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To: average joe who wrote (4747)	6/9/2008 8:16:09 PM
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Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil BBC News One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru. The Brazilian government says it took the images to prove the tribe exists and help protect its land. The pictures, taken from an aeroplane, show red-painted tribe members brandishing bows and arrows. More than half the world's 100 uncontacted tribes live in Brazil or Peru, Survival International says. Stephen Corry, the director of the group - which supports tribal people around the world - said such tribes would "soon be made extinct" if their land was not protected. 'Monumental crime' Survival International says that although this particular group is increasing in number, others in the area are at risk from illegal logging. The photos were taken during several flights over one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Acre region. They show tribe members outside thatched huts, surrounded by the dense jungle, pointing bows and arrows up at the camera. "We did the overflight to show their houses, to show they are there, to show they exist," the group quoted Jose Carlos dos Reis Meirelles Junior, an official in the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, as saying. "This is very important because there are some who doubt their existence." He described the threats to such tribes and their land as "a monumental crime against the natural world" and "further testimony to the complete irrationality with which we, the 'civilised' ones, treat the world". Disease is also a risk, as members of tribal groups that have been contacted in the past have died of illnesses that they have no defence against, ranging from chicken pox to the common cold. news.bbc.co.uk

To: average joe who wrote (4747)	6/18/2008 6:27:31 PM
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Fifth human foot found in Canada BBC NEWS A human foot has been found on a beach near the west-coast city of Vancouver, Canadian police say. It is the fifth human foot to wash up on beaches in the area in the past year. The latest find is a left foot, whereas the other four were right feet. Walkers spotted the body part floating in water off the suburb of Westham Island in British Columbia on Monday. Police and coroners are trying to identify the foot and discover if it is linked to the others found in the area. All were wearing shoes and had been in the water for some time. A police spokesman, PC Sharlene Brooks, said the find was being treated as a criminal investigation. "We are certainly not discounting the possibility that this may be linked to the other recovered feet, but it is just too premature and very speculative for us to even entertain that right now," PC Brookes said. She said police might not be able to say for some time whether the foot's DNA matched a known missing person, or any of the feet found previously. Gruesome finds The previous discoveries, all right feet, were all wearing running shoes. Last August, two human feet washed up on the beaches of small islands north of Vancouver. Then in February a third single, right foot drifted ashore. The fourth foot was discovered on a beach in suburban Vancouver in May. The city's newspapers and coffee shops are buzzing with theories to explain the mystery, says the BBC's Ian Gunn in Vancouver. Organised crime, boating accidents - even the 2004 Asian tsunami - are all being offered as possible solutions, our correspondent says. Police have said there is no evidence that the feet were deliberately severed or removed by force. Forensic experts say it is not unusual for body parts to become separated after they have been in the water for a long time. news.bbc.co.uk