Pictures showing the image of an unconfirmed tribe were taken: Amazon in Brazil

Recently the NHK News On-line reported the following:

未確認の部族の姿を撮影 ブラジル アマゾン

2018年8月23日 17時37分

南米ブラジルのアマゾンで、先住民の保護に当たる政府機関は、これまで確認されていなかった部族の姿を撮影することに成功したと発表しました。

映像は、先住民の保護に当たっているブラジルの政府機関「国立インディオ基金」が21日、公開したものです。

場所はアマゾン奥地の、ペルーとの国境付近で、ドローンを使って撮影されました。

映像では、森の中で弓矢のようなものを持って歩く、複数の人の姿が捉えられています。

「国立インディオ基金」では、この地域に暮らす文明から孤立した先住民について調査を続けてきましたが、今回撮影されたのは、その中でもこれまで確認されていなかった部族とみられるとしています。

ＡＰ通信によりますと、確認された人は合わせて16人に上るということです。

国立インディオ基金によりますと、ブラジルでは文明から孤立した部族が100余り確認されていて、過去には外部との接触が伝染病の流行を招いたこともあることから、直接的な接触をせずに調査を行っています。

国立インディオ基金は「こうした映像が、先住民保護の重要性を訴えることにつながる」としています。

Translation

It was announced that an agency which protected indigenous people had succeeded in taking pictures on the image of a tribe at Amazon in South America Brazil that wasn't known to the authority up to now.

The pictures were exhibited on the 21st by a Brazilian agency which was equivalent to for the protection of indigenous people, the "National Latin-American Indian Fund".

The place where the pictures were taken was in the Amazon interior around the border with Peru, and a drone was used.

The image caught in the pictures was of more than one person who walked with something like a bow and arrow in the forest.

For the "National Latin-American Indian Fund", while it had been continuing the investigation on the indigenous people who were isolated from civilization and lived in this area, about those who were in the pictures taken this time, it was supposed that they were regarded as a tribe that was not known up to now.

According to AP News it was said that the confirmed people reached 16 in total.

According to the National Latin-American Indian Fund, tribes that had been isolated from the civilization were confirmed to be about 100 in Brazil. In the past their contact with the outside had caused the spread of infectious disease, now they were being investigated without direct contact.

For the National Latin-American Indian Fund, it was assumed that "such pictures lead to highlighting the importance protecting indigenous people."

          It seems that Brazil is doing a good job in protecting its indigenous people.