“In another incident, another group, consisting of 17 people, appeared near the neighboring village of Puerto Nuevo,” according to officials. “The Yine, who have not gone uncontacted, speak a language related to Mashco Piro; the Mashco Piro have been known to express anger towards loggers on their land.”

Survival International activists believe that this is a clear example of the “urgent need to revoke all the logging licenses in the area, and recognize that the territory belongs to the Mashco Piro people.” Survival International is the largest uncontacted tribe in the world.

Several logging corporations own wood concessions, which are regions managed outside of official laws and used for resource exploitation, within the Mashco Piro people’s land in Peru. The Mashco Piro filming location is just a few miles away from the nearest logging area.