Survival and tribal people denounce 'ludicrous' cannibal claims
The 'ludicrous and offensive' reporting of the story has dismayed tribal people around the world© Survival International Survival International has lodged a formal complaint with authorities in the UK...
View Article‘Seven dead’ after Indonesian troops storm Papuan independence rally
Violence comes exactly a year after a shocking video of Papuan men being brutally tortured by Indonesian soldiers© Survival At least seven people are feared dead after Indonesian police opened fire on...
View ArticleCelebrities back new book on tribal peoples
Stephen Corry's 'Tribal peoples for tomorrow's world' is now on sale.© Survival A groundbreaking new book which challenges many assumptions about tribal peoples – including how they are viewed and...
View ArticleBolivia cancels controversial road plans
Fishing in the Isiboro Sécure national park© Survival Bolivia’s president Evo Morales has cancelled plans to build a controversial road through a national park more than two months after protests...
View ArticlePeru fires top indigenous rights official after she blocks gas project
Peru has sacked Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo from the country's indigenous affairs organization, INDEPA© Survival Peru has fired its top indigenous affairs official after she reversed an ‘illegal’ decision...
View ArticleNew book on uncontacted Indians published
The Javari Valley is home to many uncontacted tribes, including a large group of Korubo. A small group of Korubo including this woman was contacted in 1996.© Erling Soderstrom Scott Wallace’s new...
View ArticleIndian tribe secures unprecedented rights to tiger reserve
Soliga boys play in a forest clearing in the BR Hills reserve© Shrenik Sadalgi/Survival In a landmark victory, a tribe in India has for the first time had their right to use their ancestral land...
View ArticleIndians demand action after Paraguay's 'hiding tribe' spotted
Gabide Etacori, one of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode leaders© Survival Leaders of Paraguay’s Ayoreo tribe are calling on the government to stop cattle farmers from destroying their forests after signs of...
View ArticleEthiopia – government crackdown in Omo region intensifies
The Mursi are one of the tribes that will be affected by plantations and the Gibe III dam.© Magda Rakita/ Survival Survival has received disturbing reports of a crackdown on tribal people opposed to...
View ArticleTanzania: Hadza tribe celebrates first land titles
The Hazda tribe's land titles being formally handed over at a special ceremony © Dorobo Fund for Tanzania / UCRT One of the very few hunter-gatherer tribes in east Africa has been celebrating the...
View ArticleIt’s official – the key to conservation lies with indigenous peoples
India's Soliga tribe recently secured unprecedented rights to a tiger reserve © Kalyan Varma/Survival Indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests, and conservation reserves that...
View ArticleShocking video confirms Indonesia’s brutal suppression of West Papuan rally...
The shocking footage shows Indonesian soldiers beating West Papuans © SBS TV/West Papua Media Alarming video of Indonesian forces shooting, beating and kicking civilians at a peaceful rally in West...
View ArticleIndigenous spokesman dismissed from Brazilian government
Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam© Terence Turner Megaron Txucarramãe, an indigenous spokesman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been dismissed from his post in the...
View ArticleMasked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader in shock execution
Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen, in a photo taken just two days ago.© Survival Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious...
View ArticleLeader's last words: "Take care of this land"
Nísio Gomes's last words were to his son.© Survival The last words of Nísio Gomes, the Guarani leader assassinated yesterday in southern Brazil, were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take...
View ArticleNew uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yanomami territory 20 years on
New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil© Hutukara Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created...
View ArticleFilipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees to joint mining venture
Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines.© Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on...
View ArticleThe world's original scientists' observations of climate change
The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife© Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and...
View ArticleCrackdown fears peak in West Papua 50 years after first independence call
Pro-independence protesters march in t-shirts bearing the 'Morning Star' flag© West Papua Media/Survival Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since...
View ArticleBrazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in wake of leader’s murder
Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by gunmen. © Survival© Survival Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high...
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