New footage shows members of a reclusive Amazon tribe walking through the forest. the indigenous people have endured a bought of violence over the past decade.
The tribe is believed to have had very little contact with the outside world, including other indigenous tribes, the Associated Press reported via Fox News.
The subjects of the video are thought to be members of the Kawahiva, a nomadic tribe.
FUNAI, a government group dedicated to protecting indigenous people, said the Kawahiva's population was only at about 50 a few years ago and could have dropped even lower.
"Assassinations in the last decades, field exploration, slave work, deforestation, illegal logging, so there is evidence that suggest that this group has suffered from all sorts of violence," Carlos Travassos, head coordinator for Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous groups at government body FUNAI, said, according to Fox News.
FUNAI believes there is a possibility the Kawahiva people have not been reproducing because they are constantly forced to run away from loggers and other threatening entities. A woman in the recent video is carrying a baby on her back.
The organization found abandoned abodes believed to belong to the Kawashiva, the shelters were full of food and other resources which suggested they had left in a hurry.
Their land is not protected by the government, so the tribe cannot grow their own food and must rely and hunting, fishing, and foraging. An order to protect the tribe's area was overturned by a judge in 2005.
One of their greatest threats to the Kawahiva comes from the town of Colniza, which is a "violent frontier [town] in one of the most deforested regions in the Amazon."
Evidence has suggested loggers from Colniza and other nearby areas have been deliberately targeting the Kawahiva. A report stated "heavily armed" loggers had been hunting down the indigenous people. A federal prosecutor has recently launched a genocide investigation regarding the matter.
The new video was shot by a government agency in 2011.
"When they are isolated we also have to protect them from contact because we know contact can cause damage and even extinction," agency president Maria Augusta Assirati, said, according to Fox News.
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