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."
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Protecting uncontacted tribes are like protecting Japan and Korea and the Phillipines so they dont get our technology. Make the foreignors work for us, the Mexicans, the asians, but dont let them have our technology until we americans are all leisurely rich and dominant for our discoveries. I cannot see it as anything but this, because now that we americans have polluted our planet we are telling the rest of the world they can know the technology but they shouldnt pollute like we did to get here. So airplanes fly over them all the time, how does that make them uncontacted. So they see loggers cutting trees down closer and closer to them, how are they uncontacted if they these natives see this. It's absurd. If the mountain blew up from volcanics you wouldtn fly a helicopter in to safe them.
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