Uncontacted tribe filmed on Brazil-Peru border - 30 May 08

Paul Allen reports on one of the world's last remaining uncontacted tribes.

Brazil's government has released pictures of a previously unseen community of people living in the Amazonian rainforest.

It is believed they have never had previous contact with the outside world.

They were located on the border between Brazil and Peru.

The footage was taken from the air by Funai, a Brazilian government foundation, dedicated to the protection of indigenous tribes.

Funai has a policy to not contact tribes similar to this one, and instead try to prevent invasions of their land so they remain autonomous.

But the agency warns the tribe, and others like it believed to be living in the Amazon, that they are at risk from illegal logging.

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[nosuchpersonvideo]

They've survived for thousands of years by the ways they know how. There's nothing we can or should do to "help" them. They are fine. In fact, they might be able to help us! If something ever happened to the fabric of modern society, the masses would be helpless and starve to death not knowing how to do anything other than order into a drive thru or press a button on a microwave. And we've seen all the Americas, Africa, and Australia what our modern "help" does to indigenous people. Let 'em be.

[sasman50]

@LoneCuetlachtli BRASILIAN NOT INDIAN INDIANS are INDIANS NAtives americans are native americans! My grandad was born into a tribe and his family were all native brasilians.

[DavieDave59]

@ka7hy European standards?

[ka7hy]

@DavieDave59 You don't get it because you are too stupid. Not because they don't fit your European standards they live bad.

Use your brain, plz?

[ka7hy]

@DavieDave59 Actually, Kuwait has a higher standard of living than the USA. But, oh, sorry, I forgot Americans know nothing of the world around them.

[ka7hy]

@Raymasaki Are you out of your mind? They don't need vaccines against diseases they have never heard of . However, you or anyone else who want to "help" would transmit them all kind of diseases they had never developed defenses against just by standing near them, and THAT would cause pandemics.

[ka7hy]

@Pinesol23 Medicine? They know how to cure themselves better than many so-called doctors. And they don't need technology as they had never heard of that.

Don't be silly! Use your brain, please!

[ka7hy]

@DrawerWorthy Shut up, animal!

[mythicalballz]

@jojo808 christians r bad