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[What's Burning?]

Here's something that puts everything into perspective. The pictures of the tribe are over at Wired.

Thackara and Watson want the public to write the Peruvian government, urging a halt of illegal logging in the Amazon. With logging, ranching and mining come foreign diseases and the destruction of forests on which tribes rely.

Some uncontacted people have fled from Peru into western Brazil, where this new group was spotted. Thackara emphasized that the tribes deserve protection not as living examples of Stone Age life, but as rare and distinct cultures.

"We're trying to encourage the view that these are evolving societies," she said. "They're not stuck in the Dark Ages. We want people to see them as something that can be part of our future."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/ ... 29&pid=957

[texasmr2]

Exciting that an unknown tribe/people were discovered and sad in the fact at what is happening with the Amazon .

[F1er]

they sure dont spend much in clothing

[texasmr2]

they sure dont spend much in clothing

Actually some of us here take this seriously .

[bud]

Don't get me started on the amazon! f***ing loggers!

[texasmr2]

Don't get me started on the amazon! f***ing loggers!

Amen brother .

[vaptin]

I know, its a shame we don't see to have learnt from history, we're taken the short term convenient option.

A doctor who quote springs to mind, the Doctor said to the Master "You don't have to dominate the world just to see it", why can't we actually take advantage of what's on offer in the Amazon by learning from it, but instead its being wiped out.

We've wiped out many things as humans, not just plants and animals but suppressed and lost cultures too, heck Genghis Khan was careful to avoid this, so I think the rest of us can manage.