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Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right to water
The ruling means that the Bushmen can finally use a vital well.© Survival In a momentous decision, Botswana’s Court of Appeal today quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on...
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Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in the United States
Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes.© Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has launched in the United States a biting critique of how tribal peoples are being destroyed in the name of...
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Anti-mining activist shot dead in Philippines
Nickel mining threatens to devastate the Palawan tribe's land.© Dario Novellino An anti-mining activist has been murdered in the Philippines. Dr Gerry Ortega was shot dead four days ago on Palawan...
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Unique new photos of uncontacted Brazilian Indians
The photos reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival New photos obtained by Survival show uncontacted...
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Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacred mountain
Vedanta is still trying to get back into the Dongria Kondh's Niyamgiri Hills.© Survival International FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s...
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Outrage as construction of Belo Monte dam illegally approved
Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Verena Glass Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in...
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Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil...
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Gillian Anderson narrates unique film of uncontacted Indians
A still from new aerial footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil© BBC/FUNAI/Survival Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last...
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India’s policy of ‘integrating’ tribal people ‘disastrous’
The MP of India's Andaman Islands has called for Jarawa children to be 'weaned' away from the tribe in order to 'drastically mainstream' them.© Salomé/Survival India’s Minister of Tribal Affairs,...
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Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arrest
Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador© Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE,...
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Indians call on Brazil’s President to halt Belo Monte dam
Amazon Indians protesting in Brasília against the Belo Monte dam© Amazon Watch Hundreds of people, including over 80 Amazonian Indians, gathered yesterday outside the Brazilian Congress and...
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Six indigenous children die of malnutrition in Argentina
Wichí girls, Pilcamayo River, Argentina.© Survival International An eighteen-month-old Wichí boy was one of six indigenous children in the past week to die of malnutrition in Argentina’s northern...
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Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
An Awá man stands amidst the burnt remains of his tribe's forest© Fiona Watson/Survival A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered...
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Alaskan mine site to be investigated following tribes’ petition
Open cast mines such as this one in West Papua have devastated local indigenous communities © Daniel Start/Survival A huge open-pit mine planned for Bristol Bay in south-west Alaska is to be...
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Bangladesh: Tribal people living in fear after attacks
The children of Ms Buddhapati Chakma,who was shot dead by soldiers, speak to local journalists after last year's attacks© Satrong Chakma STOP PRESS: Survival has received reports that Bengali settlers...
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Chevron found guilty of Amazon destruction
Waorani man, Ecuador© © John Wright/Survival In a historic court ruling, US oil company Chevron has been fined $8.6 billion for polluting a huge area of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Seventeen years after...
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Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
Guarani leader Marcos Veron was killed in 2003.© Joaó Ripper/Survival The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo,...
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Cartoon satire of ‘development’ launched in India
Survival's 'There you go!' can be read in two minutes.© Oren Ginzburg/Survival Survival has today launched in India a cartoon book satirizing the destruction of tribal peoples in the name of...
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Amazon Indians in London to stop dams that will destroy them
Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam© Prelazia do Xingu Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and...
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Borneo court: Penan land case can go ahead
Penan children relaxing in their rainforest home, Sarawak, Borneo.© R. Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A Malaysian court has ruled that members of the Penan tribe can sue the government and a timber company...
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