Progress Can Kill – Peru’s new government warned
Survival's 'Progress Can Kill' highlights the dangers of forcing 'development' on tribal peoples. © Survival Peru’s new government will take office today having received a stark warning of the...
View ArticleMalaysia’s King at eco awards as Sarawak’s forests destroyed
Deforestation caused by loggers in a Penan region in Borneo, Malaysia.© Andy and Nick Rain/Survival The King of Malaysia and HRH the Prince of Wales attended a reception in London yesterday on behalf...
View ArticleGriff Rhys Jones models for Survival
Griff Rhys Jones modelling Jimmy Pike T-shirt for Survival© Survival Comedian, actor, presenter and author Griff Rhys Jones models Survival’s new T-shirt by internationally acclaimed Aboriginal artist...
View Article100 years on - the unsolved mystery of the rubber boom slaves
Omarino and Ricudo, two Witoto slaves brought to the UK in 1911© Cambridge University MAA An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to...
View ArticleBBC & Travel Channel show ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’
Matsigenka girls, Peru© G Shepard/ Survival A TV series about an Amazonian tribe has been slammed as ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’ by experts on the tribe. ‘Mark & Olly: Living with...
View ArticleTour companies join tourist boycott of human safaris
Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road© Survival In a major step forward, two leading tour companies in India’s Andaman Islands have come out in support of the call for tourists to boycott the...
View ArticleNine tribal facts for August 9
Korowai man and child, Papua. Tribal people in New Guinea were some of the world's earliest farmers.© Survival August 9th is the UN Day of indigenous people. To celebrate, here are 9 little-known...
View ArticleGuard post for uncontacted Indians over-run by “drug traffickers”
José Carlos Meirelles and Brazilian police at FUNAI 's remote outpost on the Envira river, invaded by drug traffickers.© Maria Emília Coelho The Brazilian guard post protecting the uncontacted Indians...
View ArticleWorld marks UN indigenous day
Chakma family from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. Members of the Jumma tribe are protesting in Brussels and Paris. © Mark McEvoy/Survival Survival, countless indigenous organizations and...
View ArticlePersecution of Paraguay Indians exposed to UN
Members of the Paraguayan Ayoreo-Totobiegosode group on the day they were contacted for the first time, in 2004.© GAT UN officials have been warned of the imminent threat against the lives of...
View ArticleBrazil bolsters security as ‘crisis situation’ threatens uncontacted Indians
The FUNAI base which was over-run by suspected drug traffickers.© Maria Emília Coelho/ Survival The Brazilian government says it will dispatch National Security Force agents to help protect a tribe of...
View ArticleLand at last for Paraguay Indians
An Enxet child in Paraguay© Jonathan Mazower/Survival Almost 9,000 hectares of ancestral land has been returned to Enxet Indians in Paraguay, more than a decade after their campaign to reclaim it...
View Article‘Staged’ tribal TV series spurs Ethical Code for filmmakers
Filmmakers have a responsibility to portray tribal people fairly.© Survival Following the recent furore over the BBC and Travel Channel’s ‘staged’ tribal TV series, Survival International has released...
View ArticleInnu protest at mineral exploration project in vital hunting grounds
The area targeted by Cap-Ex Ventures is a vital hunting ground for the Innu© Dominick Tyler/Survival One of the largest Innu communities in Quebec, eastern Canada, is embroiled in a row with an...
View ArticleAmazon pipeline gets go-ahead amid reports of ‘cover-up’
Oil industry barges are a constant sight on the rivers of northern Peru© Survival A 200km oil pipeline in the Amazon has been given the go-ahead, amidst controversy over a ‘cover-up’ of evidence that...
View ArticleInternational condemnation of controversial Ethiopian dam grows
The Mursi are one of the tribes living along the Omo Valley.© Eric Lafforgue/Survival Kenyan MPs and the UN’s World Heritage Committee have called on Ethiopia to halt construction of the controversial...
View ArticleGunmen destroy indigenous camp, Brazil
Guarani man. Gunmen have invaded a Guarani camp in Brazil.© Joaó Ripper/Survival Gunmen have invaded an indigenous Guarani camp in Brazil. The invaders are reported to have destroyed the Guarani’s...
View ArticleUN more worried about its logo than human rights abuse
A Totobiegosode woman after she was forced out of the forest, Paraguayan Chaco.© Ruedi Suter/Survival STOP PRESS August 31st, 2011 Yaguarete has now reinstated the UN Global Compact logo on its...
View ArticleLiving the longest – indigenous Brazilian celebrates 121st birthday
Maria Lucimar Pereira of the Kaxinawá tribe is thought to be the oldest person in the world© INSS/Survival Survival has located a Brazilian Indian, believed to be the oldest living person in the...
View ArticleAnti-extinction campaign launched to protect 35 Colombian tribes
Young Nukak girl and her sister© David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak,...
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