Dubbed the Massaco people after a nearby river, they live in the Brazilian rainforest near the border with Bolivia. No one knows what they call themselves. Photo: Funai According to Brazil’s ...

Unprecedented images of uncontacted Indigenous people in Brazil’s Massaco Indigenous Territory, in the Amazon region, have ...

This practice is used to prevent uncontacted people from entering farms or forestry camps to take tools. Previous indirect observations and satellite images in the area had shown that the Massaco ...

The Massaco tribe consists of just over 200 people, all of whom lived, tucked away, in the depths of the "lungs of the planet", with locals legally compelled to leave them alone. New photos ...

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Image credits: funai According to Algayer’s footage, the Massaco River people are becoming more numerous, a trend apparent among many un-contacted communities in the Amazon, The Guardian reported.