Indigenous tribes risk extinction amid invasion of travel influencers

This is not the way they want to go viral.

Clout-seeking travel influencers are doing more than just displaying their ignorance abroad — they could be endangering people’s lives. A charity has warned that globe-trotting content creators are posing a dire threat to uncontacted tribes by exposing them to unfamiliar diseases, potentially wiping most of them out within a decade.

“The results of contact are catastrophic — the devastating and predictable deaths of children, parents, siblings and friends on a genocidal scale,” indigenous rights advocate Survival International declared in the report, the Times of London reported. 4

In the paper, entitled Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples: at the edge of survival,” the group pointed out that there are 196 uncontacted indigenous groups around