New tribe of people spotted for the first time in Amazon

A tribe of people who've never had contact with the outside world have been found living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, authorities have confirmed. The discovery was made after the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI, carried out a overflight of three clearings in the Javari Valley in the western Amazon.

Close to the border with Peru, the site is thought to be home to a tribe of 200 people who were seen growing corn, bananas, peanuts and other crops.

FUNAI will not try to contact the Indians, but rather monitor their land so that they can live there undisturbed and try to fend off loggers and drug traffickers.

Fabricio Amorim, the leader of FUNAI’s overflight expedition, said: "Among the main threats to the well-being of these groups are illegal fishing, hunting, logging, mining, cattle ranching, missionary actions… and drug trafficking".

The Javari Valley is said to be home to the highest concentration of uncontacted tribes in the world; with around 2,000 uncontacted Indians thought to live there.


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