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...
View ArticleParaguay’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...
View ArticleDongria'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...
View ArticleYanomami 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...
View ArticleUK 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...
View ArticleCampaigners 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...
View ArticleSurvival 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...
View ArticleCountdown: 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...
View ArticleVenezuela: 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...
View ArticleAlleged 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...
View ArticleVictory: 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...
View ArticleEuropean 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...
View ArticleGuilty: 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...
View ArticleEarth’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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleVenezuela’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...
View ArticleIndonesia 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...
View ArticlePenan 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...
View ArticleBlockade 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...
View ArticleCompany 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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