An article that I ran across recently reminded me that we have to help preserve not just the life of plants and animals but also attempt to preserve the life of uncontacted indigenous tribes hidden deep within nature. In Brazil there recently was a tribe located that has managed to remain hidden from modern civilization. The tribe was described as consisting of about 200 members. The article shows that the members attempt to capture the airplane flying over their camp by firing arrows at the aircraft. Many dangers are presented if modern civilization were to establish contact with the native people. The article mentions that there is danger of disrupting their natural habitat or spreading germs that the tribal people were not immune from. In a previous attempt to establish contact with the same type of tribe, 45 tribe members ended up dying from lack of immunity to what we would consider common gems. By introducing both common and advanced deceases to these tribes we would like help contribute to an expedited process of their extinction as well. It is of great concern that this tribe including many other unknown tribes risk contact through aggressive logging activity with the country forest. It is sad to see that regardless of who, what and where on this earth much of this earth risk being contaminated by our modern hands.
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