Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border

**Ynot** · 05-30-2008 04:20 PM

http://www.survival-international.org/news/3340

Members of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air near the Brazil-Peru border. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the remotest parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil’s Acre state.

‘We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,’ said uncontacted tribes expert José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior. Meirelles works for FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department. ‘This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence.’

Meirelles says that the group’s numbers are increasing. But other uncontacted groups in the region, whose homes have been photographed from the air, are in severe danger from illegal logging in Peru. Logging is driving uncontacted tribes over the border and could lead to conflict with the estimated five hundred uncontacted Indians already living on the Brazilian side.

‘What is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world,’ said Meirelles.

There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes worldwide, with more than half living in either Brazil or Peru. All are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed and decimated by new diseases. Survival has launched an urgent campaign to get their land protected, and a unique film narrated by actress Julie Christie.

Survival’s director Stephen Corry said today, ‘These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. 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.’

For further information please contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email [email protected]

**ClouD** · 05-30-2008 04:25 PM

Holy shit. That's cool. @.@

I wonder if someone would try to integrate with them...
Their seemingly shocked reaction and living facilities are amazing.
To understand their 'untainted' culture might be to step back thousands of years.

Oh, and they're orange. Oompa Loompas are real.

**psychology student** · 05-30-2008 04:31 PM

Dammit, I was thinking about creating a thread on this!

**Bonsay** · 05-30-2008 06:29 PM

Poor people. Now we'll ruin them with our technology and capitalism (

).
But seriously. Does anyone else "feel bad" about this. Imagine being in their shoes. Seeing steel birds fly above making loud noises. I wonder what they are thinking right now.
It is kind of wierd though. You would think that in the year 2008 we'd at least have discovered most of the Earths surface with our satelites and spaceships.

**AmazeO XD** · 05-30-2008 07:19 PM

Fucking tribes are going to start shooting shit down with arrows.

**dragonoverlord** · 05-30-2008 07:21 PM

I didnt know red was a color people come in. Are they wearing mud or something????

**Taosaur** · 05-30-2008 10:44 PM

A wild human sanctuary--that is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. They've got to be better off in the jungle than in a favela.

**Sornaensis** · 05-30-2008 10:46 PM

Tribes Man 1: Ah! The great <insert nonsense, creoloe-type word>! The flying monster that shall destroy us all!
Tribes Man 2: Quick, get the bows!

**Universal Mind** · 05-30-2008 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ynot

I think I see Kromoh.

**wasup** · 05-31-2008 12:54 AM

lol, the bow aiming at the planes is fucking hilarious!

**nina** · 05-31-2008 12:56 AM

lmao @ the images and responses in this thread

**Identity X** · 05-31-2008 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

I didnt know red was a color people come in. Are they wearing mud or something????

It's body paint, as is the black the woman is clad in. The photos were actually taken by a second flight several hours after the initial one. In the meantime, the tribesmen painted their bodies and prepared for war. Most of the women and children were evacuated too, although experts believe the person painted black is a woman.

**Ynot** · 05-31-2008 12:58 AM

This wasn't meant as a "look at the silly tribe's people shooting at the chopper"

These pictures are further evidence that uncontacted tribes really do exist. The world needs to wake up to this, and ensure that their territory is protected in accordance with international law

just thought I'd re-affirm
(in case anybody didn't read the blurb)

**Goldney** · 05-31-2008 01:09 AM

They look like they've been tangoed.

**nina** · 05-31-2008 01:38 AM

sorry I can't help finding this thread hilarious

**Xox** · 05-31-2008 01:39 AM

That's so cool.

**cuddleyperson** · 05-31-2008 02:54 AM

com on Indians i wanna see a head shot to the pilot!!

Use your bow and arrow skills and one hit that steel bird in the face!

Though on a serious note... GET THOSE PEOPLE A SUBWAY, MCDONALD'S, BURGER KING, ARBY'S what ever, a large frappuccino! While your at set up some fine native American Indian style casinos and bars, nice hotels, some pools, main roads, an international airport, a man made river/canal which leads from Peru to the territory, I'm talking the whole shebang! These people need capitalism at it;s finest!

On a really serious note, their life style is fucked. I mean ok we say we will leave them alone but i bet we still enter their camps to "interview" them, send people to introduce them to the rest of the world etc. If we don't then it doesn't matter, we'll have logged their land within ten years anyhow.

**Sandform** · 05-31-2008 03:06 AM

This is horrible...

I suppose there is nothing we could really do for them anyway though.

I wonder what these people think about...what their language is...wow.

**RooJ** · 05-31-2008 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by cuddleyperson

If we don't then it doesn't matter, we'll have logged their land within ten years anyhow.

Its okay, Intelligence reports they have WMD's anyway, now turn your TV back on and stop thinking already.

**Kael Seoras** · 05-31-2008 03:10 AM

I love it, they're trying to shoot the plane down!

They must be friggin' freaked out though!

**Universal Mind** · 05-31-2008 03:12 AM

Originally Posted by RooJ

Its okay, Intelligence reports they have WMD's anyway, now turn your TV back on and stop thinking already.

Do you have a link?

I think you're lying just so you can steal trees.

**ninja9578** · 05-31-2008 03:16 AM

Shh, don't tell the president, he'll give them democracy.

**Sandform** · 05-31-2008 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Shh, don't tell the president, he'll give them democracy.

You mean Bushocracy?

**RooJ** · 05-31-2008 03:32 AM

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Do you have a link?

No.. but the government said.. so its true.

**Universal Mind** · 05-31-2008 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Shh, don't tell the president, he'll give them democracy.

That depends on how many mass graves and how much permitted government rape we find.

Originally Posted by RooJ

No.. but the government said.. so its true.

Do you have a link saying the government said it?

But I hear a Republican said it after a bunch of Democrats we can just forget about for now said it first, so it's automatically not true.

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