Survival International has released rare pictures of the Mashco Piro tribespeople, one of the world’s 100-odd uncontacted tribes.
- The photographs show more than 50 tribespeople on the banks of Las Piedras River, close to where logging companies have been granted concessions.
- Almost all of them live in the jungles of Amazon and southeastern Peru.
- The Mashco Piro, possibly numbering more than 750, are believed to be the largest of such tribes.
- These nomadic hunter-gatherers live in the Amazon jungles of the Madre de Dios Region, close to Peru’s border with Brazil and Bolivia.
- Peru’s government has forbidden all contact with the Mashco Piro, fearing the spread of a disease among the population to which it has no immunity.
- The tribe is very reclusive, only occasionally contacting the native but contacted Yine people.
- Much of what is known about the Mashco Piro comes from Yine accounts.
- In 2002, the Peru government created the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve to protect the territory of the Mashco Piro.
