The 'Mashco-Piro' are one of an estimated fifteen indigenous groups in Peru living without any regular contact with outsiders…During the 'Rubber Boom' in the late 19th and early 20th centuries scores of people poured into the Amazon to source rubber...The treatment of the local indigenous people was horrific...Since the horrors of the 'Rubber Boom' there has been persistent pressure on the 'Mashco-Piro's' land: more rubber tappers, drugs traffickers, oil companies, fishermen, and thousands of loggers...One of the oil companies was Mobil [part of ExxonMobil], which explored in the region in the 1990s. Another was the Chinese state company Sapet, which agreed in 2006 not to enter a reserve established for the 'Mashco-Piro' after protests by local indigenous organisation FENAMAD...Peru's government took a major step last year by passing a law guaranteeing indigenous people the right to be consulted… [also refers to Hunt]