Description: A project to carry out the factors responsible to human extinction under the Human Development Institute.
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A cumulative risk assessment (CRA) of the factors responsible for near-extinction of an ethnic group with only 59 heads surviving. See film for overview.
Started in 2000 as a pioneering socio-scientific research under HDI of Global Initiatives to develop a formula/method to estimate the vulnerabiltiy of indigenous people using quantifiable metrics.
Experts (scientists, sociologists and multimedia crew) are visiting the population periodically from 2000-present. A medical dispensary was set-up in 2009. More