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Uncontacted peoples are populations of indigenous peoples living without ongoing contact with neighbouring societies and the world community.
According to estimates from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the UN and the non-profit group Survival International, there are between 100 and 200 uncontacted peoples, numbering up to 10,000 individuals. A majority of uncontacted peoples exist in South America, especially northern Brazil, where the Brazilian government and National Geographic report that between 77 and 84 tribes live.
Other small groups of uncontacted people also continue to live in isolation, mostly in the equatorial forests of Africa and Asia.
Video below shows, for the first time, extraordinary aerial footage of one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes in Amazonia’s tropical forests.
