Incredible Footage Shows Indigenous Tribe Completely Untouched By ‘Modern Civilization’

Sure, imagining a world without the Internet is pretty fascinating, but this footage is absolutely amazing. The BBC and Survival International have released footage from one of the last human tribes to be completely untouched by society. The tribe exists around the border of Peru and Brazil and the footage is absolutely breathtaking.

The video was taken as a collaboration and will be used in both the upcoming series Human Planet as well as the documentary Uncontacted Tribes. It was taken from a helicopter using a camera with an extreme zoom so as to minimize the disturbance to the tribe. But why take it at all? The tribe’s land is being encroached on by illegal loggers and, when asked to protect them, the Peruvian government expressed doubt that they even existed. This footage was the only way to prove they were there.

(h/t HuffPo)

You can watch a the footage in a clip from Uncontacted Tribes below:

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