Video of uncontacted Amazon tribe (Awá tribesman) highlights the threat from illegal loggers

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The Awá have been described as the world’s most threatened tribe by the NGO Survival International, which has tracked killings by loggers, who surround and frequently encroach upon the group’s territory.
Remarkable close-up footage that appears to show an uncontacted tribesman in the Amazon rainforest has been released by an indigenous media group that wants to raise awareness of the threat posed by illegal loggers, miners and drug traffickers.



The video clip shows a bare-chested man with a spear, who is believed to belong to the Awá people. He is seen sniffing a machete that has been left in the undergrowth, before growing suspicious – and then alarmed. He flees into the undergrowth with a fellow hunter when he realises he is being watched.

Many of the community have been forced to abandon the forest, but some remain in self-imposed isolation. Their existence has been called into question by commercial interests that want to move into the land, but the new footage has been cited as proof that they remain in the territory.

It was recorded by a member of a neighbouring tribe, the Guajajara, which is trying to defend one of the last pockets of intact forest in Maranhão, a massively deforested state in the north-east of Brazil.

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