Amazon Guardians respond to killing of Paulo Paulino Guajajara
Paulo Paulino "Lobo" Guajajara, Guardian of the Amazon, was killed in an ambush by loggers.© Sarah Shenker/Survival InternationalA statement from the Guajajara Guardians of Arariboia Indigenous...
View ArticleMunduruku tribe denounces illegal mining in Brazil
Munduruku people protest in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brazil, 2018© Marcelo Camargo/Agência BrasilLeaders and representatives of the Munduruku tribe have denounced goldminers operating...
View ArticleCourt case reveals shocking details of abuse in tribal residential schools in...
Jyotsna's daughter was repeatedly drugged and raped at a Factory School in Maharashtra in 2019© SurvivalFifteen girls from a residential hostel for tribal children in Maharashtra, India, have been...
View ArticleDavi Yanomami receives 2019's “Alternative Nobel Prize”
Davi Yanomami holds the Right Livelihood award© Right Livelihood FoundationRenowned Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” received this year’s Right Livelihood Award, known...
View ArticleNew report reveals tribal evictions for tiger reserves are illegal
The camp of Asankudar, where over a hundred Khadia tribal people, who were thrown out of Similipal Tiger Reserve, were forced to live for months under plastic sheets.© SurvivalA new report by Survival...
View ArticleNew images of uncontacted indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon released
Aerial footage of an uncontacted indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon. 2019© ORPIONew images of an uncontacted indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon have been released by ORPIO– The...
View Article“Brazen and shameless:” outrage as controversial Indian mining company opens...
The Chief Minister of Odisha and Priti Adani, wife of Adani's founder, at the opening of the new Adani-KISS school, Jan 2020.© 5dariyanewsA controversial Indian mining company whose operations threaten...
View Article“Don’t fund our eviction”: honey-collecting tribe pleads with US government
Jenu Kuruba have lived with and nurtured the unique flora and fauna of Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. “For centuries we all have been living together as one: the forest, the animals and the tribes”.©...
View ArticleAmazon leaders call on Boris Johnson to “stand with us” in face of attacks
In 2019 Davi Yanomami won the Right Livelihood Award, the Alternative Nobel Prize. ©P Levinas/ Survival© Pablo Levinas/SurvivalSome of the Amazon’s most prominent indigenous leaders will hand in a...
View Article“A genocidal plan for the destruction of Brazil’s indigenous peoples”:...
Ricardo Lopes Dias, the missionary proposed as new head of FUNAI’s Uncontacted Indians Department© Ricardo Lopez DiasBrazilian President Bolsonaro’s government has proposed an evangelical missionary,...
View ArticleDamning UN investigation condemns WWF flagship project in Congo, reveals...
A Baka woman whose husband, named Komanda, was arrested by rangers in Messok Dja, then imprisoned on false accusations of poaching. In prison he was brutally assaulted by other prisoners, and died soon...
View ArticleIndigenous organizations slam London Zoo: "Why are they asking for money to...
Budhan Mahato, evicted at the age of 12 from Kastuhani village inside Chitwan National Park (Nepal, 2018)© Survival (Sophie Grig)London Zoo has been fiercely criticized by indigenous organizations in...
View Article#StopBrazilsGenocide: Indigenous Brazilians protest new mining plan
© Mídia NinjaIndigenous peoples across Brazil are protesting against President Bolsonaro’s plan to steal their lands and open them up for exploitation.On 5 February, the President signed a draft law...
View ArticleSurvival International launches 2020 tribal photography competition on...
Last year`s winner was a stunning portrait of a Tibetan girl holding a lamb by Mattia Passarini.© Mattia Passarini / www.mattiapassarini.comSurvival International – the global movement for tribal...
View Article“The doors are now open”: indigenous people denounce missionaries targeting...
The NTM in Brazil unveil their new helicopter for reaching uncontacted tribes in the Javari Valley© NTMMissionaries targeting uncontacted tribes in Brazil have announced that they will shortly start...
View ArticleDavi Yanomami warns uncontacted Yanomami in Brazil “could soon be exterminated”
© Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/HutukaraDavi Kopenawa, a Yanomami leader and shaman has made an urgent statement warning that a group of uncontacted Yanomami “could soon be exterminated” if the...
View ArticleAmazon Guardian, indigenous land defender, shot dead in Brazil
Zezico Guajajara, an Amazon Guardian, was shot dead in March 2020© Zezico GuajajaraZezico Guajajara, an indigenous Amazon Guardian, has been shot dead. His killing comes less than five months after the...
View ArticleSurvival International calls for protection of indigenous territories as “a...
Uncontacted Indians in Brazil seen from the air during a Brazilian government expedition in 2010.© G.Miranda/FUNAI/SurvivalThe protection of indigenous lands around the globe is critical to prevent...
View ArticleVictory: evangelical missionaries barred from uncontacted tribes’ land
Two of the missionaries who are the subject of the latest ruling, during a previous expedition.© FacebookIn a landmark ruling, a Brazilian judge has blocked evangelical missionaries from making contact...
View ArticleEU suspends funding to WWF’s flagship African project after persistent abuses
© Fiore Longo/SurvivalEU to review support to other parks in Congo Basin after lobbying by SurvivalThe European Union has suspended its funding of a controversial WWF project that aimed to create a...
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