101 East - The Vanishing Sea Tribe

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On Thailand's tropical Surin Islands lies one of the world's fastest disappearing cultures. The Moken, a nomadic sea tribe that has roamed the Andaman sea for centuries, are in a desperate fight to keep their traditions alive. Having survived the 2004 tsunami by recalling their ancestors' cautionary tales, the winds of modernity are now proving a greater threat to their way of life.

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