Fears for tribes, forests as India eyes Andaman island expansion

A floating dock of the Indian navy is pictured at the naval base at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, in this July 1, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Sanjeev Miglani/Files

JIRKATANG, India (Reuters) - Bollywood music blares from a line of food stalls serving tourists outside the entrance to a thickly-forested tribal reserve on India's far-flung Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Beyond the barrier patrolled by police, a few hundreds members of the Jarawa tribe hunt the lush rainforest for turtles and pigs and shoot fish with bows and arrows, largely unseen and untouched by the outside world.