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Report exposes threat to dam 'Lost World'
The Akawaio and Arekuna fish in the Mazaruni river and its tributaries. The proposed dam would flood the tribes' land and forever destroy an area famed for its scenery and bio-diversity.© Audrey Butt...
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Penan blockade continues, despite arrests
Penan children are among those blockading the Murum dam site. © Raymond Abin/SurvivalThe Penan tribe’s blockade of the Murum dam is still continuing, despite the arrest of ten Penan, including two...
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Tribal children driven to suicide and solvent abuse: new gallery for UN...
On Universal Children's Day, Survival reveals fascinating insights into tribal children, the inheritors of their tribes' ways of life, language and knowledge.© Mike GoldwaterTo mark UN Children’s Day...
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No more 'primitive' tribes: The Hindu pledges to end racist term
The Proud Not Primitive movement is celebrating its second major success in challenging negative stereotypes in the media that tribal peoples are 'backwards' or 'primitive'.© Vinayak DasThe ‘Proud Not...
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Inter-American Commission warns Peru over uncontacted tribes
The Nanti and other isolated and uncontacted tribes near the Camisea gas project are threatened by epidemics brought in by gas workers.© Survival InternationalThe Inter-American Commission on Human...
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Guarani suffer one of the highest murder rates in the world
Marçal de Souza Tupã-i was shot 30 years ago for fronting the Guarani's struggle to reclaim their ancestral land. © CIMI archive/SurvivalAhead of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of iconic...
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Exposed: fracking licenses granted in Bushmen's reserve
New revelations about fracking in the CKGR have raised fears for the survival of the last hunting Bushmen. © Survival InternationalLarge parts of Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) – home...
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Plight of Earth's most threatened tribe makes headlines worldwide
The plight of the Awá Indians is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times this month.© Vanity FairThe plight of Earth’s most threatened tribe is reaching millions of people worldwide this month, as...
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Top human rights watchdog investigates Ethiopia and Botswana
The Ethiopian government has started evicting tribes such as the Mursi from their land to make way for large-scale plantations.© SurvivalThe African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the...
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Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects announced in Paris
Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber met two katsina priests when a katsina was returned to the Hopi in July 2013. © SurvivalA French auction house has announced that it is putting up for sale a large number...
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UN urged to stop Peru's deadly oil and gas rush
The UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples has been urged to protect vulnerable uncontacted tribes in Peru, who could be decimated by contact with oil and gas workers.© Chris...
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Breaking news: Guarani leader and film-star murdered
In 2008 Ambrósio attended the premiere of 'Birdwatchers' at the Venice Film Festival.© SurvivalGuarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of...
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Waorani men arrested over killings of uncontacted Indians
Ompore Omeway, a Waorani man who was recently killed alongside his wife. © Fundación Alejandro LabakaSix Waorani Indians have been arrested over the killing last April of an unknown number of...
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Bullying tactics drive Penan to abandon dam blockade
The abandoned Long Singu longhouse last week after the government rushed through the Penan's move to the unfinished relocation site.© Raymond Abin/SurvivalMembers of the Penan tribe from the Malaysian...
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FIFA World Cup and rainforest plants: an Amazon Indian in London speaks out
Nixiwaka Yawanawá, an Amazon Indian in London, has described London as a city 'rich in history and filled with ghosts'.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a Yawanawá Indian from the Brazilian...
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Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013 – an obituary
Ambrósio Vilhalva, 1960-2013© Fiona Watson/SurvivalOne of Brazil’s most prominent indigenous leaders, Ambrósio Vilhalva, has been stabbed to death near his community in southern Brazil. He was 53....
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Robert Redford ‘delighted’ as sacred objects bought for Hopi by US foundation
In July lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber and Survival International's Jean Patrick Razon handed over a katsina to the Hopi.© SurvivalArizona’s Hopi people have welcomed the news that twenty-one of their...
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Kurt Jackson donates to Survival
Blustery Day near Oxford, May 2013, mixed media on paper, 53 x 61cm. All offers over £3,625 will be considered© Kurt JacksonLeading British artist, and Survival Ambassador, Kurt Jackson is donating the...
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Coca-Cola dragged into Brazilian Indians' land struggle
The leader of a Guarani community has sent a desperate plea for his tribe's ancestral land to be returned. © Sarah Shenker/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil have urged Coca-Cola to stop buying sugar...
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Paraguay grants license to bulldoze UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
The Ayoreo are outraged at new revelations that Paraguay has granted a license to bulldoze the last refuge of their uncontacted relatives.© Survival InternationalParaguay has caused outrage by quietly...
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