Uncontacted Indians

The Scope of Autonomy: Uncontacted Indians of Peru There are various diverse populations of people on the South American continent. It is calculated that more than a hundred uncontacted communities exist currently throughout the world. Today there are roughly fifteen native tribes that reside in the jungles of Peru. These societies have had little if any interaction with the westernized world, and live what is considered to be a primordial existence. They have not been influenced by means of western culture in any form. They are in any sense a pure society. Virtually all of the remote Indians are nomadic. They move through the jungles befitting the season usually in smaller lingering tribal clusters. During the monsoon period, when water heights are up, the groups, who in general do not utilize canoes, stay away from the waterways deep in the tropical forest. In the dryer seasons, however, when the waters subside and beaches form at the rivers edge they reside on the shores and fish. The dry season also brings out river turtles to the banks of the beaches to lay their eggs where they bury them in the sand. The turtle eggs are a vital source of protein for the tribes, and their specialty is finding and digging them up.

For example, roads are one of the chief reasons for the deforestation of the Amazonian rainforest. The propensity to build new access roads cause substantial direct effects — such as fragmentation of habitat — and frequently elicit even larger secondary effects, such as colonization, illegal logging, and unsustainable hunting (Finer 6). With the unrelenting latitude and degree of intended mining action, these extortions will only deepen minus any kind of enhanced international strategies. Any new guidelines embraced would have substantial influences one way or another on the area’s biodiversity and the destiny of its native