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Survival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands has gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road which cuts through a tribal reserve. [Read more…] about Victory for human safari campaign
The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. [Read more…] about Call for end to human safaris
The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival International – but the problem has continued.
On 11 January 2010 Survival wrote to the Lieutenant Governor of the Islands, warning him that ‘a number of tour operators are promoting tours which include sightings of, or encounters with, the Jarawa tribe.’ [Read more…] about Andaman human safaris