Summary
Once, the Jarawa tribe thrived in its island isolation. Now there are only 270 members left. Is it too late to save them?
THERE are very few corners of the earth to have remained untouched for millennia. In Europe such isolation is unheard of. Yet in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, there is a wooded plane where not only the forest but its human inhabitants have not changed in several thousand years.See the full content of this document
Extract
Abused. Exploited. Alone
The people are called the Jarawa, one of four tribes living in the Andamans, a string of islands of the sort usually prefixed with the word "paradise". They live far to the east of India, but such has been their isolation, they look more African than Indian. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with their own language and live off wild pigs, monitor lizards, turtles and a marine animal called dugong, wh...
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