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Peru suspends devastating dam
The Asháninka tribe are protesting against another dam, Pakitzapango, planned under Peru and Brazil's energy pact.© David Dudenhoefer A mega-dam in south-east Peru has been suspended following a month...
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Yanomami celebrate health success following protests
Yanomami woman. The Yanomami are celebrating the appointment of a health coordinator for their communities© Fiona Watson/Survival Yanomami and Yekuana Indians in the Brazilian Amazon are celebrating...
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Survival launches tourist boycott of ‘human safari park’
Two Jarawa women on the Andaman trunk road© Salomé/Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott the main highway in India’s Andaman Islands – an illegal road which cuts through the land of...
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Diaries expose missionaries’ ‘spiritual war’ on uncontacted Indians
Suruwaha man and children© Survival Diary entries obtained by Survival International illustrate the historic attempt of two missionaries to contact isolated Indians in the Brazilian Amazon. The...
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Brazil confirms existence of uncontacted tribe
Uncontacted Indians' houses, Javari Valley, Brazil© Peetsa/Arquivo CGIIRC-Funai The Brazilian authorities have confirmed the existence of a group of approximately 200 uncontacted Indians in the...
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Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
Nukak woman in refugee camp near San José, Colombia.© David Hill/Survival An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes – whose numbers have already been...
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Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman tribe
Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve.© Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India’s ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the...
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Bushmen boycott census
Bushman, Molathwe Mokalake in the New Xade, Botswana.© Dominick Tyler/Survival Bushmen in Botswana have announced plans to boycott the national census in protest against the government’s refusal to...
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Case against Amazon Indian leader ‘closed’
Indigenous rights leader and AIDESEP president, Alberto Pizango.© AIDESEP A two-year legal case against the leader of Peru’s Amazon Indian organisation has been shelved. Alberto Pizango was forced...
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Nharo Bushmen face eviction tomorrow
Bushman woman, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © Stephen Corry/Survival Nharo Bushmen in south-west Botswana will be forcefully evicted from their land tomorrow, according to national newspaper The Voice. The...
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UN fails uncontacted Indians
Members of an Ayoreo family contacted in 2004.© GAT The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. Leaders of the...
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Tour operators oppose human safaris
Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road© Survival The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal...
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Innu agreement signed while the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit Canada
Innu children © Serge Jauvin/Survival The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have visited Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories. According to reports, they were met by Inuit and Chipewyan drummers...
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Brazilian Indian killed next to roadside camp
Guarani woman from Apyka'y community, camped on the roadside© Fiona Watson/Survival A Guarani man in Brazil has been run over and killed by a bus on the highway next to which his community has been...
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Santander Bank admits dam funding to continue
The Santo Antonio dam threatens to devastate the forest home of numerous tribal peoples© João Zinclar Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has admitted that its controversial financing of the notorious...
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Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
A Penan man in the Borneo rainforest.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their...
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Brazilian Indians receive death threats
Almir Surui, Surui indigenous spokesman© Marc Cowan/Survival Indians of the Surui tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, who are campaigning for their land to be protected, have received death threats from...
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Peru’s ‘final attempt’ to stamp out uncontacted tribes
Raya, a Nahua elder. More than half his people were wiped out after their land was opened up for oil exploration.© Johan Wildhagen/Survival Peru’s Indian Affairs Department has revealed plans to open...
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Brazil to ‘do to Indians what Australia did to Aboriginals’
A Kayapó indigenous man. The Kayapó tribe is one of many whose livelihoods will be devastated by the Belo Monte dam.© Antonio Bonsorte/Amazon Watch A Brazilian government official has suggested that...
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Vedanta: time to give up on Niyamgiri mine
Protesters gathered outside Vedanta's 2011 AGM.© Survival FTSE100 company Vedanta Resources faced vocal protests from Survival and other groups telling the company to give up on their notorious...
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