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Members of an “uncontacted” Indigenous group used bows and arrows to attack loggers in the Peruvian Amazon in a confrontation that left at least one person injured, according to a local Indigenous organisation.

The incident came just weeks after more than 50 men and boys from the isolated group known as the Mashco Piro made a rare appearance on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon.

Campaigners warn that the Mashco Piro are under siege from logging activity – both illegal and legal – and the latest clashes are likely to increase calls for the government to finally demarcate their ancestral territory after years of conflict.

“This is a permanent emergency,” said Teresa Mayo, Peru researcher for Survival International, an NGO that promotes Indigenous rights, which released images of the Mashco Piro last month. “It is very tense in the zone. Everyone there is afraid,” she said of the area where logging concessions border the 829,941-hectare (2m-acre) Madre de Dios territorial reserve, a protected area where the tribe lives.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“Their land is being invaded by illegal logging and drug-traffickers, so to save their lives they are spreading into other areas,” he said. “The Mashco Piro are facing genocide.”

The important part. This is literally self-defense.

Despite its controversial location, the company’s logging concession, held since 2002, is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international NGO that certifies that timber extraction is sustainable and ethical.

Of course. It's the "Forest Slayer Clowns".

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

I’m woefully ignorant of this issue. Can you tell me more about the FSC and what’s going on in the Amazon? Or direct me to any good resources? It’s one of those subjects I feel like I should know more about.

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

The FSC is one of those greenwashing certification organizations.

https://news.mongabay.com/?s=FSC

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago
[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All ya gotta do is buy some carbon credits and that rainforest was asking for the ecocide, all nice and legal like...

That un-contacted tribe? Terrorists!

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

"Carbon credits" i just can't even 🙂‍↔️ what's the fucking logic? Give us lots of money and we'll make the pollution you created cease to exist?

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

More like uncivilized

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