Earlier this week we published photos of an uncontacted Amazon Indian tribe living close to the border between Brazil and Peru. Now, film footage of the same tribe has been shown on the BBC's Human Planet series.
Survival International, the NGO that released the photos, says that the tribe's survival is in jeopardy due to illegal logging in the area where they live.
Following the publication of the photos, the Peruvian government has acknowledged for the first time the threat posed to the tribe.
In a statement released on Feb. 2nd, Peru's Foreign Ministry announced that they will "establish contact with Brazil's FUNAI institute [Indian Affairs Department]… to preserve these peoples and avoid the incursion of illegal loggers and the depredation of the Amazon."
According to John Vidal of The Guardian, "The change has been remarkable. Only two years ago, Peruvian president, Alan Garcia, queried the existence of any uncontacted groups of Indians anywhere in Peruvian forests."
Survival International has a series of questions and answers that explain how they define uncontacted tribes.
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You are kidding me. This is a place just outside of Hilo, Hi a place called Puna.
They should drop a few cases of beer for the super bowl party . Then fly back over later and film it now that would be interesting to watch.
There are plenty of places in the World where you can go and live primatively if you no longer find modernarity of any use to you. Just go and do it. Alot of people do fine just by moving to Alaska. Good enough.
Also, keep in mind contact with these tribes can be a two way prospect. They may have much to teach as well learn. They may have also contracted and become immune to diseases we have no defense againsts as well as the other way around. One could argue contact has already happened. What do you think was going through their minds when they looked up at the aircraft flying overhead? What do you think they took back with them and talked about around the camp fires? They have already been changed and there is no going back.
The one on the left looks a lot like Obama.
Don't worry guys.. I plan to put on some shorts and boots.. and with a baseball cap go make contact with them.. marry their most beautiful young daughter. I'll take my laptop and tell them of the wonders found in the rest of the world.
Also remember that if we make contact with them they will be wiped out by our diseases for which they have no immunity. Don't worry! A missionary group will now go into the jungle to bring them Christianity. It sure has worked out well for us in the civilized world. Why it has been years now since the latest blood bath in western Europe among civilized Christians.
I will pray that these "uncontacted" people will be left alone. I pray that this man and his goal will be reached to protect them. I am in awe that there are still people who are "uncontacted". I wonder how old they are? How long their history goes back? Amazing!
Oh no! Now the Christian Taliban will come!
Anyone remember the Tasaday?
Beautiful footage ! I hope they can be left alone, but somehow I fear that in a year they will be on Facebook and Twitter.
Unfortunatly contact has already be made. Just the mere fact of planes circling overhead is an intrusion into there world. If you truly want to save these remaining tribes, I would suggest having a restricted airspace with no traffic whatsoever. And a national boundary within miles of there reach. And if you want to study these last truly free people. I would use a (one) individual indigenous to the area to infiltrate the tribe to study them without bringing any supplies or any other implement from the outside word. Or even try to change the way they do things. A study like this would take years to do. But would let them live there lives as possibly the only undisturbed tribe in the world. Unfortunately I thing there existance already has been compromised, and is in jeopardy.
Who cares, I would rather have some nice teak on my boat than worry about a couple of pygmy indians hiding out like a bunch of hermits, this is a gene pool we really do not want to perpetuate.
HOAX
At last we've found Camelot, now let's just leave it alone......Ribbit.
For those interested in learning more about everyday indigenous life in the Peruvian Amazon, please visit www.ninosdelaamazonia.org You will see amazing photos, all of them taken by the indigenous children who live there. It is a unique, intimate perspective and a true document of their realities. Thank you.
I still think it is a hoax...
why don't we just leave them alone there no point in killing off anthor culture off they been left alone most likely thosands of years. im mean fine do checck up on and protect them from invaders and poachers but dont make contact with them. there one of the last tribe that haven't been contacted by us so lets leave it that way. un less they want to!!!!
For those interested in learning more about everyday life in the Peruvian Amazon, please visit www.ninosdelaamazonia.org You will see amazing photos, all of them taken by the indigenous children who live there. It is a unique, intimate perspective and a true document of their realities. Thank you.
I continue to ponder what has happened to mankind that we could ever think it's okay to interfere with these natives. We have no rights there whatsoever ... none. They lead a life we cannot even imagine. They are healthy because they live off the land. They have maintained their culture without radios, cameras, computers, fast food, music, fancy clothes, nasty neighbors, bombs, wars, famine, slavery or holocaust; while the rest of us have let our original cultures drift off into virtual madness. These tribes do not need our interference in any way. shape form or fashion. They have their own ideals, religion, laws and every single one of them has responsibilities and rewards for their labors. They have survived well. We civilized folks cannot return to a life of naturalism no more than they need to become civilized. We would not survive, and neither will they. Thus, in the final analysis "THEY SHOULD BE LEFT ALONE"
Tribes who are aware of an outside world and choose to turn their backs on it should be left alone. Respect their right to privacy. Their survival depends on the outside world knowing they are there and leaving them alone to. We as a whole have destroyed and ruined so much on this planet. Do something right for a change and let these people live as they choose to live, in the way they have for so many years.
It's all damage control from this point. Contact has already been made. The least intrusive interaction is probably the best. Learn from them first and let them teach you what they know. And be sure to dodge their arrows.