‘Uncontacted’ Indigenous group attacks loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

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theguardian.com

Members of an “uncontacted” Indigenous group used bows and arrows to attack loggers in the Peruvian Amazon in a confrontation that left at least one person injured, according to a local Indigenous organisation.

The incident came just weeks after more than 50 men and boys from the isolated group known as the Mashco Piro made a rare appearance on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon.

Campaigners warn that the Mashco Piro are under siege from logging activity – both illegal and legal – and the latest clashes are likely to increase calls for the government to finally demarcate their ancestral territory after years of conflict.

“This is a permanent emergency,” said Teresa Mayo, Peru researcher for Survival International, an NGO that promotes Indigenous rights, which released images of the Mashco Piro last month. “It is very tense in the zone. Everyone there is afraid,” she said of the area where logging concessions border the 829,941-hectare (2m-acre) Madre de Dios territorial reserve, a protected area where the tribe lives.

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I know they will probably never see this, but fuck yeah get those loggers!

I get what you mean, but the decision to cut those trees has not been made by the ones cutting them down. The higher-ups probably won't care much about injuries of their loggers, other than that it impacts their profits.

It is good those guys fight back, of course.

Get enough loggers injured and it's the loggers that will injure the people sending them in dangerous territory

“Their land is being invaded by illegal logging and drug-traffickers, so to save their lives they are spreading into other areas,” he said. “The Mashco Piro are facing genocide.”

The important part. This is literally self-defense.

Despite its controversial location, the company’s logging concession, held since 2002, is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international NGO that certifies that timber extraction is sustainable and ethical.

Of course. It's the "Forest Slayer Clowns".

I’m woefully ignorant of this issue. Can you tell me more about the FSC and what’s going on in the Amazon? Or direct me to any good resources? It’s one of those subjects I feel like I should know more about.

The FSC is one of those greenwashing certification organizations.

https://news.mongabay.com/?s=FSC

Ugh of course

All ya gotta do is buy some carbon credits and that rainforest was asking for the ecocide, all nice and legal like...

That un-contacted tribe? Terrorists!

"Carbon credits" i just can't even 🙂‍↔️ what's the fucking logic? Give us lots of money and we'll make the pollution you created cease to exist?

I mean they have the right idea. It seems the only way people will take you seriously these days is to just be straight up ungovernable

They likely have little idea of what being governable means.

They’re an uncontacted tribe. All they know is some strange people showed up on their land and started wrecking the place.

If some people showed up at your house, wearing strange clothes and speaking a language you don’t understand, started tearing down your walls and throwing out your food, wouldn’t you resort to some kind of violence to defend yourself and your home?

This must be terrifying for them, especially because a lot of uncontacted tribes have oral histories about being forced out of their original lands by what we know to be mercenaries.

Just keep sending Mormons at them, two at a time. It might take a while, but we'll turn Utah blue eventually

You're assuming sending them two at a time is enough to outpace their reproduction.

I just meant they only seem to travel as binary pairs, you could serialize it into a constant stream

“It is very tense in the zone. Everyone there is afraid"

Yeah I'd be afraid too of Peruvians trying to obliterate their own soil. Well done to the indigenous group for protecting their interests - they surely got there much earlier.

They may be uncontacted, but it sounds like their arrows are very good at contacting things.