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Good news: Guarani return to their ancestral land as rancher leaves
The Guarani of Pyelito Kuê community have returned to part of their ancestral land, forcing out a rancher. © SurvivalA Guarani community in Brazil has managed to return to a small part of its ancestral...
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Concern mounts over humanitarian crisis in Lower Omo, Ethiopia
The Gibe III dam is set to destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people.© SurvivalPoliticians in Europe and America are adding their voices to the international concern about the Gibe III...
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David Beckham meets ‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’
David Beckham met Yanomami shaman and spokesperson Davi Kopenawa on his recent trip to Brazil.© Nenzinho SoaresDavid Beckham has visited the Yanomami tribe in Brazil in the run-up to the 2014 World...
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The dark side of Brazil: Oil giant Petrobras moves into 'deepest Amazon'
The Suruwaha are an isolated tribe, highly vulnerable to introduced diseases.© Adriana Huber/SurvivalBrazilian state oil company Petrobras has started exploring for oil and gas in one of the most...
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U.S. State Department calls marginalization of Bushmen a ‘principal human...
Kebonyeng Kepese has been arrested and beaten for hunting to feed his family.© SurvivalThe U.S. State Department has issued a damning report labelling the Botswana Government’s discrimination against...
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UN Special Rapporteur’s last report to Peru highlights failings over Camisea...
Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalIn his final report to Peru, United Nations...
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Botswana’s hunting ban: Bushmen starve, trophy hunters carry on
Bushmen hunting with spear, for food. 'You talk to him and look into his eyes. And then he knows he must give you his strength so your children can live.’© Philippe Clotuche/SurvivalIs this an April...
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Landmark victory for the Ogiek
Ogiek, Kenya © SurvivalAfter eighteen years of struggle, the Kenyan courts have finally ruled in favour of the Ogiek, one of Africa’s last hunter-gatherer tribes. Hundreds of families were evicted...
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Uncontacted Indians ‘abandoned to their fate’ as loggers and drug smugglers...
Uncontacted Indians in Brazil near the recently-photographed group. (2008)© Gleison Miranda/FUNAISurvival International warned today that the uncontacted Amazon Indians recently photographed from the...
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Operation Awá: most invaders removed from tribal land
Hundreds of soldiers, police and government agents form the operation's ground squad. © Mário Vilela/FUNAIOver 60% of the illegal invaders on the land of the Awá tribe have now been evicted in a...
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Protestors call for the release of Papuan political prisoners in Indonesia
Protestors called today for the immediate release of all Papuan political prisoners.© Helen Saunders/SurvivalAround 100 protestors demonstrated today outside the Indonesian embassy in London to call...
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Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh – rapists act with impunity
Chakma family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Tribes in this region are under threat from settlers and the Bangladesh army where killings, torture and rape are common.© Mark...
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Mysterious epidemic kills recently-contacted tribe one by one
Parojnai Picanerai healthy on the day he was contacted in 1998 (left), and gravely ill with a TB-like illness in 2007 (right). He died of the disease in 2011.© V. Regehr/J. MazowerA mysterious epidemic...
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Bushman travels 5,000 miles to tell Prince Charles ‘We’re not poachers’
Jumanda Gakelebone, a Bushman from the Central Kalahari, is appealing to Prince Charles to help save the Bushmen.© Survival InternationalA Bushman from the Central Kalahari is traveling 5,000 miles...
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Police close 'private militia' firm following Guarani murders
Gaspem guard. Brazilian police have closed down the firm, labelled a 'private militia' by public prosecutors.© GaspemBrazilian police have closed down a notorious security firm accused of killing at...
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Bushman travels 5,000 miles to tell Prince Charles ‘We’re not poachers’
Jumanda Gakelebone, a Bushman from Botswana, sent a letter from the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari to Prince Charles today, telling him that the Bushmen are not poachers, they hunt...
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Caught on video - Gunmen terrorize Brazilian Indians
New video footage shows gunmen driving past a Guarani community and firing shots at the Indians© Aty GuasuA violent gang of gunmen who have been terrorizing a community of Brazilian Indians since they...
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Uruguay ratifies international law for indigenous peoples’ rights
Indigenous peoples make up around 5% of Uruguay's population, and include Guarani Indians (Guarani woman and her child pictured in Brazil). © João Ripper/SurvivalUruguay has pledged to ratify the...
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'Dalai Lama of the Rainforest' arrives in USA on Earth Day
This is a rare opportunity to hear Amazonian shaman Davi Kopenawa speak during his visit to California. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalOn Earth Day today, a Brazilian Indian shaman and spokesman of the...
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Campaign victory saves Earth's most threatened tribe
The campaign to save Earth's most threatened tribe has triumphed as Brazil announced that all illegal invaders have been expelled from the Awá territory.© Survival In an unprecedented victory in the...
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