Uncontacted indigenous tribe photographed in Brazil. |
05-30-2008, 10:19 AM
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#1 | | The Ratbastard
Kickback is abusing his powers Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 17,267 Location: Louisville, Kentucky Collection Count: None any more | Uncontacted indigenous tribe photographed in Brazil.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm
Link contains pics - it looks like they are scared to death of the plane. Quote:
One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.
The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land.
The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows.
More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says.
Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected.
'Monumental crime'
Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging.
The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Acre region.
They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera.
"We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, as saying.
"This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence."
He described the threats to such tribes and their land as "a monumental crime against the natural world" and "further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world".
Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold.
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05-30-2008, 10:24 AM
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#2 | | RAEP FACE Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,679 Location: Ma.Lay.Sia News Credits: 1 | I want to know who's the black guy there ? Or is it he/she painted him/herself into black ?  | |
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05-30-2008, 10:32 AM
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#4 | | The Oddjob Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,686 Location: North Carolina Collection Count: Alot.. | Better leave these people alone, if somebodys sick, they will die.  | |
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05-30-2008, 10:43 AM
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#5 | | he eats raw fish Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 6,079 Location: truro, ns Collection Count: 120ish | that's pretty neat. looks like the men are painted red and the women are black. it's so weird seeing these customs of people who have never seen the outside world. it would be cool to get more pictures of them without actually invading their land... maybe with a really hardcore zoom lens on a plane, then just let them be for a few years before checking on them again for an update.  | |
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05-30-2008, 11:37 AM
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#6 | | Do you know this Icon? Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,671 Location: Maryland, USA | They couldn't have done this with a satellite or a less invasive way?
Why does it feel like this plane was 30ft off the ground above these huts. 
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05-30-2008, 11:45 AM
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#7 | | Donut Connoisseur Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,484 Location: Alabama Collection Count: 100+ | ^^they prob. was only 30 feet in the air. Man can you imagine not ever seeing a plane or any form of equipment then all of a sudden that shit flies over. Would scare the hell out me. | |
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05-30-2008, 11:53 AM
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#8 | | Herald of Unicron Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,050 Location: Halifax, New Scotland, Canada Collection Count: Never counted, like 50? | Quote:
Originally Posted by nkelsch  They couldn't have done this with a satellite or a less invasive way? | I seriously doubt the US military or the NSA is going to let Brazil use their satellites for finding uncontacted tribes in the amazon.  Quote:
Originally Posted by nkelsch Why does it feel like this plane was 30ft off the ground above these huts. | Probably cause it was. These were taken by a guy hanging out the window of a bush plane. Like this one here.  | |
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05-30-2008, 12:39 PM
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#10 | | waxes chumps like candles Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 4,306 Location: Atlanta GA | Haha, Them Gods ... they be crayzee mang!  | |
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