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Isolated Indigenous man returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest after brief contact

A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian authorities said. Officials from Brazil's Indigenous affairs agency, Funai, arrived soon after and took him to a nearby facility. As a policy, Brazil does not actively seek contact with these groups but instead establishes protected and monitored areas, such as Mamoriá Grande, near where the encounter occurred.