Media kit: One year on: World's most threatened uncontacted tribes

One year after photos of uncontacted Amazon Indians made headlines around the world, a new report from Survival International reveals the five uncontacted tribes most at risk of extinction.

Relevant links

Map of some of the world’s uncontacted tribes (click for large .pdf)

Video clips

An abandoned communal house built by uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians, Paraguay. (640×360 MPEG4house.mp4 – please contact us for broadcast format)_

Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man Porai, standing in front of cleared Chaco forest, Paraguay, speaks of their need to protect their forest for their uncontacted relatives, Paraguay. (640×360 MPEG4ojnai_desmonte_01.mp4 – please contact us for broadcast format)_

Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man Ojnai, standing in front of cleared Chaco forest, Paraguay, speaks of his sister still living uncontacted in the forest. (640×360 MPEG4ojnai_desmonte_02.mp4 – please contact us for broadcast format)_

Jorge, a Murunahua man from south-east Peru, speaks of first contact with loggers, and the ensuing disease. (640×360 MPEG4 – please contact us for broadcast format)

Extraordinary footage of the first contact with Korubo Indians of Brazil in 1996. (640×360 MPEG4 – please contact us for broadcast format)

Images

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Photo of the uncontacted tribe photographed last year in the Brazilian Amazon, near the Peruvian border.

Hastily abandoned house of the Rio Pardo Indians, Brazil.

Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group the moment they were contacted for the first time, in 2004.

Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004.

FUNAI official José Carlos Meirelles holds arrows belonging to uncontacted Indians, Brazil.

Crossed spears found on a path in northern Peru, in the region where oil company Perenco is working. Crossed spears are a common sign used by uncontacted Indians to warn outsiders to stay away.

Media kit: One year on: World's most threatened uncontacted tribes

Relevant links

Map of some of the world’s uncontacted tribes (click for large .pdf)

Video clips

Images

Photo of the uncontacted tribe photographed last year in the Brazilian Amazon, near the Peruvian border.

Photo of the uncontacted tribe photographed last year in the Brazilian Amazon, near the Peruvian border.

Hastily abandoned house of the Rio Pardo Indians, Brazil.

Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group the moment they were contacted for the first time, in 2004.

Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004.

FUNAI official José Carlos Meirelles holds arrows belonging to uncontacted Indians, Brazil.

Crossed spears found on a path in northern Peru, in the region where oil company Perenco is working. Crossed spears are a common sign used by uncontacted Indians to warn outsiders to stay away.

Uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians spotted from the air, S.E.Peru, 2007.

Uncontacted Indians’ fishing shelters spotted on river bank, S.E. Peru, 2008.

Uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indian woman spotted from the air, S.E.Peru, 2007.

Satellite photo reveals illegal deforestation (circled) by Brazilian ranchers inside Totobiegosode territory, Paraguay.

Awá men travel down a road cut by loggers.

Awá men hunting in the forest.