Group fights to save tribes from extinction
Can a tribal group that hunts with bows and arrows, has been devastated by a measles epidemic and numbers fewer than 300 be spared near certain extinction? To mark the United Nations Day for Indigenous People today, British aid group Survival International has named the Jarawa people of the Indian Ocean Andaman Islands as one of three of the world's tribal groups most at risk of being wiped out.
The other two are the Ayoro-Totobiegosode of Paraguay - the most isolated Indians south of the Amazon basin - and the Gana and Gwi "bushmen" of Botswana, evicted from their land in 2002 to make way for diamond exploration. "We've focussed on these three because their problems are very acute, but we are optimistic they can all be helped," Survival researcher and spokeswoman Ms Fiona Watson said yesterday.
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09 Août 2003 à 13:46 dans
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