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Contact with 'Lost' Amazonian Indians May Be Inevitable Last week a team of anthropologists and uncontacted tribe experts revealed a series of images showing what is considered to be one of the one hundred or so uncontacted tribes currently living around the world. The pictures were taken during a flight over the tropical jungle located near the border between Brazil and ... 3 June 2008 05:20 GMT Logging Will Consume Half of Papua New Guinea's Forests in a Decade A study carried out by the University of Papua New Guinea shows that unless logging is dramatically reduced, at least one half of the forests in Papua New Guinea will be lost in about a decade, which would accelerate the local climate change. Satellite images of the forests taken between 1972 and 2002 show that at th... 2 June 2008 07:41 GMT Borneo's Pygmy Elephants, Under the Risk of Extinction This is a dwarf among elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. Now, these gentle creatures are menaced by the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat, the forests.A new research made by the World Wide Fund... 13 August 2007 03:06 GMT