Nomadic tribe discovered deep in the Amazonian jungle

[Conor]

A previously unknown indigenous group living in isolation has been found deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, a team of ecologists has said.

The ecologists spotted the 21 Indians near the Brazilian border as they flew overhead looking for illegal loggers.

Contact with outsiders can be fatal for isolated tribes people who have no immunity to many diseases.

Some groups have fled deep into the jungle to avoid contact with loggers and oil and gas prospectors.

The group was photographed and filmed from the air on the banks of the Las Piedras River in Peru's south-eastern Amazon region.

A government official who was on the flight said there were three palm huts on the river bank.

"We've found five other sites with this kind of shelter along the same river," Ricardo Hon told Associated Press news agency. "This group is nomadic."

He said the government had no plans to try to find the tribe again.

The steady advance of logging has forced the isolated groups, among them the Mashco-Piro and Yora tribes, deeper into Peru's jungle frontier with Brazil and Bolivia.

Indigenous leaders say tribes have suffered many deaths from diseases contracted from outsiders.

A pan-American human rights group criticised Peru's government this year for doing little to protect the groups from illegal loggers who are chopping down the mahogany-rich forests in which they live.



Sorce: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7027254.stm)

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[Xander]

I was looking at this earlier, its amazing how they manage to survive and they even get frightened by a aeroplane, im not sure about what they have been covering themselves in.

[Scarlett.]

Wow!
They probably think the Plane/Helicopter is a sort of animal!

Must be strange

[Conor]

Yeah. I read in another source they had probably mistaken it for a large bird or Evil spirit :laugh: It would seem a very interesting insight into their life if we could get close enough. Apparently it's the first outside contact they've had in over 10 000 years.

[KKBL]

i was just about to post this.all i can say is ZOMFG.but its a shame theyve been found out.i bet theres a US camrea crew on there way to Peru right now.

[Hugo]

Originally posted by KKBL
i was just about to post this.all i can say is ZOMFG.but its a shame theyve been found out.i bet theres a US camrea crew on there way to Peru right now.

I hope not. There is no need to disturb or frighten them. They probably don't even speak a language and just act like animals. It would really frighten and confuse them if anyone was to intrude on there camp place.

[Fom]

I always find talk of tribes dead weird, I personally cannot even begin to imagine never knowing what electricity is, what a building looks like or just the basic things that we take for granted.
Imagine seeing the first electric thing ever in all your life... you would be extremely scared and you would wanna destroy it, you might think its evil... or magic or something.

God just thinking about it baffles my head, hope they aren't interrupted to much, but to save their tribe they are going too have too accept some help.

[Lauren]

Originally posted by KKBL
i was just about to post this.all i can say is ZOMFG.but its a shame theyve been found out.i bet theres a US camrea crew on there way to Peru right now.

It's now considered illegal after a US crew infected and killed off a whole tribe cos one of their cameramen had a common flu.

[Loukas]

I read this in the paper the other day! It's really amazing that they have living there for generations without technology they will be fascinated by a torch let along a tv or something like that!