Indigenous man returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest

FRANCE 24 English

Visit our website: http://www.france24.com  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/France24_en

Transcript

00:00A rare encounter captured on video.

00:05Deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, a young man from an uncontacted indigenous tribe emerges

00:10from the forest and makes contact with a local community. Barefoot and wearing only a loincloth,

00:17he's carrying two logs. Locals think he was asking for fire and one resident tried,

00:23without success, to show him how to use a lighter.

00:26The encounter happened in the community of Bela Rosa, along the river Purus, a tributary of the

00:31Amazon River. He returned to his tribe in under 24 hours after it was confirmed that he hadn't

00:36been exposed to any diseases. According to Survival International, an NGO fighting for

00:43the rights of indigenous groups, some 1.7 million indigenous people live in Brazil.

00:48Over 100 uncontacted tribes are also thought to live in Brazil, more than anywhere else on

00:54the planet. And in the Peruvian Amazon, last year, these images showed indigenous tribes only

01:00a few kilometres away from a forest concession. Tribes like these are increasingly under threat

01:06in the face of advancing loggers and ranchers. They're also particularly vulnerable to diseases,

01:12such as flu, to which they have no immunity.

Category

Transcript

Recommended