Uncontacted tribes

There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world. They aren’t primitive relics of a remote past. They live in the here and now. They are our contemporaries and a vital part of humankind’s diversity.

We know very little about uncontacted tribes but we do know they have vast botanical and zoological knowledge and a unique understanding of sustainable living. There’s irrefutable evidence that their tribal territories are the best barrier to deforestation, particularly in the Amazon rainforest.

Uncontacted tribes are the most vulnerable peoples on the planet. Whole populations are being wiped out by violence from outsiders who steal their land and resources, and by diseases like the flu and measles to which they have no resistance.

All uncontacted tribes face catastrophe unless their land is protected. We’re doing everything we can to secure it for them so they can choose how they live.

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