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Individual Cannibals do still exist, but Cannibalistic societies are pretty rare. The most well documented Cannibalistic Community was in the remote Jungles of Papua New Guinea near the Pacific.


They exist in small groups in the thick jungle. i feel the number has decreased.
No current recognized state or organization currently practices cannibalism. Several primitive tribes are occasionally found to continue some ritual cannibalism, but actual documented occurrences are hard to find.

Opportunistic cannibalism still exists, of course. In extreme situations, "normal" folks of non-cannibalistic societies have resorted to cannibalism for survival, but this is highly unusual, as there are considerably taboos against cannibalism in all modern societies. Individual instances of cannibalism amongst certain criminals and mentally-ill persons are not that unusual, however.

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Cannibalism was a common practice in Papua New Guinea as recently as the twentieth century, and there are some tribes in the wildest western region of Papua New Guinea which are said to still maintain the practice, such as the ethnic groups of the Korowai and the Kombai people. This is practised only as a form of tribal punishment. They do not headhunt strangers. As with many tribal groups in Papua New Guinea, they operate outside of the country's laws.
Culturally there are no cannibals, individually there are cannibals. There is a current practice to eat the placenta from childbirth, and this is a form of cannibalism; although not wide spread.

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