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Five “uncontacted Tribes” Most Threatened With Extinction (photos) by Swaggot00(m): 6:16am On Jun 28, 2013 |
Uncontacted tribes were in the world spotlight exactly one year ago when photos were released showing Indians, deep in the Brazilian Amazon, aiming bows and arrows at a government aircraft circling overhead. “The photos made headlines around the world and threw uncontacted tribes into the international spotlight, provoking public outrage at the threats to their land, livelihoods and lives,” said Survival , an itinternational indigenous-rights group based in the UK. “In spite of this, however, uncontacted tribes around the world are facing extinction,” the British-based organization said in a report, “Uncontacted Tribes Face Extinction,” published on the anniversary of last year’s photos. “Governments, companies and others ignore their rights, and invade and destroy their land with impunity. The report exposes the plight of the world’s most threatened uncontacted tribes. They live in five locations in three South American countries: Paraguay, Brazil and Peru. They are just a few of the more than 100 uncontacted tribes known to exist worldwide, in South America, the Indian Ocean, and on the island of New Guinea, Survival said. “Uncontacted tribes face two principal threats to their survival,” the report says. “By far the greatest is their lack of immunity to common Western diseases such as influenza, chicken pox, measles, and a host of respiratory diseases. “Even where ‘first contact’ between an isolated tribe and outsiders is carefully managed, it is common for significant numbers of tribespeople to die in the months following contact. “Where such encounters are not managed, with medical plans in place, the entire tribe, or a large proportion of it, can be wiped out.” Such catastrophes have occurred repeatedly in the Amazon, and not just in the distant past: in 1996, for example, at least half the Murunahua Indians died after they were contacted by illegal mahogany loggers, according to Survival. The other key threat is simply violence: in several of the cases outlined in the report the tribespeople face gangs of heavily-armed loggers who are likely to shoot them on sight, Survival said. The five most threatened uncontacted tribes are: -Indians of the Pardo River,Brazil -The Awá, Brazil -Indians between the Napo,Peru -Indians of the Envira River, Peru -The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, Paraguay . “These groups are all experiencing the invasion of their lands–by loggers, ranchers, colonists and oil companies–and all are at grave risk of being decimated by diseases to which they have no immunity,” Survival said in a news release announcing the report. |
Re: Five “uncontacted Tribes” Most Threatened With Extinction (photos) by Swaggot00(m): 6:24am On Jun 28, 2013 |
Photo 1 -Photo of the uncontacted tribe photographed last year in the Brazilian Amazon, near the Peruvian border. Photo 2 and 3 -Members of theParaguayan Ayoreo- Totobiegosode group the moment they were contacted for the first time, in 2004. Photo 4 -Uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indian woman spotted from the air, S.E.Peru, 2007. (Photo credit) - Gleison Miranda,Heinz Plenge Pardo,Frankfurt Zoological Society,GAT/Survival. Source - http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/
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