“It’s a severe danger.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Temporary houses built by the “Mashco-Piro”, one of numerous indigenous peoples living in “isolation” in the south-east Peruvian Amazon. Several civil society organisations wrote to congressman Ushñahua in October urging him to “reconsider” the proposed law. Over the last few 100 years in the Amazon, indigenous peoples entering into sustained contact with “outsiders” have been repeatedly decimated by diseases. It is also home to indigenous peoples in “isolation”, including the “Mashco-Piro”, who have attracted increasing media attention in recent years. Since 2005 several attempts have been made - and foiled - to legally declare that a Purus highway should be built.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2017 13:13 UTC