The Nomole or Cujareño people, also known as the Mashco Piro, are an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest.
According to the anthropologist Glenn Shepard, who had an encounter with the Mashco-Piro in 1999, the increased sightings of the tribe could be due to illegal logging in the area and low-flying aircraft associated with oil and gas exploration.
[8] In September 2007, a group of ecologists filmed about 20 members of the Nomole tribe from a helicopter flying above the Alto Purús national park.
[14] The archaeologist Diego Cortijo of the Spanish Geographical Society claimed to have captured photographs of a Nomole family from the Manú National Park, while on an expedition along the Madre de Dios River in search of petroglyphs.
[15] His local guide Nicolas "Shaco" Flores, who was found dead six days later with a bamboo-tipped arrow stuck in his heart, is believed to have been killed by members of the Nomole tribe.
[17] In July 2024, video and images of dozens of uncontacted Nomole people, on the banks of a river a few kilometers from a series of logging concessions, were published by Survival International.