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Remarkable footage emerges of Amazonian tribe's last known survivor who has lived alone in jungle for two decades

The man is seen swinging an axe at a tree in the remarkable footage: Funai
The man is seen swinging an axe at a tree in the remarkable footage: Funai

Remarkable footage of the last known survivor of an Amazonian tribe murdered by farmers more than two decades ago has emerged.

The man, believed to be in his 50s, filmed swinging an axe to fell a tree, has never before been filmed so clearly.

Experts first discovered him in the Brazilian jungle in 1996 and his face was filmed for the first time in 1998.

They believe he has lived alone for about 22 years, spending his time hunting forest pigs, birds and monkeys with a bow and arrow.

Loggers, farmers and land grabbers murdered and expelled indigenous populations in the area in the 1970s and 1980s, it was reported.

And the man, known as the “indigenous man in the hole”, is believed to be the only survivor of a group of six killed during the attack by farmers.

“He is very well, hunting, maintaining some plantations of papaya, corn,” said Altair Algayer, a regional coordinator for the Brazilian government indigenous agency Funai in the Amazon state of Rondônia told the Guardian.

“He has good health and a good physical shape doing all those exercises.”

Algayer was with the team who filmed the footage from a distance.