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.
Send them glocks
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
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
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.
I agree with the sentiment. But the whole guns, germs, and steel thing is what devastated tribal peoples in the first place.
Drone strike the loggers?
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.
Destroy the equipment and vehicles so cost goes up for them.
They do.
Wasn’t the problem that other people had these things and they didn’t?
Put a python in the cab of their equipment