Thirty-person expedition, including Funai officials and a doctor, contacted and vaccinated 34 people from the Korubo tribe

Brazil’s biggest and most ambitious expedition in decades to contact a voluntarily isolated indigenous tribe has been declared a success after venturing deep into remote and inaccessible Amazon jungle.

The rare, high-risk expedition aimed to prevent potential conflict between tribal groups in a vast and remote reserve near Brazil’s Peruvian border.

Thirty people, including officials from its indigenous agency Funai, indigenous people from four local tribes, a doctor and medical officials, successfully contacted and vaccinated 34 people from the Korubo tribe.

“We had some incredible moments which we will never forget. Our hope is that [the Korubos’] lives are good from here on,” said expedition leader Bruno Pereira, head of the department of isolated and recently contacted indigenous at Funai.

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