Isolated Amazonian Tribe Reaches Out For Help

[Judi Lynn]

Source: International Business Times

Isolated Amazonian Tribe Reaches Out For Help
By Jayalakshmi K
July 13, 2014 09:25 BST

After a gap of 20 years, an isolated Amazonian tribe has made contact with Brazilian scientists, according to an announcement from the country's Indian affairs department (FUNAI). Emerging from the dense rainforests along the Upper Envira river, the group contacted the officials, who were in the area following complaints from local villagers about fearful strangers raiding their crops and tools.

The officials suspect the present tribe fled illegal loggers some 186 miles away in Peru. The loggers may have driven away the animals the tribe hunted, forcing them to migrate. According to Science Now, there are at least 70 isolated tribes in the Brazilian Amazon and more outside.

Anthropologists are concerned for the group's welfare as such isolated tribes have been known to succumb to diseases like flu and whooping cough their body is not protected against. Between 1983 and 1985, almost half of another population was wiped out owing to illnesses contracted from loggers.

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The Camisea gas project, being carried out by three major companies from Argentina, the US and Spain, will involve detonating thousands of explosive charges, drilling exploratory wells and importing hundreds of workers into an area where these tribes now live in isolation.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isolated-amazonian-tribe-reaches-out-help-1456452

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(My emphasis.)

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Tragic. eom

[L0oniX]

2. Destruction of the planet in the name of energy and profit.

[olddad56]

5. Really, and this nation leads the way. As a nation, we just can't fuck the world up fast enough.

I used to have this awesome next door neighbor. He lived independently until he passed away at age 95. He told me that he never really paid attention to politics and just voted the way his wife told him to. Until she died and George W. Bush arrived on the national scene. He then started to pay attention. He told me over and over when Bush was running for president that "if he is elected, he will destroy the world." I believed him then and I believe him now. God rest his soul.

[jwirr]

3. Sad. I read it looking for what it was that we considered more important than human life. Thanks

for the emphasis.

[defacto7]

4. It's not a sign of the times

it's a sign of our primitive ignorance.

They loose everything that makes them natural human beings with a unique culture. What do they get in return, if they physically survive? I think most of us know the basic answer to that.

Rec'd with sadness.

[olddad56]

6. we are all related, they are just leading the way into extinction.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.