Success - Peru takes action for the Mashco-Piro!
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- Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 09:30
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Peruvian officials have finally listened and responded to your urgent call to stop missionaries and tourists from making contact with vulnerable Mashco-Piro Indians in the Amazon. Survival sent the government video footage showing missionaries making contact with the tribe, and giving them clothes and food. But the Mascho-Piro could be wiped out by diseases brought in by the outsiders to which they have no resistance. One missionary (pictured above) saw fit to put a child’s life in danger for the sake of a “selfie.”
The situation had reached a crisis point, but with the added pressure of your thousands of emails, the government launched an investigation, and a permanent post has now been set up to prevent outsiders from making contact with the tribe.
Since the 1990s, we have been doing everything we can to secure the Mashco-Piro’s land. Our international lobbying already saw US oil giant Mobil pull out of the tribe’s rainforest territory and this new development is another important milestone for our campaign.
This is the second recent victory for Peruvian tribes. On Earlier this month, Ashéninka Indians were given the title to their ancestral lands, exactly one year after the murders of four of their prominent leaders.
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