Posted on 06/25/2011 1:10:11 PM PDT by Candor7
The Brazilian government has confirmed the existence of about 200 unidentified tribal people in the Amazon rainforest.
Satellite pictures in January revealed this community was living near the border with Peru. A flight expedition over the area in April confirmed that they are about 200 in numbers.
Along with Survival International (Funai), an organization working for tribal people's rights worldwide, Brazilian authorities found that these people are living in three clearings in the Javari Valley in the western Amazon.
According to Fabricio Amorim, who led Funai’s overflight expedition, illegal fishing, hunting, logging, mining, cattle ranching, missionary actions, drug trafficking and oil exploration on the Peru-Brazil border area are the main threats to the well-being of this community and their dwellings.
Brazil follows a policy not to contact these people, instead monitor their land so that they can live without any risk.
The community and its four straw-roofed huts were spotted in the Javari Valley, which is believed to be hiding around 2000 uncontacted tribes in the world.
Survival International has released the first, clear pictures of this ancient Amazonian tribe, who grow crops, peanuts, bananas, corns and more.
Have a look ( photos of white huts only at link)
In one of the photos a person appears walking beside the largest hut. He/she appears to be wearing a canvas jacket.
Leave them alone...
Leave them alone...
Do we still have any of those small pox trade blankets left?
Could we get the government to put Texas on the ‘uncontacted tribes’ so they would leave us alone?
I was told by a real Apache in NM that when the camp ground got too messy , animal bones, guts, poop etc, that the tribe just moved to a clean spot. That makes sense because mother nature would clean the dirty spot up in a couple of seasons. Now had they been tossing out their beer cans, whiskey bottles and plastic bags it would been a mess for a long long time.;D
A couple of things...
1) Illegal fishing, hunting impacts them?? How is THEIR hunting and fishing legal?
2) "Missionary action" is a threat to their well-being??? Missionaries take them food, medicine, education. That's a harm???
These people have no resistance to outside diseases. Contact with them might kill them all, no matter who it was doing it or for what reason. .......
A lesser known threat was the Coca Cola bottle he threw out of the airplane.
Send in NATO.
Besides kidnapping mates, I think they’ve been raiding hair salons.
The gods are still crazy.
Who the Hell said there was any plight?
"Diversity" gone nuts. Liberals (who supposedly care so much) look on these people as if they were socially active gorillas or monkeys.
Just one more form of left-wing racism: Value the culture, devalue the individual people.
But they probably have a life expectancy of <40 years as it is.
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Now THAT is funny! My husband had to come over to see what I was laughing about.
We don’t know that. They might have a life as long as 50 or 60........
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