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Robert Redford ‘delighted’ as sacred objects bought for Hopi by US foundation

In July lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon handed over a katsina to the Hopi.© SurvivalArizona’s Hopi people have welcomed the news that twenty-one of their...

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Kurt Jackson donates to Survival

Blustery Day near Oxford, May 2013, mixed media on paper, 53 x 61cm. All offers over £3,625 will be considered© Kurt JacksonLeading British artist, and Survival Ambassador, Kurt Jackson is donating the...

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Coca-Cola dragged into Brazilian Indians' land struggle

The leader of a Guarani community has sent a desperate plea for his tribe's ancestral land to be returned. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil have urged Coca-Cola to stop buying sugar...

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Paraguay grants license to bulldoze UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

The Ayoreo are outraged at new revelations that Paraguay has granted a license to bulldoze the last refuge of their uncontacted relatives.© Survival InternationalParaguay has caused outrage by quietly...

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A year of successes: Tribal peoples' reasons to celebrate in 2013

Tribal people around the world had reason to celebrate in 2013. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs the year draws to a close, Survival International’s new photographic gallery illustrates how tribal peoples...

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Bushmen’s public appeal to end government persecution

Bushmen leader and spokesman, Roy Sesana in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.© Lottie Davies/SurvivalBotswana’s Bushmen have held a press conference in the country’s capital to demand an end...

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Massacre investigation exposes Indonesian army atrocities

For decades, West Papua’s tribal people have suffered at the hands of the Indonesian military. This 'trophy' photograph was taken by soldiers, in the same year as the Biak massacre, after they killed a...

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New Penan blockade against oil palm plantation

Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach, during a previous blockade.© SurvivalForty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest...

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At last! Brazil begins long-awaited operation to save Earth's most threatened...

More than six months after the Brazilian army moved in to tackle illegal logging outside the land of the Awá, the Brazilian government has now started a major ground operation to evict illegal invaders...

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Kenya: Sengwer tribe faces eviction in the name of conservation

Sengwer, Marakwet and other inhabitants of the Embobut Forest are being told to move by authorities, March 2013.© Justin Kenrick/SurvivalSome of Kenya’s last hunter-gatherers face eviction from their...

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‘Aids and beer’: BBC finds despair in Bushman resettlement camp

A Bushman woman in the street in New Xade, the government resettlement camp to which many Bushmen have been relocated in the last ten years.© Dominick TylerA BBC report has found Botswana Bushmen...

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Victory: India saves 'Avatar tribe' from Vedanta mine

The Dongria Kondh are celebrating their victory over British mining giant Vedanta Resources.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalIn a sensational victory in the stand-off between India’s ‘real Avatar tribe’ and...

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Peru ignores UN and pushes ahead with deadly gas project

Uncontacted and isolated tribes like the Nanti are at extreme risk of contracting fatal diseases introduced by outsiders on their land.© Anon/SurvivalPeru’s government is on the brink of approving the...

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Survival launches first-ever photography competition on 45th anniversary

This image captures the Awá journeying to the realm of the forest spirits.© Toby Nicholas/ SurvivalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – has launched its first-ever...

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Bushman beaten by Botswana’s paramilitary police

Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example to others' defending the Bushmen's rights. © SurvivalA Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana has been held...

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Indian President’s passionate plea against assimilating tribes

The President warned that 'so-called development' must not be allowed to destroy the Jarawa tribe © Salomé/SurvivalIn a strongly worded speech the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, said this week...

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Mandela's Robben Island comrade denounces persecution of Bushmen

The veteran anti-apartheid activist Michael Dingake has denounced Botswana's persecution of the Bushmen.© Michael Dingake/SurvivalMichael Dingake, a veteran ANC activist from Botswana who was...

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Kidnap and sexual exploitation of vulnerable Andaman tribe reported

Reports of the kidnap and abduction of Jarawa women have led to concerns about sexual exploitation of the vulnerable tribe by poachers. © SurvivalSeven men have been arrested in connection with the...

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Study reveals world's highest deforestation rate on uncontacted tribe's land

Ranching companies are intent on clearing the last forest refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo.© GAT / SurvivalA new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay’s Chaco forest – the last refuge of the...

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‘Kenyan government forcing us into extinction’: evictions of Sengwer tribe...

Homes of the Sengwer tribe in Kenya's Cherangany Hills torched by forest guards© Justin Kenrick/ SurvivalA Kenyan government campaign against one of the few hunter-gatherer tribes left in east Africa...

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