An intrepid explorer has recounted his remarkable encounter with an uncontacted tribe deep within the Amazon jungle.
There are approximately 400 tribes residing in the Amazon rainforest, speaking in excess of 300 distinct languages.
As per Survival International, it is believed that among these tribes, there are at least 100 that remain uncontacted in the Amazon.
One such tribe was being observed by Paul Rosolie’s conservation team, Junglekeepers, an organization dedicated to safeguarding the rainforest from threats posed by loggers, miners, and narcotics traffickers.
During his years spent in the Amazon, Rosolie encountered an uncontacted tribe and captured the moment on film, which he has since made public.
In a conversation on Steven Bartlett’s Diary Of A CEO podcast, Rosolie shared his experience of discovering that, while interacting with the male members of the tribe, his team had been unaware of another development.
Rosolie described: “Notice they are all men. The women were hidden in the forest.
“And while the men were making a distraction in front of us, the women were raiding the farm behind us, the indigenous people’s farm, our community’s farm.
“We were all huddled up very close. It was an incredible encounter but the prevailing emotion was fear.
“They were scared, we were scared.
“The indigenous people naturally have shotguns anyway. Everyone had their shotguns out.
“They had archers waiting.”
When Bartlett inquired how Rosolie discerned that it was the women who had visited the farm during their absence, he elaborated: “After this was over and we went to the farm, everything had been pulled up, all the yucca, all the plantains, all the sugar cane, the entire farm was ruined.
“The women in the village told me it was the women. Also you see the smaller footprints.
“These men have wide, big… from walking barefoot their whole lives… these guys have almost duck feet. Big fat calloused feet.”
Rosolie further shared how the tribe approached with a significant request, telling Bartlett: “They said, ‘Please give us food. Please give us rope.’ And they had one other question. They said, ‘How do we tell the bad guys from the good guys?’”
Confounded by this, Rosolie asked: “What do you mean? Who are the bad guys?”
The tribe reportedly replied: “Some of you shoot at us with the fire sticks.”
The explorer highlighted that hostile entities encroaching on the tribe’s territory were contributing to deforestation and dwindling their population numbers.