Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
Deaths in the Amazon are bringing matters to a head
Jerson del Aguila was working for a logging company in the Peruvian rainforest when he came across a family of naked tribespeople. It was the first of two occasions in 2021 on which he would meet people from the Mashco Piro, an isolated indigenous group. He and his co-workers turned back and told a manager. But when his brother, Gean Marcos, was working in the same timber concession a year later, things turned out differently. Gean Marcos was shot with two arrows and killed.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “World’s end”
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