He lives alone for 22 years: they confirm that the last representative of the Brazilian tribe is still alive

Nobody knows his name. Nobody knows the name of their city. And apparently he lives alone in the Brazilian Amazon for 22 years.

A video released for the first time this week shows images of an Indian who likely did not have contact with the outside world and who would be the last survivor of his tribe. . The shots were recorded in 2011, although a surveillance team reported seeing evidence of his life in May.

In shaky images captured from afar through the foliage, a man is seen cutting down a tree with an ax. The blows she gives to the trunk, as well as the trill of the birds, are heard.

The video was broadcast after a news report that noted that there is only one human image captured by a documentary filmmaker. 1990, in which his face was hidden behind the leaves of the trees.

Altair Algayer, coordinator of the Indian National Foundation's team that monitors the man, said that the institution did not want to publish it because he could not ask for his Consent But he also noted that these images help to draw attention to the troubles that some oblations spend in order to stay away from the outside world. "

" A lot of people are looking (this video). They want to know what it is, how one can see it, if it is still alive, "Algayer said during a phone interview." I think that eventually it helps to protect the territory ".

In Brazil live several peoples without contact with the outside whose lands, like those of many indigenous groups, are every day under greater threat because of the struggle for resources Last year, 71 people were killed by land conflicts, the largest number since 2003, according to the Pastoral Land Commission, which keeps a record of violence.

The National Indian Foundation has been monitoring the man since 1996, when he found him living alone in the jungle of the state of Rondonia.He believes the invasion of the land and illegal farmer attacks and loggers who began in the 1980s decimated his tribe.

Apparently, his last tribal companions were killed in an attack in 1995 or 1996. However, in the past few years, no one has tried to enter the protected area where he lives, said the foundation.

The team following the track called "the native of the hole" because of a dug hole, Algayer said. "We do not know who she belongs to," he said, adding that the age of the man apparently ranges from 55 to 60 years old and that he is in good health.

The foundation's policy is to allow these people to live isolated, but initially, its members tried to contact the man because he was alone and they thought that he was in danger. He made it clear that he did not want to get in touch with anyone, and the foundation has not tried it since 2005.

About every two months, a team enters its territory at looking for signs that she is still alive. They do not always see him – the last time they saw him in 2016, but they can determine that he is still alive because of the tracks he leaves. A mission in May found fresh footprints and a recently felled tree.

He was left with tools and seeds, and saw that he planted corn, potatoes, papayas and bananas. to lose everything, including his people and a series of cultural practices, has shown that even though, only in the forest, it is possible to survive and not to join society, "said Algayer in a statement distributed by the foundation. "I think it's much better than if I had been in contact a long time ago."