OK, I am not one to share awful news stories on social media, but this one got me really upset and I don't think it's well known.
The Indian government is building a huge megadevelopment on Great Nicobar island, where an uncontacted tribe called the Shompen live.
They're going to cut down huge swathes of rainforest, Survival International are calling it genocidal, and as of February 2026 it's got the green light.
Tbh I'm not keen on the article below mentioning turtles first, then the Shompen, and moving back to plants and animals, but it gives a good overview.
The Great Nicobar Island faces "certain destruction" due to Modi's massive construction projects, argues M. Rajshekhar.
Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru
Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru
A Canadian oil company is withdrawing from the territory of several uncontacted tribes in the Amazon where it had been intending to explore for oil.
The company, Pacific E&P, had previously been awarded the right to explore for oil in a large area of the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, an area of immense biodiversity which is home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere else on Earth. It began its…
Second Group of Isolated Indians Contact Outsiders Following Attacks
Second Group of Isolated Indians Contact Outsiders Following Attacks
In June of this year seven members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe living in Peru had voluntarily made contactwith another group in Brazil; an event so exceedingly rare, it was cause for concern. It was feared that the tribe had been driven to make the contact in response to some threat, and there was also concern that these people might contract infectious diseases, which has wiped…
uncontacted, unconnected peoples -- or is that just how some see it?
this video (link below) is a sharp contrast to many idealized visions of "uncontacted" peoples of this earth. watching the body language and hearing the voices of this interaction move something very deep inside me. why are they shouting no? why are they wanting weapons? a good reminder that #firstworldproblems is such a joke of a hashtag that perpetuates what I consider to be a culturally destructive meme of separation. more like #humanproblems , that have nothing to do with privilege, that can be solved with #loveforallbeings. yes, i bet the earth is the backdrop to this conflict as perceived scarcity of resources often is, but human relationships is center stage! let us not forget to tend the flames in our hearts with deep empathy and compassion. sending this thought out into the cyber realms in hope of meaningful understanding and connection to unfold.
/rant. more info below.
"RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31, 2014 (AFP) - Isolated native people wearing loincloths and carrying bows and arrows have emerged from the Amazon rainforest and made contact with the outside world in a video released by Brazil's indigenous authority."
link to video: http://g1.globo.com/ac/acre/noticia/2014/07/video-mostra-momento-de-contato-com-indios-isolados-no-acre.html
msn article in english here: http://news.msn.com/world/isolated-indigenous-make-contact-with-outside-world-in-brazil
Advocates for indigenous tribes and Brazilian officials are worried that a group of people in the Amazon who had been living in isolation from the outside world may have contracted the flu — a potentially deadly disease that these individuals had never been exposed to before.
Five young men and two young women became sick after they emerged from their remote home turf in Peru in late June and made contact with people living in a settled community. On three separate occasions, they voluntarily made contact with Ashaninka people in the village of Simpatia, just across the border in western Brazil's Acre state, said Fiona Watson, a researcher and field director with the advocacy group Survival International, who spoke with Brazilian officials who went to the region. During each visit, the newly contacted individuals were friendly with the Ashaninka people and stayed for several hours, Watson said.
But representatives from Brazil's Indian Affairs Department, or FUNAI, noticed that the group of seven showed signs of influenza during their visit on June 30, Watson said. Over the course of several days in July, these people received medical treatment for the flu and flu vaccines in case they later encounter other strains of the virus. They went back into the forest on July 11. [See Photos of Uncontacted Amazon Tribes]
The news worries advocates because uncontacted groups are extremely vulnerable to diseases to which they have no immunity. Past epidemics of malaria and the flu, for example, have devastated other tribes. What's more, this particular group may be at risk of violence from illegal loggers and drug traffickers in the region. Through interpreters, these seven individuals, who speak a Panoan language, reported that they were fleeing violent attacks in their home territory in Peru; they apparently came into contact with non-Indians who had fired gunshots at them near the source of the Envira River.
