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Oils spills in Peruvian Amazon devastate indigenous communities
Dozens of Peruvian tribes have seen their territories opened up to oil companies© Johan Wildhagen/SurvivalIndigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have suffered from three oil spills in two...
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'First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon' – Survival responds to new documentary
Still from footage of a recently contacted Sapanawa man, featured in the documentary© Channel Four/ Ronachan FilmsA documentary broadcast in the UK yesterday, entitled “First contact: Lost Tribe of the...
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India: Tribe set to resume David & Goliath battle with mining corporation
The Dongria unanimously rejected the mining project and have vowed to protect the Niyamgiri hills© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalA tribe in eastern India are facing a new threat from mining on their ancestral...
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Survival calls for end to Botswana’s Bushman "apartheid”
Most Bushmen are still forced to live in government resettlement camps, rather than on their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve© Dominick TylerSurvival International has launched a campaign...
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Peru: Mercury poisoning “epidemic” sweeps tribe
A huge proportion of the Nahua tribe have been affected by the poisoning, which causes anemia and acute kidney problems© Johan WildhagenUp to 80% of a recently-contacted tribe in Peru have been...
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Survival reports Italian corporation to OECD over dam disaster
Up to half a million people face starvation as a result of the dam Salini has constructed on the Omo river.© Magda Rakita/SurvivalSurvival International has reported Italian engineering giant Salini to...
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Ogiek hunter-gatherer shot dead as landgrabs escalate
Stephen Munyereri was allegedly shot dead by an illegal settler in full sight of local police© PRO-HOMEA man from Kenya’s Ogiek tribe was shot dead on Sunday March 13. Stephen Munyereri was reportedly...
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Mercury poisoning of Amazon Indians: alarming new statistics revealed
Illegal miners are polluting the Yanomami and Yekuana tribes' rivers.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalNew statistics reveal alarming rates of mercury poisoning amongst the Yanomami and Yekuana tribes in the...
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Twenty years after Bushmen first petition UN, abuse continues
On March 27 1996, Roy Sesana (pictured) and John Hardbattle brought their people's plight to the UN for the first time.© Livia Monami/SurvivalMarch 27 will mark twenty years since the Central Kalahari...
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UN urged to end mercury poisoning "crisis" in South America
Goldminers have been invading Yanomami land for decades© Fiona Watson/SurvivalMercury poisoning is devastating tribal peoples across Amazonia, Survival International warned the U.N today. In a letter...
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Paraguayan response to Inter-American Commission condemned as ‘totally...
An Ayoreo woman who was forced to make contact due to her land being destroyed by bulldozers. © SurvivalSurvival International has condemned the Paraguayan government for its failure to protect...
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Jungle Book: Tribes threatened with eviction as Disney movie opens
Many Baiga have reported brutal treatment at the hands of park guards, and poverty and suffering outside their ancestral lands© Survival International, 2013As the new Jungle Book movie is released,...
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Revealed: 62 killed in Indian park hosting royals
Dozens of people have been shot on sight in Kaziranga in recent years. The park guards are immune from prosecution.© SurvivalThe National Park and tiger reserve that Prince William and Katherine will...
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Dongria tribe's views to be heard in Indian Supreme Court
© SurvivalIndia’s Supreme Court has blocked the opening moves in an attempt by Odisha’s state government to begin mining in the Niyamgiri hills, home to the Dongria Kondh tribe. The Supreme Court...
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Survival launches "Stop Brazil’s Genocide" campaign in Olympic year
The Guarani Kaiowá face brutal violence and the theft of their ancestral land, and suffer from the highest suicide rate in the world.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalSurvival International has launched a...
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Victory! Survival campaign to save uncontacted Indians triumphs!
The Kawahiva have been forced to live on the run in the Amazon for years. This image is a still taken from footage filmed by a Brazilian government task force during a chance encounter© FUNAIAfter...
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Mining and mercury poisoning threaten remote Amazonian tribe
The Zo'é were first contacted in 1982 by evangelical missionaries, and have been threatened by diseases ever since© Fiona Watson/SurvivalAuthorities in Brazil have launched a joint operation to remove...
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Uncontacted tribe faces renewed threat from “most corrupt politician in Brazil”
Jose Riva is notorious across Brazil and recently spent some time in prison© Local mediaLast week Survival’s campaign to protect an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon succeeded in securing the recognition...
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Yanomami in Venezuela demand land rights
Survival has been working with the Yanomami and campaigning for their rights for decades© Fiona Watson/SurvivalLast month Yanomami representatives in Venezuela handed in a demand to the state...
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Brazil: Good news for the Arara!
Survival has been campaigning for the rights of the Arara for decades© John Miles/SurvivalA small group of Amazon Indians has been celebrating success after a 30-year quest to protect their lands from...
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