"It beggars belief that someone could be that reckless and idiotic." Situated hundreds of miles from the Indian mainland in the Bay of Bengal, North Sentinel Island is home to the world's most ...

If he'd been successful, he might have spread a deadly disease to the Sentinelese people—or gotten himself killed.

The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, published the photos Thursday on its Web site. It tracks "uncontacted tribes" -- indigenous groups that are thought to have had no ...

Brazil's National Foundation for Indigenous ... This practice is used to prevent uncontacted people from entering farms or ...

An aspiring YouTube influencer and self-described “danger tourist” was arrested by authorities in India after allegedly ...

The last known member of an indigenous tribe in Brazil has died ... the "Man of the Hole" is believed to have lived entirely isolated from the rest of the world for at least 26 years, per CNN.

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Peru, like Brazil, has a no-contact policy for isolated tribes. The strategy is to create protected areas off-limits to outsiders, control access to these areas, and be prepared to respond when ...

Of the world's 100 known un-contacted tribes, over half are in Brazil or Peru and are in danger of being driven off their land, says Survival International. Also a threat to isolated groups is the ...

A 2013 satellite view of a settlement of uncontacted people in Acre, Brazil. Satellite image by Digital Globe Robert Walker is making innovative use of satellite imagery to assess the last ...