Warning isolated Indigenous groups could vanish within a decade

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers - a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection.

A new report by Survival International, a London-based Indigenous rights organisation, attempts one of the broadest tallies yet, identifying at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries, primarily in the South American nations sharing the Amazon rainforest.

Released on Sunday, the report estimates that nearly 65 per cent face threats from logging, about 40 per cent from mining and around 20 per cent from agribusiness.

"These are what I would call silent genocides - there are no TV crews, no journalists. But they are happening, and they're hap