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Brazil: Davi Yanomami awarded top honour
Yanomami shaman and spokesman Davi Kopenawa was awarded Brazil's Order of Cultural Merit© Fiona Watson/SurvivalDavi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman and spokesman from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, has been...
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COP 21: Tribal people on front line in battle against climate change
The Yanomami have been resisting the destruction of the Amazon for decades.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe COP 21 summit to be held in Paris from the end of the month has so far declined to give a voice to...
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Prominent Papuan prisoner released
Jubilant crowds celebrate the release of prominent Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma. © Free West Papua/ SurvivalProminent Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma has been released after spending...
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Botswana: Diamond mining continues to cause suffering for Bushmen
Despite a 2006 court ruling, the Bushmen have struggled to secure their rights© Survival InternationalDespite ever increasing profits from multinational diamond mining operations in the country,...
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COP21: Amazon fire destroying rare forest home of uncontacted tribe
The fire threatens to completely destroy the uncontacted Awá's forest home (file photo). © Survival InternationalWildfires are raging through the Brazilian Amazon, destroying vast areas of forest on...
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COP21: Prince Charles calls for more support for indigenous efforts at...
Evicting tribal peoples from their land has led to massive deforestation around the world. © Survival InternationalPrince Charles has this week joined calls for recognition of indigenous peoples’ land...
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COP21: Ogiek hunter-gatherers urge Kenyan President to protect their forest
The Ogiek's forests are one of Africa's key carbon sinks and a main source of water for Kenya's rivers© Yoshi ShimizuIn the wake of Pope Francis’s visit to Kenya, during which he called for greater...
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Brazil: Authorities stand by as fires started by loggers threaten tribe
Wildfires in Brazil are often started by loggers as a means of claiming territory and displacing tribes.© Survival InternationalFires – almost certainly started by logging gangs – are raging across...
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Success for Sarawak tribes as dam shelved
The Penan rely on the forest to hunt and gather. The Baram dam would have flooded 388 square kilometers of forest.© SurvivalThe Baram dam, which would would have flooded 20,000 tribal people from their...
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Revealed: Tiger numbers INCREASE when tribes stay in tiger reserves
The Soliga were the first tribe in India to have their right to live on a tiger reserve created on their ancestral lands recognised© Kalyan Varma/SurvivalStartling new data reveals tiger numbers have...
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Racist of the Year Award winner announced
Fernando Furtado, Survival's Racist of the Year 2015, addresses the Maranhao state assembly© Agência AssembleiaSurvival International today announced the winner of the Racist of the Year Award 2015 as...
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Mongolian reindeer herders banned from hunting in the name of 'conservation'
The Dukha are hunters not poachers, but are now being prosecuted for hunting on their ancestral lands. © Selcen Kucukustel/Magma magazineThe nomadic reindeer-herding Dukha tribe of northern Mongolia...
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Progress can Kill: Survival report reveals world's highest suicide rate
Suicide is often seen as the only option by people forced from their land and into a way of life they did not choose© João Ripper/SurvivalA new report published by Survival International reveals that...
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Survival launches annual tribal photography competition
2016's stunning winning entry, Bajau, Malaysia, 2013 © Soh Yew Kiat© Soh Yew Kiat /Survival InternationalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – is proud to announce...
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Progress Can Kill: HIV 'epidemic' strikes Venezuelan Indians
An HIV epidemic is decimating the Warao tribe in Venezuela. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalExperts have revealed that an HIV“epidemic” is decimating the Warao tribe in Venezuela.The news is a shocking...
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Revealed: “Pygmy” children paid in glue and alcohol
Forced from their forest homes, many central African hunter-gatherer tribes face exploitation on the fringes of mainstream society© C. Fornellino Romero/SurvivalTribal children in the African...
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BREAKING: Tribe attacked by gunmen in Brazil
Gunmen attacking another Guarani community in Mato Grosso do Sul, 2014© Aty Guasu/SurvivalA Brazilian tribal community is being attacked by a large number of gunmen in southern Brazil.The gunmen,...
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Will Botswana government's U-turn on Bushmen last?
Bushmen children now must apply for permits to stay with their families when they turn 18 – or risk 7 years in prison.© Forest Woodward / Survival, 2015The Botswana government has promised to restore...
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Paraguay's Indians see 14 million trees cut down in one month
Eroi was forced out of his forest in 1986. He was a shaman, but he stopped because the missionaries told him that shamanism was the work of the devil. © Gerald Henzinger/SurvivalA new report has...
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Progress can kill: shocking photos highlight tribes' health crisis
Warwick Thornton photographed his relatives to bring attention to the appalling health problems affecting Aboriginal communities© Warwick Thornton/ Anna Schwartz Gallery (Shanika, 2015 Pigment print on...
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