Jonathan Mazower von der Organisation meint, man sollte sich selbst überlassen und vor Kontakt mit der Außenwelt schützen. Ethnologen befürchten, ohne Hilfe würden sie bald aussterben, schreibt die New York Times
"[...] Based on accounts from people who have ceased living in isolation, and those who have had fleeting contact with these societies, experts say members of these communities are fearful that contact with outsiders would bring disease and mistreatment. Native communities in the Amazon were ravaged when European settlers began colonizing the Americas in the 1500s and later in the 1800s when rubber tappers flooded the region. [...]
“Many tribes in the frontier region of Brazil and Peru are probably survivors of the rubber boom who witnessed the enslavement and atrocities against indigenous peoples and fled to the headwaters of the Amazon to evade capture,” said Jonathan Mazower, an expert on isolated communities at Survival, a London-based organization that advocates greater protection for the groups. [...]
Robert Walker and Kim Hill, two prominent anthropologists who study isolated societies, argued in an essay published in 2015 that it was time to reconsider the no-contact policy that governments like Brazil and Peru have maintained in recent years.
“Unless protection efforts against external threats and accidental encounters are drastically increased, the chances that these tribes will survive are slim,” Mr. Walker and Mr. Hill wrote in the essay, published in the magazine Science. "
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