{"id":40675,"date":"2019-01-18T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40675"},"modified":"2019-01-18T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:23:44","slug":"why-isolation-of-indigenous-groups-is-crucial-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-isolation-of-indigenous-groups-is-crucial-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isolation of indigenous groups is crucial today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/ouao270mtWXwfmxFQut13L\/Opinion--Why-isolation-of-indigenous-groups-is-crucial-toda.html\"><strong>Why isolation of indigenous groups is crucial today?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Issue:<\/u><\/strong> Article discuss importance of isolation of indigenous tribes across world after incident of killing of american christian missionary by sentinelese tribe<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indigenous communities\u2019 combined share of the world population is now at just 4.5%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Indigenous tribes show aggression to outsiders mainly because they associate outsiders with violence and infectious diseases like small pox leading to their depopulation during colonization time<\/li>\n<li>Colonial excesses had reduced aboriginal population in Andaman islands from more than 25 tribes to just four tribes<\/li>\n<li>After decolonization period, many independent countries made &#8220;<strong>no contact policy<\/strong>&#8221; for indigenous tribes respecting their right to their ancestral land and maintaining seclusion<\/li>\n<li>But encroachment continues for forest lands and produces for nations economic growth<\/li>\n<li>Brazil already lost three-fourth of indigenous tribes due to encroachment of forest areas equivalent to democratic republic of Congo<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous tribes are facing steep decline in population mainly on account <strong>of inbreeding phenomena <\/strong>but outside contact would make it much worse<\/li>\n<li><strong>United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples<\/strong> provides universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of indigenous people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Importance of isolation of Indigenous tribes:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indigenous tribes have good understanding of and show reverence for nature<\/li>\n<li>As <strong>world environmental sentinels<\/strong>, they <strong>safeguards 80%of global biodiversity and plays critical role in climate change adaptation and mitigation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This can be exemplified by no causalities of 2 isolated tribes in Andaman islands in 2004 Indian ocean tsunami mainly on account of their traditional warning system<\/li>\n<li>Acts as <strong>hub of biological treasure for scientists<\/strong> seeking to reconstruct evolutionary and migration histories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Way Forward:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indigenous tribal people are essential <strong>element in cultural diversity and ecological harmony<\/strong> and they should be <strong>allowed to live peacefully on their ancestral land that they preserved and honored for centuries<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why isolation of indigenous groups is crucial today? Issue: Article discuss importance of isolation of indigenous tribes across world after incident of killing of american christian missionary by sentinelese tribe Important Facts: Indigenous communities\u2019 combined share of the world population is now at just 4.5% Indigenous tribes show aggression to outsiders mainly because they associate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-isolation-of-indigenous-groups-is-crucial-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why isolation of indigenous groups is crucial today?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704847129},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}