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In the 1960s and 1970s, Brazil's federal government attempted to assimilate and integrate native groups living in the Amazon jungle in order to use their lands for farming. [ citation needed ] Their efforts were met with mixed success and criticism until, in 1987, Brazil created the Department of Isolated Indians inside the Fundação Nacional ...
The most isolated group has now come within 20 kilometers of the Matis arrow people, with whom they had a fatal battle in 2014, said FUNAI expedition leader Bruno Pereira. Brazil sends expedition ...
A group of "uncontacted" indigenous people came out of the Brazilian-Peruvian forest along the Amazon river and entering a nearby modern community. That video shows a Rare interaction with ...
In 2006, a group of nearly 80 Nukak left the jungle and sought assimilation to preserve their culture. As one of the migrants, Pia-pe, put it: "We do want to join the white family, but we do not want to forget words of the Nukak." [13] In October 2006, leader and Nukak Spanish speaker Maw-be' committed suicide by drinking poison.
The Man of the Hole [note 1] (c. 1960s – c. July 2022), [1] [2] or the Tanaru Indian, [note 2] [3] was an Indigenous person who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He was the sole inhabitant of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory, [note 3] a protected Indigenous territory demarcated by the Brazilian ...
Four children managed to survive 40 days in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle before they were rescued. New details emerge on how 4 children survived 40 days in Amazon jungle after plane crash ...
Birds of the Amazon rainforest (9 C, 523 P) F. Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" The following 200 pages are in this category ...
The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.