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Peru’s reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.

FENAMAD, representing 39 Indigenous communities in the Cusco and Madre de Dios regions, said Monday that it believes illegal logging was taking place on Mashco Piro territory and that one logger was injured in the July 27 attack.

A few weeks ago, photos emerged of the uncontacted tribe searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, which some experts say was evidence logging concessions are “dangerously close” to its territory.

“It is presumably illegal because the area where the incident occurred is a forestry concession that belonged to Wood Tropical Forest until November 2022, and we are not aware of a concession that has requested or granted enabling rights in the same area,” said a FENAMAD representative, speaking anonymously out of personal security concerns.

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Princess Mononoke would be proud.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I am assuming the fight went down like this:

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Ironically I don’t think Ashitaka would approve though.

Well, fuck. Now i gotta go watch Mononoke again. I hope you're happy.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

So would Princess Kenny for some reason

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 month ago
[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the news went from describing them as "uncontacted" to "reclusive" pretty quickly

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as a fully uncontacted tribe. The term is used to refer to peoples that choose to remain in isolation. Therefore, "uncontacted" and "reclusive" can more or less be used interchangeably.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

At least that we know of ..

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

It only takes once

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago
[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree with the sentiment. But the whole guns, germs, and steel thing is what devastated tribal peoples in the first place.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are pretty good at "guessing" when raids are going to happen and misteriously disappear just in time, often leaving vehicles and equipment behind.

Their guessing abilities should be studied tbh.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Destroy the equipment and vehicles so cost goes up for them.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 month ago

Wasn't the problem that other people had these things and they didn't?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Firstly, it's hard to buy ammunition in the forest what with a lack of stores.

Secondly, they already have excellent aim with their poison-tipped arrows they've been hunting with since they were children, which also have the advantage of being close to silent. So I think maybe stick to those.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem I have with that is the same problem I have with the way people talk about most colonizer-colonizee(?) relationships. In many cases, you don't have the big bad powerful people going in and doing violence against natives. The powerful sit at home, and force their local poor into a position where they have to do violence in order to survive. Yeah, you had your Christopher Columbus types, but they weren't/aren't the majority.

Odds are, those loggers are members of another local tribe, who have been economically forced into illegal logging. Logging is super dangerous, and there's no way that the people actually responsible, who are the ones making real money off of it, are out there with chainsaws.

Tl;dr, they need glocks and bus tickets

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Odds are, those loggers are members of another local tribe, who have been economically forced into illegal logging

It's that 100%. There is is long interview with an American that's been living in the Amazon since he was in his early twenty and mentions this

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Put a python in the cab of their equipment

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We do not blame the lion when it eats a trespasser.

[–] amanda@aggregatet.org 3 points 1 month ago

Actually we do in most places