Uncontacted tribe attacks encroaching loggers with bows and arrows in Peru’s Amazon: “A matter of life and death” [Video]

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. Survival International, an advocacy group for Indigenous peoples which closely follows the Mashco Piro’s issues, saidthe photos and videos posted showed about 53 male Mashco Piro on the …