Editing Rainforest (section)

=== Native people ===
On 18 January 2007, [[Fundação Nacional do Índio|FUNAI]] reported also that it had confirmed the presence of 67 different [[uncontacted peoples|uncontacted tribes]] in Brazil, up from 40 in 2005. With this addition, [[Brazil]] has now overtaken the island of [[New Guinea]] as the country having the largest number of uncontacted tribes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN17285256 |title=Brazil sees traces of more isolated Amazon tribes |publisher=Reuters.com |date=17 January 2007 |access-date=26 August 2012}}</ref> The province of Irian Jaya or [[West Papua (Indonesian province)|West Papua]] in the island of New Guinea is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=2191|date=25 January 2007|title=BBC: First contact with isolated tribes?|url-status=dead|website=SurvivalInternational.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206061137/http://survival-international.org/news.php?id=2191|archive-date=6 February 2008|access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> The tribes are in danger because of the deforestation, especially in Brazil.

Central African rainforest is home of the [[Mbuti]] [[pygmies]], one of the hunter-gatherer peoples living in equatorial rainforests characterised by their short height (below one and a half metres, or 59{{nbs}}inches, on average). They were the subject of a study by [[Colin Turnbull]], ''The Forest People'', in 1962.<ref>[http://library.thinkquest.org/26252/explore/15.htm The Tribal Peoples] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020212056/http://library.thinkquest.org/26252/explore/15.htm |date=20 October 2012 }}, [[ThinkQuest]]</ref> Pygmies who live in Southeast Asia are, amongst others, referred to as "[[Negrito]]".
There are many tribes in the rainforests of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Sarawak is part of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. Some of the other tribes in Sarawak are: the [[Kayan people (Borneo)|Kayan]], [[Kenyah people|Kenyah]], [[Kejaman]], [[Kelabit people|Kelabit]], [[Punan Bah]], Tanjong, Sekapan, and the Lahanan. Collectively, they are referred to as Dayaks or Orangulu which means "people of the interior".<ref>{{cite web |title=Indigenous People of the Rainforest |url=https://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/background/people.htm |website=Rainforest Information Centre Educational Supplement |access-date=11 April 2019}}</ref>

About half of Sarawak's 1.5 million people are Dayaks. Most Dayaks, it is believed by anthropologists, came originally from the South-East Asian mainland. Their mythologies support this.