“On Earth, there are currently more than a hundred peoples thought to be living in isolation. Isolated, uncontacted or in voluntary isolation – these are terms with varying nuances, but that are all used to describe peoples who live beyond the reach and away from our Western way of life. In the Amazon, straddling the borders of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia (a region often called the Uncontacted Frontier), the largest number of these peoples live. Almost all of them are nomadic, living in remote virgin environments within the rainforests, where they thrive in family groups that move around their territories with the shifting seasons – crossing the borders between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru without recognising these boundaries.
Knowledge of the existence of these groups comes mainly from aerial surveillance images, encounters with workers from the logging and other extractive companies operating in the area, road builders, missionaries, scholars, explorers, drug traffickers… The first contact with these communities is often dangerous, and sometimes tragic, for both the tribe and those who try to establish communication – apart from their desire to remain incommunicado, these isolated peoples may lack immunity against diseases common amongst the rest of us, which can kill a large percentage of their population after contact.”
One of the recordings that helped us to imagine and evoke an area of that deep rainforest: