The community’s size has more than doubled since the 1990s Incredible new photos from the Amazon rainforest have given us a first-look at a thriving indigenous community. The images, captured on automatic cameras, show the uncontacted Massaco people quietly thriving near the Brazilian border with Bolivia, the Guardian reports. This is despite the intense pressures they […]

1 year ago

There are fears logging companies are driving the tribe out of the rainforest Dozens of indigenous people from what is believed to be the biggest uncontacted tribe in the world have been spotted on the banks of a river in Peru. Images and footage published by the indigenous rights organisation Survival International show dozens of […]

1 year ago

Nine months of internet exposure has had a negative impact on the Marubo people. An indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest have developed an addiction to pornography, just months after being given high speed internet access thanks to Elon Musk’s Starlink. Last September, a representative for Musk’s company gifted 20 internet satellites to the two […]

1 year ago

The soldiers allegedly demanded gold in return for WiFi The Venezuelan military has killed four members of a remote Amazonian tribe after an altercation over a changed WiFi password. The Yanomami tribe are the largest isolated tribe in South America, with a collective of 38,000 people spread across 18 million hectares. It’s understood that the […]

4 years ago