Survival International captured detailed pictures of the Mashco-Piro people in Peru in 2013, who had previously had little peaceful contact with the outside world. Many of these are in the Amazon area, including in Brazil and Peru, and in Papua New Guinea. Survival International, a charity group which advocates for tribal peoples' rights, estimated in 2013 there were about 100 groups around the world. The Mashco-Piro people of Peru have also largely avoided outside contact. They live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and have attacked people who have visited the island in the past. Rough estimates have put the Sentinelese population at between 50 and 150, and they have their own language which is not spoken by any outsiders, and is unrelated to those on surrounding islands. It even passed a law in 2017 that made it illegal to post photos or videos of the Sentinelese, as well as other Andamanese groups, on social media. Since then, it has controlled access to the island and kept it under watch with its coast guard. The island has belonged to India since 1947, but is recognised as a sovereign state. India proclaimed North Sentinel Island as part of the Republic of India in 1970.
Their home on North Sentinel Island, in the Indian Ocean, is just under 60 square kilometres and is 1,200km from the Indian mainland. They are defined as an "uncontacted people" - a group which lives without significant contact with the greater world. Here's how the Sentinelese have managed to stay disconnected from the outside world for so long. The Sentinelese are believed to be the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world and are known to shoot arrows at outsiders who approach the island.Ĭhristian missionary John Allen Chau was apparently shot and then left dead on the beach last week, having paid fishermen to illegally tow him to North Sentinel Island in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Tasmania Marine Debris Clean Up.The killing of an American missionary by an endangered tribe in the Indian Ocean has raised the interesting plight of the Sentinelese people. Plastic Pollution / When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide, Coastal Care ©-2009Ĭollecting plastic waste near coasts ‘is most effective clean-up method’, Guardian UK (01-19-2016) Widespread adoption of products labelled ‘biodegradable’ will not significantly decrease the volume of plastic entering the ocean or the physical and chemical risks that plastics pose to marine environment, concluded a UN report released today… UN Declares War on Ocean Plastic, UNEP (02-23-2017)īiodegradable Plastics Are Not the Answer to Reducing Marine Litter, UN News Center (11-23-2015) This is about seven times more than scientists had previously estimated… This new study suggests there are 15 to 51 trillion micro plastic particles (those less than 200 millimeters in size) in the world’s oceans, weighing between 93 and 236,000 metric tons. The Ocean Is Contaminated by Trillions More Pieces of Plastic Than Thought, IOP Science (12-08-2015) The Arctic is a ‘dead end’ for ocean plastic MNN (04-24-2017)
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Read Full Article Science Daily (05-15-2017) The beaches of one of the world’s most remote islands have been found to be polluted with the highest density of plastic debris reported anywhere on the planet, a new study shows.ĭespite being uninhabited and located more than 5,000 kilometers from the nearest major population center, Henderson Island is littered with an estimated 37.7 million pieces of plastic… Although inhabited and remote, South Sentinel island is covered with plastic! South Sentinel, Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal.
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