Existential Crisis of the Masako Tribe

For the first time, the Brazilian National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI) has made public valuable information on the Masako tribe, which lives in a nature reserve in the northwestern Brazilian state of Rondônia, near the Bolivian border. Although its population has been growing in recent years, it is threatened by agribusiness development, logging, illegal mining and drug trafficking. To avoid the potential threat of disease from direct contact, the researchers used non-invasive observation to protect them.