Link RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - One of Brazil's last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation said Thursday. The Indians were sighted in an Ethno-Environmental Protected Area along the Envira River in flights over remote Acre state, said the government foundation, known as Funai. Funai said it photographed "strong and healthy" warriors, six huts and a large planted area. But it was not known to which tribe they belonged, the group said. "Four distinct isolated peoples exist in this region, whom we have accompanied for 20 years," Funai expert Jose Carlos Meirelles Junior said in a statement. Funai does not make contact with the Indians and prevents invasions of their land, to ensure total autonomy for the isolated tribes, the foundation said. Survival International said the Indians are in danger from illegal logging in Peru, which is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated 500 uncontacted Indians now living on the Brazilian side. There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide, most of them in Brazil and Peru, the group said in a statement. "These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist," Survival director Stephen Corry said. "The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law. Otherwise, they will soon be made extinct." They're trying to shoot down the copter overhead!
Uncontacted? As in they never seen any other form of human life? If that's the case, they must of freaked out when that helicopter came hovering above...
I believed the story until I saw the pictures. They just seem really odd. First off, waht's up with their skin tone? Second off, with today's technology, why aren't the pictures zoomed in further? If you're gonna go hunting for these people and hover above them in helicopters, why wouldn't you bring a better camera?
tribe men don't look normal? you mean they don't dress in fancy clothes, wear movado watches and talk on cell phones?
maybe 10 or so years ago some people discovered a nomadic tribe in the jungles of papua new guinea who carried around this rock on their backs that they worshipped.
I made one comment about their skin tone and you post that? Sounds like you probably have an education level equivalent to these people.
seriously? you have a link to that or something? that sounds like something interesting to read about
...with bow and arrow, just to prove a point Seriously, I'm wondering what the sighting of a copter would do to their belief system
As a geneticist, I would love to analyze their blood samples and DNA. How can we be sure that this tribe has not had any contact with any other locals around this area who decided to just leave them alone? Prime Directive anyone?
