The tribe live separately 55,000 years on the Indian Ocean Islands

The Jarawa tribe is threatened to be wiped out by the highway that cuts through their ancestral lands.

The Jarawa tribe has only 400 members living on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean and activists fear they may disappear in the next 10 years, Sun reported. The biggest threat to their existence is the highway that runs straight through their homeland, according to Survival International.

The Jarawa are very good at hunting animals.(Video: YouTube).

The road leads many visitors to the islands. Poachers also broke into rich forests on remote islands and hunted wild animals, the tribe's food source. This is one of many reasons the Jarawa tribe is hostile to people from the outside world.

Jarawa tribe has only 400 members left.(Photo: Claire Beilvert).

The members of the nomadic tribe are hunting masters. They specialize in trapping wild boars, lizards and turtles with a special kind of bow. Due to residence on the island, the source of food from the sea is very important to them. Men in tribes often catch fish in shallow waters.

The Jarawa people also like to eat fruits and honey. They take honey out of the nest by using plant extracts to appease the bees. They know thoroughly about more than 150 plants and 350 animals on the island. The Jarawa are strong warriors and ready to defy all to defend the territory. Experts estimate they have settled in the Indian Ocean Islands from 55,000 to 60,000 years ago.

The Jarawa live nomads based on food from the forest and the sea.(Photo: Claire Beilvert).

The tribe survived the English colonial era in the 19th century and the period of Japanese occupation later. In 1998, some Jarawa people started out of the forest for the first time without carrying a crossbow bow to visit other residential areas. However, in 1990, the local government drafted a long-term plan to bring them to settle in the two villages with the economy mainly based on fishing. The plan also proposes tribal dress styles.

"Forcing settlers used to cause disasters for other tribes in the Andaman Islands," International said. After the campaign of Survival and many other organizations in India, the resettlement plan was canceled in the early 2000s.