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An NGO has released rare photographs of the Mashco Piro tribespeople, one of the world’s 100-odd uncontacted tribes.

Who are the Mashko Piro people?

The Mashco Piro tribe, possibly numbering over 750, are nomadic hunter-gatherers.
They live in the Amazon jungles of the Madre de Dios Region, near Peru’s border with Brazil and Bolivia.
Almost all uncontacted tribes, including the Mashco Piro, live in the jungles of the Amazon and Southeast Asia.
The Mashco-Piro speak a dialect of the Piro language.
The tribe is highly reclusive and only occasionally contacts the Yine people, another native group.

Logging companies has been allotted 53,000 hectares in the Madre de Dios forests to extract cedar and mahogany.
The Mashco Piro have expressed their disapproval of the logging companies through the Yine people, reporting feelings of pressure and upset due to company assaults.

The Mashco Piro’s territory was invaded during Peru’s rubber boom in the 1880s, resulting in displacement, enslavement, and mass killings.
Survivors moved further upstream on the Manu River and have lived in isolation since then.

In 2002, the Peruvian government established the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve to protect the Mashco Piro’s territory.
However, large parts of their traditional lands lie outside the reserve and have been sold as logging concessions.
The Peruvian government has forbidden all contact with the Mashco Piro to prevent the spread of diseases to which the tribe has no immunity.
As logging companies encroach on their territories, the Mashco Piro have nowhere left to go.

[2016] Consider the following pairs:

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Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

(a) 1 and 2

(b) 2 only

(d) 3 only