Award: Documentary Award

Time: March, 2003
Place: lndia，Andaman Islands
Nationality: The Jarawas

The Jarawas, a tribe of small negroids genetically similar to the South African bushmen, live on the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the middle of the Bay of Bengal ( Indian Ocean). The territory of those hunters-pickers, a vast tropical forest along a pristine coral provide for all their needs: fish, wild boar, shell, honey, fruits, water, wood. The Jarawas could preserve that harmony for decades by systematically welcoming most of the rare visitors with spear-snapped arrows, especially poachers and other looters of their environment. Today the main threat hanging today on the Jarawas are the settlers who are cutting huge amounts of precious trees from their forest. The 300 to 400 last Jarawas individuals don't weigh much against a population of half a million settlers.