Survival announces winners of 2020 calendar photo competition
Tibetan child, 2018© Mattia Passarini / www.mattiapassarini.comSurvival International, the global movement for tribal peoples, is delighted to announce the winning entries of its 2020 calendar photo...
View Article“Stop Brazil’s Genocide”: protestors target Brazil’s Minister Salles during...
Protestors at the Brazilian Embassy in London, October 2019© Eleanor K. Russell/Survival InternationalProtestors gathered outside Brazil’s Embassy in the UK today, demanding that Environment Minister...
View ArticleIndigenous organization slams Brazilian government and evangelical missionaries
The Javari Valley is home to over 5,000 indigenous people© Erling Söderström/SurvivalUNIVAJA– the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley – has issued a statement criticizing the Brazilian...
View ArticleBrazilian experts warn of uncontacted tribes “genocide” after sacking of...
Bruno Pereira (center) has been sacked. Experts say his dismissal represents yet another backwards step in the policy to protect uncontacted tribes.© FUNAITop Brazilian experts have released a damning...
View ArticleSurvival promotes #TribalVoice at the Amazon Synod in Rome
Indigenous leaders Adriano Karipuna, José Luis Cassupa and Hozana Puruborá – visiting Rome during the Amazon Synod – tell President Bolsonaro to protect indigenous land alongside Survival...
View ArticleEXPOSED: WWF execs KNEW they were funding rights abuses in Africa, but kept...
A Baka woman from the Republic of Congo. WWF-funded rangers have killed, raped and tortured Baka and Bayaka people.© SurvivalA new and devastating investigation by Buzzfeed News has revealed that the...
View ArticleAmazon Guardian killed, another shot, as loggers attack in Brazil
Paulo Paulino Guajajara, known as Kwahu, has been killed by loggers© Sarah Shenker/Survival InternationalAn indigenous Amazon Guardian has been shot dead by loggers and another wounded after they were...
View ArticleRussia shuts down indigenous rights organisation
Tribal peoples in Russia, such as the reindeer herding Nenets, have borne the brunt of the exploitation of their lands for oil and gas and are often the last barrier to the destruction of the Arctic.©...
View ArticleTen Brazilian indigenous leaders protest in London
The APIB delegation hand in Survival International's Racist of the Year award for President Bolsonaro to the Brazilian Embassy, London© Rosa Gauditano/ Survival International- President Bolsonaro wins...
View ArticleIndian government scraps “dangerous” forest law after outcry
The Baiga are one of many tribes who would have been affected by the Indian government plans© SurvivalThe Indian government has scrapped a plan to militarize its forests and open them up for commercial...
View ArticleAmazon Guardians respond to killing of Paulo Paulino Guajajara
Paulo Paulino "Lobo" Guajajara, Guardian of the Amazon, was killed in an ambush by loggers.© Sarah Shenker/Survival InternationalA statement from the Guajajara Guardians of Arariboia Indigenous...
View ArticleMunduruku tribe denounces illegal mining in Brazil
Munduruku people protest in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brazil, 2018© Marcelo Camargo/Agência BrasilLeaders and representatives of the Munduruku tribe have denounced goldminers operating...
View ArticleCourt case reveals shocking details of abuse in tribal residential schools in...
Jyotsna's daughter was repeatedly drugged and raped at a Factory School in Maharashtra in 2019© SurvivalFifteen girls from a residential hostel for tribal children in Maharashtra, India, have been...
View ArticleDavi Yanomami receives 2019's “Alternative Nobel Prize”
Davi Yanomami holds the Right Livelihood award© Right Livelihood FoundationRenowned Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa, the “Dalai Lama of the Rainforest,” received this year’s Right Livelihood Award, known...
View ArticleNew report reveals tribal evictions for tiger reserves are illegal
The camp of Asankudar, where over a hundred Khadia tribal people, who were thrown out of Similipal Tiger Reserve, were forced to live for months under plastic sheets.© SurvivalA new report by Survival...
View ArticleNew images of uncontacted indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon released
Aerial footage of an uncontacted indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon. 2019© ORPIONew images of an uncontacted indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon have been released by ORPIO– The...
View Article“Brazen and shameless:” outrage as controversial Indian mining company opens...
The Chief Minister of Odisha and Priti Adani, wife of Adani’s founder, at the opening of the new Adani-KISS school, Jan 2020.© 5dariyanewsA controversial Indian mining company whose operations threaten...
View Article“Don’t fund our eviction”: honey-collecting tribe pleads with US government
Jenu Kuruba have lived with and nurtured the unique flora and fauna of Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. “For centuries we all have been living together as one: the forest, the animals and the tribes”.©...
View ArticleAmazon leaders call on Boris Johnson to “stand with us” in face of attacks
In 2019 Davi Yanomami won the Right Livelihood Award, the Alternative Nobel Prize. ©P Levinas/ Survival© Pablo Levinas/SurvivalSome of the Amazon’s most prominent indigenous leaders will hand in a...
View Article“A genocidal plan for the destruction of Brazil’s indigenous peoples”:...
Ricardo Lopes Dias, the missionary proposed as new head of FUNAI’s Uncontacted Indians Department© Ricardo Lopez DiasBrazilian President Bolsonaro’s government has proposed an evangelical missionary,...
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