Peru’s former president Alan Garcia has publicly suggested uncontacted tribes have been ‘invented’ by ‘environmentalists’ opposed to oil exploration in the Amazon, while another spokesperson compared them to the Loch Ness monster. In fact, there are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world.
This unique film shows uncontacted Indians on the Brazil-Peru border in never-seen-before detail. It is the first-ever aerial footage of an uncontacted community. The footage was filmed by the BBC in collaboration with the Brazilian government, for the new BBC 1 ‘Human Planet’ series.
 A thriving, healthy uncontacted community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. The tribe lives in Western Brazil, near the border with Peru. |
 This man, painted with annatto seed dye, is in the uncontacted community’s garden, surrounded by banana plants and annatto trees, Brazil |
 Men painted with red and black vegetable dye watch the Brazilian government plane |
The Sentinelese – the most isolated tribe in the world? |
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Encounters with Peru’s uncontacted tribes |
 Uncontacted Indians in Brazil in May, 2008 |
 Uncontacted Indians in Brazil in May, 2008 |
 Uncontacted Indians in Brazil in May, 2008 |
 Uncontacted Indians in Brazil, in May 2008 |
 Uncontacted Indians in Brazil, in May 2008 |
 The house of ‘The Last of his Tribe’, a sole surviving uncontacted man who lives on his own in the forest after the rest of his tribe were massacred |
 This is ‘The Last of his Tribe’, a sole surviving uncontacted man who lives on his own in the forest after the rest of his tribe were massacred |
 Abandoned hut, believed to belong to the uncontacted Mashco-Piro, taken during a FENAMAD trip to Tayacomme, Manu National Park, Peru |
 Shelters built by members of an uncontacted tribe along the Curanja River, south-east Peru |
 Uncontacted Indians have left crossed spears across paths in northern Peru to warn outsiders to stay out |
 A Sentinelese Man, North Sentinel Island, India. This picture was taken shortly after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, and proved that the tribe had survived. The Sentinelese are one of the most isolated tribes in the world |
 Sentinelese people on a beach on North Sentinel Island, home to the tribe for up to 55,000 years |
 An abandoned house belonging to uncontacted Ayoreo Indians, Paraguay |
 Four Ayoreo-Totobiegosode men make first contact with the outside world in 2004, Paraguay |
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