Survival International is an organization that campaigns for the land- and human rights of tribal peoples around the world. They attempt to bring attention to the activities that put these vulnerable people in danger. In this clip narrated by Gillian Anderson, BBC cameras were allowed on-board a Brazilian government plane to capture footage of one of the last few uncontacted tribes of people in the world. By “uncontacted”, they don’t mean the tribe hasn’t come into contact with other people. While they meet an trade with their neighbours, they just haven’t seen ones with magical iPads, Android phones, and clothes made from spandex. The tribe in question lives in a reserve set up especially to protect them from greedy loggers and miners. I can imagine there are other tribes who aren’t as fortunate.
Survival International rely on support from the public for their operations. See more about their initiatives at www.uncontactedtribes.org.
[via News From the Westside]
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Saw this a while ago. (last week) the only thing, is what are they thinking when they see a huge plane fly past… surely that is contact? and what will it do to their culture? some terrible, huge bird, that make a noise is circling us, and going to eat our children… hmm….
The Peruvian government need to traet that land as a national treasure.
Lets hope “civilised” man doesnt get involved and lead them astray.
Apparently quite a few non-governmental organizations have asked the Peruvian officials to act on illegal logging but nothing has been done about it. I would assume there is big money involved. Survival International is also concerned about illegal logging displacing tribal Indians from Peru and about those people fleeing to Brazil and causing a rucus with the indigenous tribe.