Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

[N.O.R.F]

Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7426869.stm

 

One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.

 

The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.

 

The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.

 

More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says.

 

Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected.

 

'Monumental crime'

 

Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.

 

 

 

 

What do the pictures tell us?

In pictures: Brazil tribe

 

 

The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Acre region.

 

They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera.

 

"We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, as saying.

 

"This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence."

 

He described the threats to such tribes and their land as "a monumental crime against the natural world" and "further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world".

 

Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm

[Paragon]

Lol. They are painted red and are throwing arrows at the bloody flying metal. The very flying metal that had made the Sayid take to his heels .

 

I read about this story sometime ago. Just wondered how it would feel to suddenly be exposed to the world and all its ills?

 

 

There was another documentary sometime ago on Amazon tribes hit by a flu epidemic because they immune system couldn't fight flu or common cold.

 

Masaakiintan is layska daayo weeye! Hadii kale waan,,....

[Fabregas]

Last time some peepZ got "spotted", Christopher Columbus enslaved thousands of them, took their treasures and his friends wiped out the rest!

[Cara.]

Apparently the first time the plane flew over, the tribesmen were just staring up at it, no weapons and no body paint. This is the return trip, by which time they were ready for war.

 

There's a tribe off Papua New Guinea that kills anyone who comes on to their island. Even fishermen from neighboring islands who accidentally land there.

[Malika]

LOL@"got spotted"..yeah I like the thought of discovering..e.g Livingstone discovered the victoria fall,..erm excuse me! I am sure the falls were there and locals knew of them..heh

[Fabregas]

horta who was the first Soomaali that discovered/spotted Britian? We should have made him(don't think it was a women) a national hero

 

 

Cara, yeah, some those people(Papua NG) are cannibals!yuk! Last time I heard Indonesian government ba dhagaha ka garacasey!poor folkz.

[Ms DD]

It would be nice to have been them. Never heard of Bush,never heard of ina yusuf ..aaah it could be bliss

[N.O.R.F]

Apocalypto anyone?

[Jacaylbaro]

They live in a very peaceful world than we live ....... very natural indeed.

[Som@li]

Interesting,with the paint and all, maybe they are acting, remained of the movie Krippendorf's Tribe