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No! we went into his house and he came out with a bit of string and waved it in front of me. not again! ive been tricked once, its not happening again. laughter. so probably the most amazing moment of all for me was when operation awa decided they wanted to show the awa what theyd done. pirai, who grew up uncontacted, now is flying in a helicopter. pirai and a friend watched as government bulldozers destroyed the homes of farmers whod illegally occupied the tribes land and cut hundreds of hectar...

Of opening up the amazon means for a tribe i first met a decade ago. this is a community that grew up a couple of decades ago, uncontacted. to go into the jungle and meet people whove onlyjust made contact with the modern world is quite extraordinary. katou! chuckles. katou! "katou" means hello, apparently. i thought thered be a huge chasm, a kind of cultural gap between us, and that wed struggle to understand each other. emuka, emuka, emuka. that means "im happy". im here with the awa. the awa ...

Met a decade ago. this is a community that grew up a couple of decades ago, uncontacted. to go into the jungle and meet people whove onlyjust made contact with the modern world is quite extraordinary. katou! chuckles. katou! �*katou means hello, apparently. i thought thered be a huge chasm, a kind of cultural gap between us, and that wed struggle to understand each other. emuka, emuka, emuka. that means "im happy". im here with the awa. the awa live deep in the amazon rainforest. theyre some o...

Not again! ive been tricked once, its not happening again. laughter. so probably the most amazing moment of all for me was when operation awa decided they wanted to show the awa what theyd done. pirai, who grew up uncontacted, now is flying in a helicopter. pirai and a friend watched as government bulldozers destroyed the homes of farmers whod illegally occupied the tribes land and cut hundreds of hectares of trees. dogs bark.

Well, after years of neglect, the brazilian government has finally decided to do something. we are flying into a base camp theyve set up just outside the indigenous reserves, and thats where theyre operating from, driving out the people who have gone into the forest. it was like flying into a kind of forward base in afghanistan or something. you just thought, "hold on a second. the brazilian government, it really means business about protecting the awa." when we went back to the village, suddenl...

BBC News Published image captionThe Awa are traditional hunter-gatherers Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asked for $1bn (£720m) a year in foreign aid to reduce illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. But under Mr Bolsonaro deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has soared, jeopardising the livelihoods of some of the worlds most vulnerable indigenous communities. Our chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, has been trying to find out what this has meant for an Amazon tr...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asked for $US1 billion a year in foreign aid to reduce illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. But under Bolsonaro deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has soared, jeopardising the livelihoods of some of the worlds most vulnerable indigenous communities. The BBCs chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, has been trying to find out what this has meant for an Amazon tribe he first met back in 2010. Jungle in the Amazonian rainforest. Photo:...