the Guardian , the Mashco Piro tribe reportedly carried...

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