Uncontacted Tribe, One Of The World's Last, Threatened By Illegal Logging In Brazil (PHOTOS)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

Uncontacted Tribe, One Of The World's Last, Threatened By Illegal Logging In Brazil (PHOTOS)
The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman Posted: 01-31-11 03:05 PM

Never-before-seen images of uncontacted Brazilian Indians reveal a thriving world that may soon be destroyed. The photos were taken by Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, and Survival International presents them in an attempt to protect the Indian territory.

The tribe is currently in danger, as illegal loggers invade their land, pushing the tribe from Peru into Brazil. Last year, the Upper Amazon Conservancy found evidence of illegal logging while flying over the protected area.

As Survival's Director Stephen Corry recently said, "The illegal loggers will destroy this tribe. It's vital that the Peruvian government stop them before time runs out. The people in these photos are self-evidently healthy and thriving. What they need from us is their territory protected, so that they can make their own choices about their future. But this area is now at real risk, and if the wave of illegal logging isn't stopped fast, their future will be taken out of their hands. This isn't just a possibility: it's irrefutable history, rewritten on the graves of countless tribes for the last five centuries."

The Indians are in the 'Jungles' episode of BBC1's 'Human Planet' (Thurs 3 Feb, 8pm). Survival has launched a new website on uncontacted tribes: www.uncontactedtribes.org. For a detailed explanation of who the Indians are, and what the photos reveal, go to www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos.



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[Doremus]

1. K&R Let's hope they can save them. n/t

[L. Coyote]

2. They are always the last or one of the last, then another is found and dies or disappears

Why is it assumed the jungle is people-free?

[20score]

3. Because there isn't much forest left. And very few unexplored areas.

[L. Coyote]

4. NOT true. There are vast tracts of forest left and this mantra serves their destruction

Just use Google Earth and see for yourself

[20score]

6. Okay, I'll bite. How does acknowledging that massive amounts of forest have been destroyed

and that there is less undisturbed land than there should be, contribute to the destruction of said land?

[M155Y_A1CH]

10. You can't eat dirt

Living off the land is impossible if it has been razed naked. We also need the CO2 absorbing/oxygen creating qualities of the forests, for the rest of us.

[SkyDaddy7]

5. I am not saying they are not "un-contacted" but...

In the first picture the kid appears to be holding a metal knife or machete

[guitar man]

8. could have found it

Thank gawd it's not a coke bottle though!! :wow: :spray:

[SkyDaddy7]

9. I loved that movie!!!

[M155Y_A1CH]

11. Their claim is inter-tribal trade

with nearby tribes which have come into contact.

[semillama]

14. There's also a small metal pot on the ground

Definitely in trade contact with other contacted tribes, at least. Machetes have been and still are a valuable trade item, often brought in by missionaries.

[The abyss]

7. Nice post! That photo reminds me...

of the film version "At play in the fields of the Lord" 1991

1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen

Matthiessen's book is the better of the two. But the film 20+ years out of date is excellent!

[DeSwiss]

12. Damn.

I despair of humanity sometimes.

K&R

[xchrom]

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