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ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | New images of remote Brazil tribe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12325690
Panoan Indians. The group appears to be healthy and thriving
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New pictures have been released of an isolated tribe living in rainforest on the Brazil-Peru border.
Brazil monitors many such tribes from the air, and they are known as "uncontacted" because they have only limited contact dealings with the outside world.
Photographs of the same tribe were released to the world two years ago.
Campaigners say the Panoan Indians are threatened by a rise in illegal logging on the Peruvian side of the border.
But Brazilian authorities believe the influx of loggers is pushing isolated Indians from Peru into Brazil, where the two groups could come into conflict.
Survival International, the campaign group that released the pictures, says the group is likely to be in good health, with baskets full of manioc and papaya vegetables grown in their communal "gardens".
The tribe in question could be descended from indigenous people who fled the "rubber boom" around a century ago, when wild rubber became an international commodity and forest areas were opened up.
Communal garden (Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival) The tribe has a communal garden where banana and annatto trees grow
These pictures were taken by Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, which monitors the indigenous groups using aircraft. The remote tribe has also been filmed by the BBC for its Human Planet series.
Members of the tribe are seen covered in red paint (known as urucum), which is made from seeds from the annatto shrub. Indigenous people use it to colour hammocks and baskets, as well as their skin.
The group is also seen using steel machetes - which must ultimately have been obtained from outside the forest. Fiona Watson, field and research director for Survival International, said the people are likely to have acquired these through trading links with other forest tribes.
"These networks have been in existence for centuries and I don't think they will have had any contact with non-tribal people, because if they had, the chances of being killed or contracting a disease to which they have no immunity are very high," said Ms Watson.
Ms Watson added that some authorities denied the existence of such tribal groups in the forest, in order to further their aims. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Mashco-Piro 'uncontacted' Peruvian tribe pictured
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16816816
Diego Cortijo used a telescope to get close-up images from a distance of 120m
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Chance encounters near an isolated Amazon tribe have resulted in the most detailed pictures ever taken of them.
Campaign group Survival International has released images of the Mashco-Piro tribe, which lives near the Manu National Park in southeastern Peru.
The tribe has had little if any peaceful contact with the outside world, but sightings are on the rise.
Survival blames the change on gas and oil projects and illegal logging in the area, pushing the tribe into new lands.
The message that the Mashco-Piro tribe seems to be sending, however, is that they want to be left alone.
"There's been increasing conflict and violence against outsiders that are on their ancestral land," Survival's Peru campaigner Rebecca Spooner told BBC News.
That violence has included arrows being fired at tourists in passing boats, and a warning arrow - with no tip - being recently fired at a Manu park ranger.
Most recently, members of the tribe fired a lethal arrow at Nicolas "Shaco" Flores - a member of a different tribe who had been attempting to make formal contact with the Mashco-Piro for some two decades.
An account of the attack by anthropologist Glenn Shepard underlines the fact that the tribe is fearful of forming ties with the world around them.
So it was at a respectful distance of 120m that Spanish archaeologist Diego Cortijo snapped pictures of the tribe using a telescope mounted on a camera, capturing the most detailed images ever taken of such "uncontacted" tribes, many of whom are detailed at a site of the same name.
Ms Spooner suggested that the evident increase in violence could be abated by preserving the local tribes' traditional lands.
"We're asking the Peruvian government to do more to protect that land, which should be set aside for the uncontacted groups," she said.
Gabriella Galli spotted the tribe on a riverbank in August 2011 |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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The massacre that never was.
| Quote: | Yanomami 'massacre' report dropped by Survival International
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19556792
Members of the community told reporters there had been no killings
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Campaign group Survival International, which had urged Venezuela to investigate reports of a massacre of Yanomami people in the Amazon, says it now believes no attack took place.
Survival reached this view after speaking to its own sources, the group said.
Reports emerged in August that illegal gold miners had killed up to 80 people.
Venezuelan officials said a team sent to the area had found no bodies and no evidence of an attack.
The attack was alleged to have happened in the remote Irotatheri community, close to the border with Brazil.
The remote community lies deep in the Amazon rainforest
Survival carried reports from Yanomami organisations which described how illegal gold miners had set fire to a communal house, and how witnesses said they had found burnt bodies.
There were said to be three survivors.
On Monday, Survival International said this account did not appear to be correct.
"Having received its own testimony from confidential sources, Survival now believes there was no attack by miners on the Yanomami community of Irotatheri," said a statement from Stephen Corry, Survival International's director.
Tensions
Yanomami in the area, where many illegal gold miners are operating, had heard stories of a killing in July and this was reported, by some, as having happened in Irotatheri, Mr Corry said.
"We currently do not known whether or not these stories were sparked by a violent incident, which is the most likely explanation, but tension remains high in the area."
Life appeared to be continuing as normal, the visiting reporters said
The Venezuelan government said teams sent to investigate the reports had found no evidence of an attack.
Indigenous rights campaigners said the Venezuelan officials might have failed to find the community in question, which is based in a remote jungle location.
Journalists were then taken to the area on Friday and Saturday, where Yanomami villagers said there had been no violence.
"No-one's killed anyone," a Yanomami man said through a translator. "Here we are all fine."
Gold market
The Yanomami number an estimated 30,000, with their communities spanning the Venezuela-Brazil border area.
They have been resisting encroachment by gold miners for decades, accusing them of destroying the rainforest and introducing diseases.
In recent years the soaring price of gold on world markets has driven a surge in unlicensed gold-mining in many parts of the Amazon.
Survival called on the Venezuelan authorities to do more to evict miners from Yanomami land.
Military officials sent to the Irotatheri village said they had not found signs of mining activity in the area. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Quote: | Peru's isolated Mashco-Piro tribe 'asks for food'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23766765
The tribe was filmed making contact with another remote community
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Members of one of the most isolated tribes on Earth have briefly emerged from the Peruvian jungle to ask for food, according to local activists.
A group from the Mashco-Piro tribe made contact with villagers, apparently sparking a tense stand-off.
The tribe, which numbers in the hundreds, has had virtually no contact with the wider world.
Campaigners say logging and urban development have diminished the area in which the tribe can live.
The Mashco-Piro are one of several tribes designated by the government as "uncontacted people".
The government forbids direct contact because the tribes' immune systems are not thought able to cope with the type of germs carried by other Peruvians.
Anthropologist Beatriz Huertas told the Associated Press news agency that the tribe could sometimes be seen migrating through the jungle during the dry season.
But it was strange to see them so close to the village across the river, she said.
"It could be they are upset by problems of others taking advantage of resources in their territories and for that reason were demanding objects and food of the population," she said.
Footage filmed late in June and released by local rainforest campaign group AIDESEP and the Fenamad federation for indigenous rights showed the tribe members crossing the river.
Saul Puerta Pena, director of AIDESEP, said the footage showed the tribe asking for bananas.
"There is a canoe sent by another remote indigenous community, which does not live in isolation, to send them food," he said.
"But the tribe cannot come into contact with the remote community still because any illness could kill them."
There are thought to be between 12,000 and 15,000 people from "uncontacted" tribes living in the jungles east of the Andes. |
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