The tribes people hunted indigenous red puma, Capuchin monkey and other land animals, and fished their plentiful rivers for fish and poraque (electric eels) for their fully self-sustained existence that they are in serious danger of losing without help in their battle against loggers. His journey to the eastern Amazon in the wet season last year saw Rodrigues join hunting missions in dense foliage for periods that would equate to a day and half of office work for a westerner. The tribe, which numbers around 350 people, first adopted a nomadic lifestyle to avoid confrontations with invading Europeans and have successfully lived in the Amazon ever since. He survived an ambush in the late 1970s that set him on a 10-year trek in the eastern Amazon. While their nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle requires a level of bravery and enterprise many westerners will never comprehend, Portugal-based Rodrigues found a friendly and welcoming people despite needing to rely on hand gestures for communication. Karapiru, a member of Brazil’s Aw tribe, poses in his home in Tiracambu in 2017. They operate with the intent of protecting the rainforest from invasion by loggers, land grabbers, and drug traffickers. The French-born photographer, based in Portugal, travels the world to snap incredible black and white and colour images, documenting them on his site, but had never come across a tribe so untouched by modern life before. The 'guardians of the forest' are a forest protection group primarily composed of Guajajara tribal members living on Arariboia Indigenous Land, a territory in the north-eastern edge of the Amazon rainforest in Maranhão, Brazil. In a scene that could be from anywhere in the world, Piraima’a washes clothes in the river as children bath around him
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