Summary
Images from automatic cameras reveal the first detailed glimpse of the isolated Massaco community in the Brazilian Amazon, estimated to have doubled in size since the 1990s to 250 people.
Despite threats from ranchers, loggers, and miners, the Massaco remain resilient, using strategies like spikes to deter outsiders.
Brazil’s no-contact policy, initiated in 1987 to protect isolated Indigenous peoples from disease and exploitation, has led to population growth among similar groups.
However, chronic underfunding and illegal encroachments continue to threaten these communities and the forests they protect.
can’t blame them.
I’d murder some of my neighbors if they contact me by walking into my house unannounced.
Usually armed with a canister of gasoline and a lighter :3c
Like really there’s a reason these tribes in the Amazon that kill white people on sight are the only ones whose way of life hasn’t been completely wiped out yet.
Keyword yet.
There won’t be an amazon jungle for very long, and they’ll be all out of places to live in unmolested.