Survival tells UN Jarawa tribe could be wiped out
Survival International has submitted a report to the UN warning that the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands could be wiped out unless the Indian government acts to protect them.
Survival International has submitted a report to the UN warning that the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands could be wiped out unless the Indian government acts to protect them.
The authorities on the Andaman Islands have begun a training programme for local police and welfare staff charged with protecting the Jarawa tribe.
Survival will hold vigils tomorrow, 10 October, in London and Paris in support of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands, India. The Jarawa are in danger of being wiped out by settlers and poachers invading their land.
Police in the Andaman islands have arrested 14 men who illegally entered the reserve of the isolated Jarawa tribe. Survival and groups in the islands have been urging the government to clamp down on rampant poaching in the reserve.
Survival has presented a petition with 50,000 signatures in support of the Jarawa tribe to Sonia Gandhi in Delhi and to the Indian High Commission in London.
A man from the isolated Jarawa tribe has been beaten up by a poacher hunting illegally on the tribe's land.
Doctors on the Andaman Islands have confirmed that members of the Jarawa tribe have been suffering from measles.
A group of top Indian officials flew to the Andaman Islands on Friday, at the end of the week in which news broke of a disease epidemic among the isolated Jarawa tribe.