Monday, June 2, 2008

Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 30, @10:47AM
from the bring-down-big-metal-bird dept.
ManicMechanic and other readers sent in news of a tribe of aboriginal people from the border of Peru and Brazil that has been photographed by helicopter for the first time. The images show huts in a village and people in red body paint shooting arrows at the helicopter. The outfit that released the photos, Survival International, works to end illegal logging in the rainforest in order to protect the uncontacted tribes living there. They estimate that 100 uncontacted groups exist worldwide, about half of them in the Amazon basin.

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