{"id":15035,"date":"2024-12-15T12:42:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15035"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:42:35","slug":"drone-footage-captures-incredibly-rare-images-of-uncontacted-people-who-are-cut-off-from-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15035","title":{"rendered":"Drone footage captures incredibly rare images of uncontacted people who are cut off from world"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">One person noted that they don&#8217;t know of the existence of social media<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>An uncontacted tribes expert captured incredibly rare footage of people who have been uncontactable, to &#8216;prove they exist&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In world where we are able to speak to someone on the other side of the globe within seconds, it&#8217;s hard to believe that there are people who don&#8217;t know that\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/social-media\">social media<\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/food-and-drink\">supermarkets<\/a>, and phones exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, drone footage &#8211; taken by G. Miranda for Survival International &#8211; has captured videos of tribespeople who have been disconnected from\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/travel\">the rest of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The drone flew over North Sentinel Island in a remote part of India, as well as the Amazon tribes in Brazil near the Javari River valley by the Peru border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The videos were created to highlight just how different life can be lived on earth, as we get caught up in such busy and heavily online lives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazing Drone Footage Captures Uncontacted Amazon Tribe\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9DG1cB5_RSU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">A video compiling photographs of these uncontacted people has been viewed more than 3.5 million times since being posted on the Death Island Expeditions\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/youtube\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0page in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The video shows small settlements and homes, as well as tribespeople.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Some images show the tribespeople armed with bows and arrows and looking directly at the drone or photography equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cIt blows my mind how different our lives are. The fact that they don&#8217;t even know about the existence of grocery stores, factories,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/technology\">phones<\/a>, social media, everything that makes our society what it is. It&#8217;s so surreal,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt990225491514eb0a\/65ccb462844188040a61c944\/resize_(60).webp\" alt=\"Meirelles also noted how the uncontacted tribes of the region were in danger from illegal loggers in Peru. (G. Miranda\/FUNAI\/Survival)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Meirelles also noted how the uncontacted tribes of the region were in danger from illegal loggers in Peru. (G. Miranda\/FUNAI\/Survival)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, is the Brazilian government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to uncontacted policies relating to indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It is also responsible for some of the drone images seen in the video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The footage of the uncontacted tribespeople of Brazil were taken in 2008, according to a report by Survival International, a human rights organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">According to reports, there was mounting pressure on FUNAI from powerful economic interests and politicians to prove these tribes existed, as they fought against development in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cWe did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist,\u201d said uncontacted tribes expert Jos\u00e9 Carlos dos Reis Meirelles J\u00fanior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In 2008, Meirelles also noted how the uncontacted tribes of the region were in danger from illegal loggers in Peru, which could result in conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cWhat is happening in this region [of Peru] is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the fauna and is further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the &#8216;civilised&#8217; ones, treat the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Indigenous leaders in Brazil celebrated FUNAI&#8217;s decision to release the footage, insisting that these communities face a very high risk towards contagious diseases and outsider violence if they are contacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cThe very fact that these groups are uncontacted makes them particularly vulnerable because they\u2019re invisible to the majority of the public,\u201d Beto Marubo, an indigenous activist,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/culture\/article\/brazil-uncontacted-tribe-indigenous-people-amazon-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0National Geographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person noted that they don&#8217;t know of the existence of social media An uncontacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":357,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}