An expert on isolated tribes has captured incredibly rare footage of unreachable people, to “prove they exist”.

In a world where we can talk to someone on the other side of the globe in seconds, it’s hard to believe that there are people who don’t know this. social networks, supermarketsand telephones exist.

However, drone footage – taken by G. Miranda for Survival International – captured videos of tribesmen being disconnected from their social networks. the rest of the world.

The drone flew over North Sentinel Island, in a remote region of India, as well as Amazonian tribes in Brazil, near the Javari River valley on the border with Peru.

The videos were created to show how different life on Earth can be, while we are caught up in such busy, heavily online lives.

A video compiling photographs of these isolated people has been viewed more than 3.5 million times since its publication on Death Island Expeditions. YouTube page in 2018.

The video shows small settlements and houses, as well as tribesmen.

Some images show the tribesmen armed with bows and arrows and looking directly at the drone or camera equipment.

“I’m blown away how different our lives are. The fact that they don’t even know about the existence of grocery stores, factories, phonessocial networks, everything that makes our society what it is. This is so surreal,” one user wrote.

Meirelles also highlighted how isolated tribes in the region were threatened by illegal loggers in Peru. (G. Miranda/FUNAI/Survival)

FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, is the Brazilian government body that establishes and implements policies relating to policies relating to uncontacted indigenous peoples.

He is also responsible for some of the drone footage seen in the video.

The images of Brazil’s isolated peoples were taken in 2008, according to a report by Survival International, a human rights organization.

According to reports, FUNAI was under increasing pressure from powerful economic and political interests to prove the existence of these tribes, as they fought against development in the Amazon.

“We flew over their houses, to show that they are there, to show that they exist,” said José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Júnior, an expert on isolated tribes.

In 2008, Meirelles also highlighted how isolated tribes in the region were threatened by illegal loggers in Peru, which could lead to conflict.

“What is happening in this region (of Peru) is a monumental crime against the natural world, the tribes, the wildlife and demonstrates once again the total irrationality with which we, the “civilized”, treat the world” , he declared. .

Brazil’s indigenous leaders celebrated FUNAI’s decision to release the footage, insisting that these communities face a very high risk of contagious diseases and external violence if contacted.

“The very fact that these groups are not being contacted makes them particularly vulnerable because they are invisible to the majority of the public,” said Beto Marubo, an indigenous activist. said National Geographic.