The Associated Press An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe\u2019s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that logging concessions are \u201cdangerously close\u201d to the tribe\u2019s territory. Survival International said the photos and video it posted this week show members of the Mashco Piro looking for plantains and cassava near the community of Monte Salvado, on the Las Piedras River in Madre de Dios province. Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside territory inhabited by the tribe, according to Survival International, which has long sought to protect what it says is the largest \u201cuncontacted\u201d tribe in the world. The proximity raises fears of conflict between logging workers and tribal members, as well as the possibility that loggers… <\/p>\n
The Associated Press An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe\u2019s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that logging concessions are \u201cdangerously close\u201d to the tribe\u2019s territory. Survival International said the photos and video it posted this week show members of the Mashco Piro looking for plantains and cassava near the community of Monte Salvado, on the Las Piedras River in Madre de Dios province. Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside territory inhabited by the tribe, according to Survival International, which has long sought to protect what it says is the largest \u201cuncontacted\u201d tribe in the world. The proximity raises fears of conflict between logging workers and tribal members, as well as the possibility that loggers... <\/p>\n