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Oil giant ConocoPhillips pulls out of controversial Amazon project
Crossed spears have been found in northern Peru – a warning to outsiders to stay away© Marek Wolodzko/AIDESEP US oil giant ConocoPhillips has announced it is pulling out of the controversial oil block...
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Hundreds of Brazilian Indians set up protest camp in capital
Over 700 Brazilian Indians protested in Brasília in May 2011 to urge the government to respect their rights.© CIMI Over 700 Brazilian Indians from more than 230 tribes set up camp last week in the...
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Government U-turn halts tribal eviction from India’s national parks
Children from the Bihor tribe, Jharkhand state. There are 84 million tribal people in India.© Survival The Indian government has scrapped its controversial policy of expelling tribal people from...
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Brazil bars indigenous spokeswoman from UN Forum
The Belo Monte dam threatens to devastate a vast area of the Amazon rainforest, upon which tribal peoples depend for their survival© Terence Turner The Brazilian government’s Indian Affairs...
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HIV/AIDS rates in West Papua rocket
Korowai man baking sago over the fire, West Papua.© Survival International Official figures released this month show that the number of people with HIV/AIDS in West Papua has grown by more than 30% in...
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Rwanda admits force used in anti-thatch campaign
A Batwa 'pygmy' family stand in front of their home. The roof was dismantled by local authorities under a scheme to eradicate all thatched housing in Rwanda.© COPORWA/Survival The official in charge...
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WikiLeaks: India’s tribes ‘exploited and abused’
Bhil girls. India's tribal people are 'exploited and victimized', according to the leaked cable.© Sunil Janah/Survival American diplomats consider the Indian government ‘unwilling and unable’ to ‘end...
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Swiss to investigate finances of Sarawak Chief Minister
Chief Minister Taib Mahmud was met by demonstrators when he visited the UK last year.© Survival The President of the Swiss Confederation has ordered an investigation into the assets in Swiss banks of...
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Tension mounts as Brazilian Indians retake land
Much of the Guarani's land has been stolen from them to make way for cattle ranching.© F. Watson/Survival A community of Guarani Indians in Brazil has retaken part of its ancestral land in an act of...
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Protests at UN for action on peace accord
Jummas and indigenous people from around the world call for the Chittagong Hill Tract peace treaty to be honored outside the UN in New York.© Ben Powless Jumma tribal people from Bangladesh, protested...
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Death threat from Shell supplier on Brazilian tribe’s land
Energy giant Shell's joint venture partner, Cosan, is buying sugarcane grown on Guarani land.© João Ripper/Survival A Brazilian rancher supplying sugarcane to a joint venture partner of energy giant...
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Peru in shock move to abolish uncontacted tribe’s reserve
A Murunahua man, contacted by loggers in 1995. Half his people died after initial contact. © Chris Fagan/Upper Amazon Conservancy STOP PRESS Peru’s Culture Ministry has publicly announced that the...
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Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest
Yanomami Indians protest against chaotic health situation© Hutukara/ Survival Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon have captured an airplane used by health workers, in protest at corruption within...
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Outrage as controversial Amazon mega dam approved
Hundreds of Brazilian indigenous leaders, river-dwellers and dam-affected people joined together to discuss and protest against the development of the Belo Monte dam which will devastate their way of...
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Venezuelan Indians freed from prison
Yupka family, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela© Fiona Watson/Survival Two indigenous leaders in Venezuela have been freed, after being falsely imprisoned for a year and a half. Yukpa leaders Sabino Romero...
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Gillian Anderson becomes Survival ambassador
Gillian Anderson models a T-shirt designed by Richard Long © Survival Hollywood actor and long-time Survival International supporter Gillian Anderson has become an ambassador for Survival, joining...
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Success: Peru vows to protect uncontacted tribe’s reserve
Illegal logging in Peru's Murunahua reserve is pushing the Indians into Brazil – the very area where this tribe lives.© Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s Culture Ministry has promised to protect...
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Penan hunter-gatherers to be dumped in vast oil palm plantation
The Penan depend on their forest for survival.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival More than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers will be taken from their rainforest home and dumped in a vast oil palm plantation...
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Palawan tribal leaders in capital to protest mining
Palawan child© Dario Novellino Nine traditional leaders of the Palawan tribe are in the Philippine capital, Manila, to protest against the MacroAsia company mining on their land. Members of the...
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Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail
Uncontacted Ayoreo house in the middle of a new road. The Indians abandoned it just hours before, hearing the bulldozer approach.© Survival Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land...
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