Mission to find never-contacted Amazon tribe to stop “catastrophic” jungle war

In 2015, the Korubo split after an internal disagreement and a group of them separated from the tribe, moving to another part of the forest closer to the Matis, and they never had contact with each other again. Anthropologists now fear that, as well as the prospect of both tribes launching deadly attacks on each other, the potential of contact between the Matis and the other, as yet still isolated Korubo tribe, as well as the desire expressed by the breakaway tribe to reestablish contact with their relatives, could lead to a breakout of disease which could bring the ancient tribe to extinction. The Javari Valley indigenous reserve, where the Korubo and Matis live, is home to seven unconnected tribes, one of the largest concentrations of isolated peoples in the country.

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