Rare images show Amazon's Mashco Piro tribe as logging threatens their uncontacted community

Rare photos have emerged of members from an uncontacted tribe in the Peruvian Amazon , with advocates warning that the group is "dangerously close" to logging areas.

The images were shared by advocacy group Survival International, showing the Mashco Piro tribe searching for food near the Monte Salvado community.

Advocates claim the Mascho Piro is the "largest uncontacted tribe in the world." Survival International argues that the photos highlight an "urgent need to revoke all the logging licenses in the area, and recognize that the territory belongs to the Mashco Piro people."

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"This is a humanitarian disaster in the making it's absolutely vital that the loggers are thrown out, and the Mashco Piro's territory is properly protected at last," said Survival International Director Caroline Pearce. Several logging companies currently hold timber concessions within the tribe's inhabited territory.

Survival International revealed that one company, Canales Tahuamanu, has constructed over 150 miles of roads for its logging trucks to extract timber. Alfredo Vargas Pio, President of the local Indigenous organization FENAMAD, expressed concerns about potential conflict between logging workers and tribal members, as well as the risk of loggers introducing dangerous diseases.

"This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect, but actually sold off to logging companies," he stated.

"The logging workers could bring in new diseases which would wipe out the Mashco Piro. "There's also a risk of violence on either side, so it's very important that the territorial rights of the Mashco Piro are recognized and protected in law. ".