The Brazilian government is attempting to protect the last surviving member of an uncontacted tribe that was massacred by settlers:

Sole survivor of Amazon tribe is most isolated man on Earth

http://www.gadling.com/2010/08/24/sole-survivor-of-amazon-tribe-is-most-isolated-man-on-earth/

(That's not his picture, that's a picture of a different person.)

The Most Isolated Man on the Planet

http://www.slate.com/id/2264478/pagenum/all/#p2

I tried to read some of the comments, but couldn't endure the stupidity.

The story of the woman "rescued" from her island was heartbreaking. She wasn't rescued, she was captured. Either the missionaries killed her, as they killed millions of indigenous peoples for Rockefeller and the big industrial interests, or once removed from her home she lost the will to live.

I wonder what the holes in the huts are for. Not too long ago I read about a storm that blew down tens of thousands of trees in the Amazon--perhaps it is a shelter from storms like that? A way to trap animals that wander into the hut?

Of course he must miss his people, but he's not lonely in the sense that a "citified" person would be lonely. He is a part of nature and he is surrounded by the little that is left of it. He lost his human relatives, but he still has his creature relatives.

The poor, brainless, brainwashed, domesticated captive slaves of civilization don't understand that they're imprisoned and that he is still free.

Of course he doesn't want to give his precious knowledge of life, health, and nature to those who are bent on destroying life, health, and nature. He'd rather fight and die.

I hope the Brazilian government can protect him. Let him live out his years before they destroy the tiny remnant of peace and freedom that is his home.

It would sure be nice if some version of a technological weapon destroyed everything and everyone civilized in Brazil and he survived in a hole in his hut and emerged to inherit the country.

I guess I'm dreaming.....