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Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Re:Arrogance. by russotto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Smallpox, tornadoes, and starving to death are all natural and none of the are beautiful. Maybe a tornado but only when our technology makes us safe.


    If starving to death isn't beautiful, explain Hollywood and the fashion industry.
  2. Re:To be a fly on a hut wall by PPH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Spear no good. Next time, try the plasma cannon."

    --
    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. Re:To be a fly on a hut wall by coreolyn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quick shoot it down before they land and build a Wallmart.

  4. Re:To be a fly on a hut wall by noidentity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I for one would have loved to have been able to hear and understand the conversation that took place among that tribe after the helicopter passed over.

    (translated) Those bastard better blur our face before putting image on Google Street View!

  5. Re:Those pics look fake to me. Shenanigans? by mgvrolijk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That oops got you 8 points total. Cool!

  6. These guys will have the last laugh. by mungmaster2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They know how to live without technology, which is more than one can say about the rest of us. They'll bury us.