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We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:05 pm
by The Hen
They found the Fukarewe, finally.
Lost tribe of 200 found in Amazon spotted by satellite
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 1:34 AM on 24th June 2011
Government officials in Brazil have confirmed the existence of an uncontacted population in the Amazon rainforest after the tribe of 200 was spotted by satellite.
Three large clearings were identified in a southwestern area near the Peruvian border this week, but the tribe's existence was only verified after airplane expeditions in April gathered more data.
Local government agency the National Indian Foundation uses the aircraft to avoid disrupting isolated groups.
Brazil has a policy of not contacting such tribes but working to prevent the invasion of their land to preserve their autonomy.
The government agency, known by its Portuguese acronym Funai, estimates 68 isolated populations live in the Amazon.
The most recently identified tribe live in four large, straw-roofed buildings and grow corn, bananas, peanuts and other crops.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:08 pm
by The Hen
I wonder haw many more truly isolated people there are living with us on this planet?
What must their world be like, and could I be happier being with them?
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:25 pm
by Sean
It'd probably be satellite broadband. I doubt they have ADSL...
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:45 pm
by Lord Jim
What must their world be like, and could I be happier being with them?
I doubt it Hen...
These tribes tend to have very low life expectancies; you probably be dead of old age by now.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:43 pm
by The Hen
It still might have been a happy and fulfilling life?
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:48 pm
by Long Run
The Hen wrote:It still might have been a happy and fulfilling life?
Only if we dropped in a laptop and wireless signal, with this BBS as the home page.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:21 pm
by loCAtek
What great news, a human population that helps preserve the rainforest. They do seem like a peaceful people, in tune with their environment.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:11 pm
by Sean
Three large clearings were identified in a southwestern area near the Peruvian border this week, but the tribe's existence was only verified after airplane expeditions in April gathered more data.
Yep, that's preserving the rainforest all right!
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:21 pm
by Lord Jim
I wonder if I can get a permit to open up a liquor store there...
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 6:48 pm
by BoSoxGal
Hen, you might be interested in reading this book:
It is an overall excellent book, but I bring it up here because I was struck by how the most destitute women living in the rural cave communities of China were also the ones who self-reported the highest levels of happiness. So I, too, wonder if the simplest of lives isn't best suited to optimal human happiness.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:09 pm
by loCAtek
Sean wrote:Three large clearings were identified in a southwestern area near the Peruvian border this week, but the tribe's existence was only verified after airplane expeditions in April gathered more data.
Yep, that's preserving the rainforest all right!
Compared to the logging/mining companies? Yup.
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:19 am
by Sean
It's still not preservation though...
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 1:58 am
by loCAtek
You got better?
Re: We're the Fukawi, we're the Fukawi.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:15 pm
by The Hen
bigskygal wrote:Hen, you might be interested in reading this book:
Thanks bsg. I'll look it up in my local library and borrow it.
I'd like to think that without I'd remain happy.