Survival International launches campaign to stop “30x30” – “the biggest land...
The 30×30 plan will be the biggest land grab in history.© SurvivalSurvival International today (Earth Day) launched a major new campaign to stop the plan to turn 30% of Earth into Protected Areas by...
View ArticleBrazil: European colonial history exposed in landmark court case
Indigenous protest, Brazil April 2018. ‘By painting the streets red, we’re showing how much blood has already been shed in the struggle to protect indigenous territories,’ – Sônia Guajajara, a...
View ArticleForest guards harass “Kings of the Forest” tribe, risking Covid outbreak
Police and forest officials harass Jenu Kuruba leaders who have been demanding their rights to live in their forest© Survival InternationalWhilst the pandemic rages in India, the Jenu Kuruba tribe are...
View ArticleArmed miners launch violent attacks on Yanomami in Brazil
Gold mining camp on Uraricoera River, Aug 2019.© courtesy of CNES/Airbus DS, produced by EarthriseHeavily armed goldminers have launched a series of attacks on the Yanomami community of Palimiú in the...
View ArticleRevealed: Bolsonaro’s plan to wipe out “the world’s most vulnerable...
Tamandua and Baita, two Piripkura men who are among the last survivors of their people. Their territory is shielded by the Land Protection Orders, but at imminent risk of being overrun by loggers and...
View ArticleCrisis in Yanomami territory as goldminers launch series of attacks
Yanomami people in the community of Palimiú flee as illegal miners open fire at them from a passing boat.© SurvivalA major humanitarian crisis is engulfing the Yanomami. In the last few months several...
View ArticleUN experts slam Modi’s government for incarceration of indigenous rights...
Hidme Markam, an Adivasi activist arrested for peacefully campaigning for her people’s rights.© SurvivalA group of seven UN experts* have written to the government of Indian Prime Minister, Narenda...
View ArticleFirst international counter-conference on conservation will denounce “world’s...
‘Our Land, Our Nature’. The conservation industry has a dark side rooted in racism and colonialism that destroys nature and people.© SurvivalThe world’s first major international congress on...
View ArticleMajor victory for Peru’s indigenous peoples: new uncontacted reserve created
The malocas (communal houses) of uncontacted tribes in Peru.© MinCul PeruA long-awaited reserve to protect the lands of uncontacted members of Peru’s Kakataibo tribe has just been created after years...
View ArticleBrazil: Only contacted member of threatened tribe denounces impending genocide
Rita Piripkura, the only contacted member of the Piripkura tribe. Her brother and nephew, Baita and Tamandua, are known to still live inside the territory.© SurvivalThe only contacted member of the...
View ArticlePHOTOCALL NOTICE: Protest at Brazilian Embassy in London against the...
Celia Xakriaba speaks at a protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in London in November 2019© Rosa Gauditano/ Survival InternationalAugust 25, 2021, 10AM – 11.30 AMBrazilian Embassy, 14-16 Cockspur St,...
View Article“Conservation as usual” comes under fire from UN expert ahead of world...
‘Our Land, Our Nature’. The conservation industry has a dark side rooted in racism and colonialism that destroys nature and people.© SurvivalAs conservationists and global leaders prepare to meet in...
View ArticleGlobal protests as Brazil’s Supreme Court set to begin landmark indigenous...
Over 6,000 indigenous people from approximately 170 peoples are protesting at the Struggle For Life camp in Brasilia against the Time Limit Trick.© SurvivalIndigenous peoples from all over Brazil are...
View ArticlePhotocall: Major protest to #DecolonizeConservation to be held in Marseille,...
‘Our Land, Our Nature’. The conservation industry has a dark side rooted in racism and colonialism that destroys nature and people.© SurvivalA major protest coinciding with the world’s first congress...
View ArticleFirst congress to decolonize conservation ends with call to place people at...
The “Our Land, Our Nature” press conference summarized the key messages of the congress of the day before.© SurvivalThe world’s first Congress to decolonize conservation has ended with a series of...
View ArticleSerious risk of attack by miners on uncontacted Yanomami in Brazil
Uncontacted Yanomami yano (communal house) in the Brazilian Amazon, photographed from the air in 2016© Guilherme Gnipper Trevisan/FUNAI/HutukaraA community of around 100 uncontacted Yanomami is at...
View ArticleCoal mine plans spark huge protest from India’s tribal people
Adivasi men look out on the vast PEKB coal mine that’s destroyed much of their ancestral land. Hasdeo Forest, Chhattisgarh.© Vijay RamamurthyHundreds of tribal villagers from India’s Hasdeo Forest...
View ArticleAyoreo appeal to Inter-American Commission to save their forest from destruction
The Ayoreo have previously blocked the trans-Chaco Highway to draw attention to government inaction over the destruction of their forest.© GAT/ SurvivalThe survival of the last uncontacted tribe in...
View Article"A total halt to new Protected Areas": campaigners issue Marseille Manifesto...
These Khadia men were thrown off their land after it was turned into a tiger reserve. They lived for months under plastic sheets. Millions more face this fate if the 30% plan goes ahead.© Survival...
View ArticleWWF accused of deceit, cover-ups and dishonesty in US Congressional Committee...
Rep. Jared Huffman chaired the Protecting Human Rights in International Conservation hearing, and strongly criticized WWF’s failure to take responsibility for the abuses they funded.© House Natural...
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