Survival International has released amazing photographs of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon in Brazil.
Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world.
Taken from a small airplane, the photos show men outside thatched communal huts, necks craned upward, pointing bows toward the air in a remote corner of the Amazonian rainforest.
The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, published the photos Thursday on its Web site. It tracks “uncontacted tribes” — indigenous groups that are thought to have had no contact with outsiders — and seeks to protect them from encroachment.
More than 100 uncontacted tribes remain worldwide, and about half live in the remote reaches of the Amazonian rainforest in Peru or Brazil, near the recently photographed tribe, according to Survival International, a nonprofit group that advocates for the rights of indigenous people.
“All are in grave danger of being forced off their land, killed or decimated by new diseases,” the organization said Thursday.
Source: Uncontacted tribe’ sighted in Amazon
Some news sources report the uncontacted tribe are Envira Indians. Finding “uncontacted tribes” in the Amazon begs the question. Should they be contacted? Should they be protected from contact?
Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining “lost” tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.
The bow-and-arrow wielding Indians in the pictures released on Thursday are likely the remnants of a larger tribe who were forced deeper into the forest by encroaching settlement, experts said.
Rather than being “lost”, they have likely had plenty of contact with other indigenous groups over the years, said Thomas Lovejoy, an Amazon expert who is president of The Heinz Center in Washington.
“I think there is an ethical question whether you can in the end keep them from any contact and I think the answer to that is no,” Lovejoy said.
“The right answer is to have the kind of contact and change that the tribes themselves manage the pace of it.”
Good find, these PICs, Shallow Nation, and as for the question about whether or not what remains of uncontacted tribes, I believe the only right answer is ‘NO!’ Every time the damn Euro-ised West or simply all Europeans, in Europe and those in the Americas, contact primitive living tribes it always turns out very badly for these tribes. They have absolutely NO need of us; except for us to stay away!
Let’s say that individuals, like you or I, f.e., went trekking in such places and encountered such people, this’d be okay only as long as we did not disclose knowing about these so-far unheard of or uncontacted peoples, much less disclosing their locations.
If they now become attacked or targeted by our elites and govts, then we all have a duty to oppose this to the very best of our abilities; but they otherwise should be truly respected and not visited at all by our schmuck elites and govts, who never bear good for anyone and only want everyone else’s natural resources.
Desertification in some African countries seriously accelerated with the West’s businesses producing heavy-duty farming machinery and “helping” the Africans who did well enough before to destroy forests on mountains and hills, causing all of the rich, fertile soils to be eroded away, away, …, so the deserts spread further with the forest protection removed.
They do not need us, except needing us to stay out; Western big corp. and elites anyway.
So I say ‘NO!’.