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Sole survivor of Amazon tribe caught on camera after 22 years
Updated On: 21 July, 2018 09:20 AM IST | Rio de Janeiro | Agencies
"He has good health and a good physical shape," said Altair Algayer, a regional coordinator for the Brazilian government indigenous agency Funai, who was with the team who filmed the footage
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The indigenous tribe was wiped out by farmers in the 1970s
Remarkable footage has been released of an uncontacted indigenous man who has lived alone in an Amazon forest for at least 22 years. Semi-naked and swinging an axe vigorously as he fells a tree, the man, believed to be in his 50s, has never been filmed so clearly before.
"He has good health and a good physical shape," said Altair Algayer, a regional coordinator for the Brazilian government indigenous agency Funai, who was with the team who filmed the footage.
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