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Peru to protect isolated tribes

by Sanjay Jha | June 4, 2008 at 08:18 pm

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The Government of Peru have come to the rescue of the uncontacted tribals seen on the border of Brazil and Peru few days back. Government plans to take some new actions to let them live peacefully and avoid disturbing them. Loggers often enter deep into forest and come in contact with such groups but now efforts are being made not to go close to their habitat. Apart from the possibility of violent confrontations, encounters with outsiders are often fatal because the isolated people lack the antibodies to protect themselves from a common cold or the flu.

Authorities in Peru are to take measures to protect some of the last indigenous tribes to have avoided contact with the outside world.
They have promised to stop loggers encroaching on their land near the Brazilian border.
The announcement comes after photographs of an isolated tribe taken near the border with Peru were circulated around the world.
The unknown group of native Amazonians were armed with bows and arrows.
The images were taken by the Brazilian government from the air, and showed some members of the tribe - their bodies painted red and black - firing arrows at a photographer in an aeroplane.
The Brazilian government say they took the photos to prove that dozens of isolated tribes live in the region, on both sides of the border.
They only hunt, gather and fish, they don't farm, but they know fire
Marco Tulio Valverde
Although anthropologists were not able to name the tribe it is believed that they had travelled a short distance from neighbouring Peru.
Authorities in Peru's Amazon state of Madre de Dios now say they will stop illegal loggers who travel deep into the forest in search of tropical hardwoods.