Forget about your stressful life for a second and look closely at this:
Amazing. This recent photo was shot from a plane overflying the Amazon rain forest between Peru and Brazil in search of one of the world’s 100 remaining uncontacted tribes. Besides the fascinating aspect of having found new groups of mankind, this encounter raises ethical dilemmas:
“What is happening in this region is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the ‘civilised’ ones, treat the world“, says José Meirelles of FUNAI – the Brazilian government’s Indian affairs department.
For more photos and Reuter’s news article, go here.
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