These include the Jarawas, North Sentinelese, Great Andamanese, Onge, and Shompen. While the Jarawas and North Sentinelese remain largely uncontacted, the Shompen - some 400 people - of the Great ...

The Shompen are particularly isolated, having "little contact with the outside world", making them especially vulnerable to contact with outsiders. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...

Shompen men walk through the forest on the Great Nicobar island. | Still from video produced by Professor Vishvajit Pandya and team for the Andaman and Nicobar administration. The Union government ...

"The project itself threatens to be genocidal for the Shompen and irreversibly deadly to the forests on Great Nicobar Island, an ecosystem of the greatest biodiversity," he said. Ramesh also ...