…Petrobras has started exploring for oil and gas in…the Amazon, endangering…isolated Indian tribes…[and]…has installed 15 barges with high-capacity generators, pipelines and mining machinery on the Tapauá River…close to seven indigenous territories including the lands of the Suruwaha, Banawa, Deni and Paumari Indians…Petrobras has failed to consult the indigenous peoples in the area. FUNAI, the government’s Indian affairs department, was not informed about the exploration…Brazil’s National Oil Agency stated that ‘no exploration for oil and gas has been called for, or authorized, by this agency in that region.’…experts…warned…that ‘over 1,300 people could suffer irreversible impacts’…The exploration could prove fatal for the Hi Merimã, an uncontacted tribe living close to the exploration site.Uncontacted Indians are extremely vulnerable…as they have no immunity to common diseases…Survival…said…‘…when the lands of uncontacted Indians are invaded, disease, death and destruction inevitably follow…’…