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Nasa spiritual leader shot dead at point blank range

Nasa Indians in Colombia have been caught in the violent crossfire of Colombia's military and illegal armed groups© Francisco PedroA 74-year-old Nasa Indian leader has been shot dead following protests...

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Paraguay’s government confirms Spanish tycoon’s company acted illegally

Jacinto Rey González is President of a ranching firm which has been illegally destroying the Ayoreo's land.© AnonAccusations that a ranching company owned by one of Spain’s richest men illegally...

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Dongria's message to Vedanta ahead of AGM: "We won't leave our land"

The Dongria Kondh have vowed to defend their sacred mountain from being mined for bauxite. © Lewis Davids/SurvivalAhead of the AGM of Vedanta Resources in London today, India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has...

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Yanomami Indians 'massacred' by goldminers in Venezuela

Survivors of Brazil's 1993 Haximu massacre hold urns containing the ashes of their relatives. Goldminers killed 16 Yanomami in the attack.© C Zacquini/ SurvivalGoldminers in Venezuela have carried out...

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UK newspaper confirms tourists still ‘flock’ to Andamans for ‘human safaris’

Hundreds of vehicles pass through the Jarawa reserve each day, many carrying tourists© G Chamberlain/ SurvivalThe British newspaper whose coverage of the ‘human safari’ scandal on India’s Andaman...

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Campaigners target Rio 2016 exhibition over ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’

Visitors to the Rio 2016 exhibition in London read leaflets about threats to Brazil’s Awá.© SurvivalTribal rights campaigners today targeted a London exhibition celebrating Brazil’s cultural heritage...

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Survival denounces Venezuela’s 'whitewash' of Yanomami 'massacre'

The Yanomami way of life is threatened by illegal goldmining in the Amazon.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival has denounced the Venezuelan government’s repeated denials of a massacre against Yanomami...

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Countdown: Brazil has three months to evict invaders

Brazil has three months to evict illegal loggers from Awá land.© SurvivalBrazil has just three months to evict illegal loggers from land belonging to Earth’s most threatened tribe before it will be in...

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Venezuela: miners' invasion continues, but no sign of destruction of Irotatheri

Illegal goldminers have been occupying the Yanomami territory for years.© SurvivalHaving received its own testimony from confidential sources, Survival now believes there was no attack by miners on the...

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Alleged Yanomami massacre: Survival's reaction

Illegal goldmining threatens Yanomami communities in both Brazil and Venezuela.© SurvivalSurvival International has been accused of a ‘climbdown’ over its announcement that, apparently contrary to...

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Victory: Vedanta to close Orissa refinery

The Dongria Kondh have fought a David and Goliath battle against Vedanta© Lewis Davids/SurvivalSupporters of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe are celebrating after controversial British mining company...

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European poll shows overwhelming support for Jarawa buffer zone

Voters in the Italian poll overwhelmingly supported a buffer zone to ‘safeguard’ the Jarawa’s future.© SurvivalAn opinion poll in a leading European newspaper has shown overwhelming support for a...

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Guilty: Australia’s Channel 7 censured over ‘racist’ infanticide report

Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s...

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Earth’s most threatened tribe demands help ‘urgently’ amid hunting peril

The Awá tribe is one of the world’s few hunter-gatherer peoples. Their survival is now at risk.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the...

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Amazon Indians in legal victory

The Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching...

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Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to tackle illegal goldminers

The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the...

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Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its...

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Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site

Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second...

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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe paralyzes railway

Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend...

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Company boss named in forgery probe linked to Spanish construction giant

Paraguay's Ayoreo were the victims of a forgery scandal earlier this year.© SurvivalThe boss of a company controlled by one of Spain’s biggest corporations has been linked to a scandal involving forged...

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