Most endangered tribe

Just six members remain of the Akuntsu tribe of Rodonia state, western Brazil. They live in a single community, sharing just two malocas (communal houses) made of straw, and cultivate a small garden of corn and manioc. They are also keen hunters of wild pig, tapirs and agouti. The Brazilian authorities discovered the tribe in 1995, when they numbered seven. The daughter of the shaman and the leader, Konibu, have since died during a storm in which a tree fell on to their maloca. The cause of the tribe's demise was a massacre by cattle ranchersbulldozing the forest and causing near genocide among the indigenous population in the 1980's