Amazon Indian leaders shot dead by suspected illegal loggers
Ashéninka leaders Edwin Chota was murdered on 1 September 2014 by suspected illegal loggers.© Scott WallaceFour Ashéninka Indian leaders, renowned for their work against illegal logging in the Amazon,...
View ArticleStop importing Paraguayan beef: Russian restaurants warned
The destruction of the Ayoreo’s forest for beef production threatens to wipe out the uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode.© Survival InternationalRussia’s top restaurants have been urged to stop using beef...
View ArticleAmazon Indian 'army' takes on illegal loggers
Ka'apor Indians have formed an indigenous 'army' to combat illegal logging in their forest© SurvivalKa’apor Indians in the Amazon rainforest have formed an indigenous “army” to combat illegal invasions...
View ArticleSurvival announces winners of 45th anniversary photographic competition
Striking portrait of an Asurini do Tocantins man, the winning entry of Survival International's 45th anniversary photo competition.© Giordano Cipriani / Survival InternationalSurvival International,...
View ArticleAmazon Indian protests outside Jimmy Nelson photo exhibition in London
Nixiwaka Yawanawá protested against the 'outrageous' exhibition of Jimmy Nelson's work at London's Atlas Gallery today, wearing his ceremonial headdress.© Sophie Pinchetti/SurvivalAn Amazon Indian...
View ArticleAyoreo Indians protest at government inaction over illegal deforestation
Ayoreo Indians protest against Yaguareté Porã S.A. which is rapidly destroying their forest home for beef production. © GATRelatives of the last uncontacted Indians outside Amazonia held a protest on...
View ArticleAmazon Indian family makes first contact
Korubo Indians contacted in the mid-1990s. Another Korubo family made first contact earlier this month.© Erling Soderstrom/SurvivalA family of uncontacted Korubo Indians has made contact with a settled...
View ArticleBotswana President shamed by Bushman protest at election rally
The Bushmen protested at an election rally of President Ian Khama, demanding the right to hunt to feed their families be upheld (archive image). © Survival InternationalBotswana’s President Ian Khama...
View ArticlePeru reacts to urgent calls to protect uncontacted tribe’s land
In September 2014 an Adventist priest made contact with uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians and left clothes and food for them, putting them at extreme risk of contracting fatal diseases to which they have...
View ArticleCameroon: WWF complicit in tribal people’s abuse
Baka in southeast Cameroon face serious abuse at the hands of anti-poaching squads supported and funded by WWF. © Selcen Kucukustel/AtlasSurvival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’...
View ArticleChabu hunter-gatherers in Ethiopia killed by settlers
Violence against the Chabu has been described as an 'emerging genocide' by experts.© Samuel Jilo DiraMembers of a hunter-gatherer tribe are reportedly being hunted down and killed by settlers who are...
View Article"Stop destroying the Earth's lungs", Amazon Indians plead in Europe
Davi Yanomami sold and signed dozens of copies of his groundbreaking book, 'The Falling Sky'.© Camila Almeida/Survival InternationalAmazon Indian leaders Davi Yanomami and Mauricio Yekuana have...
View ArticleHundreds of Bushmen abused in Botswana – new report
Mogolodi Moeti is just one of hundreds of Bushmen to have suffered abuse by wildlife officers and police. He said, 'They told me that even if they kill me no charges would be laid against them because...
View ArticleColumbus Day: genocide of America's tribes continues
Aché woman shortly after she was captured and brought out of the forest in 1972, Paraguay. In April, the Aché launched a landmark case over the genocide they suffered.© A. Kohmann/Survival To mark...
View ArticleIndia: Tiger Reserve tribe faces eviction
The Khadia were evicted from Similipal Tiger Reserve in December 2013, and have been living in miserable conditions under plastic sheets. © Survival InternationalTribespeople living inside a tiger...
View Article"We'll die for our lands", Guarani Indians declare in Brazil's capital
Forty Guarani leaders traveled over 1,000 km to Brasília to insist that the authorities map out their ancestral land.© CIMIForty Guarani Indian leaders have traveled over 1,000 km to Brazil’s capital...
View ArticleSurvival calls for release of journalists and political prisoners in West Papua
Papuan tribal people have suffered immensely from Indonesian military brutality since 1963.© SurvivalFrench journalists Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat face trial by the Indonesian authorities in...
View ArticleTragedy strikes Colombia’s Sierra Nevada Indians
Arhuaco Indians, Colombia © Survival InternationalA series of tragic events has hit Colombia’s Arhuaco, Kogi and Wiwa tribes in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of northern Colombia. On 6...
View ArticleEden Project photo exhibition showcases tribal people of the rainforest
Sebastião Salgado's stunning images of the Awá tribe in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, taken in 2013, will be showcased in the Rainforest Biome of the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK. The Awá are finding it...
View ArticleTribes and farmers unite to end oil palm expansion in Philippines
Oil palm plantations have taken over land that the Palawan used to grow coconuts.© ALDAWTribal people and small-scale farmers in the Philippine province of Palawan have called for a halt to the...
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