Brazil: First photos of uncontacted tribe deep in the Amazon

01.02.11

Some extraordinary photos surfaced recently of an uncontacted tribe deep in the Brazilian Amazon near the border with Peru. The remarkable, thriving, community were seen with painted in Annatto, with plentiful baskets of food, and a healthy community garden.

All the photographs were taken by Brazil's Indian Affair's Department, which authorised Survival International to use them as part of its campaign to protect their territory. For those reading this in the UK the tribe will be featured on the landmark BBC 1 Human Planet series on Thursday 3 Feb, 2011.

photograph of native people in village in brazil from the air

As the hidden villagers look up at the passing aircraft the photograph shows a thriving community with brimming baskets of papaya and manioc on the ground.

photograph of people in forest from far away

The tribe's survival is, apparently, seriously threatened by invading loggers from the Peruvian border.

photograph of man covered in red dye in amazonian forest garden

This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the community's garden, surrounded by banana plants and annatto trees.

15.11.10

Survival International’s film ‘Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain’ has won the award for ‘Best Short’ in the category of International Human Rights at the Artivist Film Festival to be held in Hollywood.

India: Sacred mountain still under threat

12.03.10

The sacred mountain at the heart of the Dongria Kondh people's culture remains under threat after a British Government investigation.

India: The Avatar complex

08.02.10

James Cameron's blockbuster 3D epic about a distant world being bulldozed by mineral prospectors has resonated around the environmental and social rights communities. This has not been lost on campaign groups who have seized the chance to get their story out to a primed global audience.

Philippines: Geo-tagging reveals mining threats on the “Last frontier”

01.02.10

Plant Talk invited Dario Novellino from the Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD), UK to speak out against the logging and mining in protected areas that is destroying the forests of Palawan.

Ecuador: Yasuni - the most biodiverse place on Earth?

22.01.10

A study published in the open access journal Plos One has revealed extraordinary species richness in the western Amazon covering eastern Ecuador and northern Peru.