Lost Brazilian Tribe Shows Up
posted in Amazing Facts |Pictures released by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) owned by the Brazilian government, reveals that a lost Brazilian tribe point their bows and arrows at an aircraft carrying photographers. It is reported that the tribesmen never exposed themselves to the outside world ever before.
Jose Carlos dos Reis Mereilles, head of FUNAI’s environmental protection which is responsible for the pictures, claimed that they were aware of the existence of the tribe in thick rainforest regions lying next to the Peruvian border since years now and that many pictures of their presence were captured on their earlier trips as well but not revealed to the public eye for scrutiny.
Jose revealed to the Brazilian newspapers that this time they revealed the sought pictures to the public in order to prove that the there were Indian people living in isolation for years around the Peruvian border. He also brought to attention the need to address the reasons why the tribe has been lying so mum in revealing their survival and presence in the region. It is also possible, he said that the tribe feared that their life would be infringed upon by intruders or meddlers from the Peruvian side.
The pictures were clicked from several FUNAI planes of the assumed inactive thatched roof village lying in a remote Brazilian state called Acre.
The Survival International, a British group which supports indigenous communities all around the globe has revealed in its website that the illegal logging (deforestation or felling of trees), farming and rising development in Peru is posing a threat to the life and existence of the newly found tribe in Brazil. Their existence could be further jeopardized by forcing other dislocated Peruvian tribes to come in contact with the newly found tribe.
Reports revealed that there were as many as 500 Indians living absolutely maroon lives on the Brazilian border.
Stephen Corry, director of Survival International asserted the need for the world to wake up to the existence of this tribe and to sort of assimilate them into the world community for survival. He expressed his concern for the need of acknowledging their fears and territories or else in no time would these tribes be made extinct.
Stephen also revealed that there were as many as 100 tribes around the globe who are living completely isolated lives even today.