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Headline: Astonishing Footage Shows Uncontacted Amazonian Tribe
Caption: Astonishing Footage Shows Uncontacted Amazonian Tribe. New images show dozens of individuals from an uncontacted Amazonian tribe frighteningly near areas earmarked for logging. More than 50 of the Mashco Piro people have appeared near the Yine village of Monte Salvado, in South East Peru. Campaigners say the astonishing footage graphically illustrates the urgent need to revoke all the logging licenses in the area and recognise that the territory belongs to the Mashco Piro. Experts at campaigning group Survival International believe the tribe is the largest still left without outside contact - beyond other similar tribes - in the world. The Yine, who are not uncontacted, speak a language related to Mashco Piro. They have previously reported that the tribe angrily denounced the presence of loggers on their land.Survival Director Caroline Pearce said: “These incredible images show that very large numbers of uncontacted Mashco Piro people are living just a few miles from where loggers are poised to start operations.“Indeed one logging company, Canales Tahuamanu, is already at work inside Mashco Piro territory, which the Mashco Piro have made clear they oppose.”Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside the territory that belongs to the Mashco Piro people. The nearest is just a few miles from where the Mashco Piro were filmed.
Keywords: Amazonian tribe,Mashco Piro,uncontacted tribe,logging,Monte Salvado,South East Peru,Survival International,indigenous rights,environmental protection,Peru Forest Stewardship Council,deforestation,humanitarian disaster,territorial rights,timber concessions,Canales Tahuamanu,FSC certification,FENAMAD,Alfredo Vargas Pio
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