The young man from an Indigenous Amazonian tribe is receiving medical treatment, while authorities prepare to attempt communication with him.

Reportedly, the villagers believed that the man from the uncontacted Indigenous Amazon tribe contacted them to ask for fire.

An Amazon riverine community in Brazil had a rare encounter with a man from an uncontacted tribe, documented on social media. The man, appearing healthy, interacted with villagers who showed him a lighter.

Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates around 100 uncontacted Indigenous groups still live deep in the Amazon rainforest. But on February 12, a man from one of those communities decided to meet his neighbors.