Rare footage of largest uncontacted tribe in the world shows 'disaster in the making'

Rare images of members of the world’s largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon – just miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine rainforest.

The photos and videos show around 50 men, women and children from the Mashco Piro tribe on a sandy bank of the remote Las Piedras river in the jungle region of Madre de Dios, near the border with Brazil.

With long hair and wearing nothing but loincloths, the elusive hunter-gatherers can clearly be seen from a distance gathering branches to build temporary shelters.

The images were released by Survival International, an indigenous rights group, which is warning that the logging is illegal and poses an existential threat to the extremely vulnerable tribe.

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[Jaded]

So weird to think there are humans alive that have no clue what is going on with the world and technology

[cleyenne]

But said COMPANY has to remain unnamed?? What kind of journalism is this? We know the tribe's name but not the oppressors.

[AmandaErrrrr]

I actually think its really cool they've been untouched by civilization & time, and they're just out there doing their thing naturally.

[peasinourthyme]

To them, these companies coming in, with their enormous machines, the sounds, the smells and the horror of seeing trees falling and leaving the world destroyed...it must all be a horror on a mythological scale. Like watching actual monsters. Mordor rising.
And in a very real sense, they are right.

[nachgeben]

Are we not going to talk about how the loggers have been slaughtering members of these uncontacted tribes, and their bodies are found floating in the Amazon? No?

[maggillaguerrilla]

Leave them alone. This tribe has made it this long without the people of the world corrupting their hearts and souls.

[iygizgl]

Brazil should stop illegal logging. The deforestation of the Amazon is affecting the amount of rainfall and is making the water levels so low that navigation on some rivers is almost impossible anymore. These people need the rivers to travel and survive.

[SofiaisSunshine]

Please leave them alone. Everybody ruins everything. Im sure they are fine the way they are.

[tomorrowbytogether]

It kinda makes me happy to see that there’re still humans that live so close to nature and unknowing of all the brainrot of civilization. I hope they keep being protected!

[lulouMerMa]

STOP LOGGING and leave these people ALONE!

[thestoik]

Soon they will be called terrorists for not letting a corporation destroy their home.

[bobbydevay]

Dear Telegraph why not say the name of the logging company? Part of your conglomerate?

[nathanjayrog]

Not a mobile phone in sight. These guys are livin' in the moment. I like it.

[itranscendencei]

We shouldn't be logging there anyway. The Amazon is way more important than people realize.

[Rose.Of.Hizaki]

Well.... For an _uncontacted tribe._ Their arrow sure made contact with the company worker.

[Waywind]

Imagine how these people would react to seeing a drone show over their camp at night.

[bekomallon]

wow so amazing that we are all living in the same world existing in the same moment but leading incredibly different lives.

[ritof-rice]

They dont even know 1 million people saw them in that river...

[adamhendrickson]

Somewhere a missionary is booking a flight and packing his suitcase 😂

[KamachoMan]

It is good to know where we come from as human beings. It is cool to know we still live along side these tribes. I hope they get left alone in peace.