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Awá: Top human rights watchdog demands answers from Brazil
The Awá tribe is being driven towards extinction by Brazil's failure to protect its forest. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human...
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EU beef imports threaten uncontacted Indians
Yaguarete has bulldozed a new track (labelled 'picada identificada' on this photo) through uncontacted Indians' forest. They plan to clear everything to the right of this track.© GATForest inhabited by...
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Brazil: Female chief leads re-occupation of ancestral land after her three...
The Guarani Apy Ka'y community has returned to its ancestral land currently occupied by a sugar cane plantation, amidst threats of death by gunmen.© Tonico Benites/SurvivalGuarani Indians have carried...
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International condemnation of Botswana over Bushmen
Botswana has been condemned for barring the Bushmen's lawyer ahead of a key court case. He had successfully defended the Bushmen's rights during three previous cases.© SurvivalThe Botswana government...
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Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with arrests
A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe...
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Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite government whitewash
Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.©...
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Another casualty of ‘progress’: Ayoreo TB epidemic claims latest victim
Chiri had suffered grave health problems after being forced from his forest home.© SurvivalChiri Etacore, an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died...
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Guarani Indians fear imminent bloodshed
Guarani man. Gunmen have taken up positions around a Guarani community, and fired shots.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil fear imminent bloodshed as gunmen known to have assassinated...
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Yanomami shaman publishes unique book 'The Falling Sky'
'The Falling Sky' is a unique book by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa.© Harvard University PressIn the first book ever written by a Yanomami Indian, Davi Kopenawa – shaman and leading spokesman for his...
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Protestors call for Botswana boycott at World Travel Market
Protestors called for a tourism boycott of Botswana at the opening of the World Travel Market in London today.© Charli Botha/SurvivalAt today’s opening of the World Travel Market in London, supporters...
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Yanomami denounce illegal miners and lack of health care
Yanomami Indians have expressed their serious concern about illegal mining on their land© VICTOR ENGLEBERT /SURVIVALYanomami Indians from Brazil and Venezuela met last month in Venezuela to discuss...
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Loggers face removal from land of Earth's most threatened tribe
The Awá have been driven to the brink of extinction as waves of illegal loggers, settlers and ranchers have flooded their land.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalBrazil has taken the first steps towards the...
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Prosecutors issue urgent order for Enawene Nawe land rights
The Enawene Nawe have been demanding for years that their full territory be returned to them© Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazil’s Public Prosecutors’ Office has threatened the government’s indigenous affairs...
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Sebastião Salgado and Vanity Fair highlight plight of ‘Earth's most...
Vanity Fair magazine has teamed up with renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado to highlight the plight of the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe.© Vanity FairWorld-famous Brazilian photographer...
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Report exposes threat to dam 'Lost World'
The Akawaio and Arekuna fish in the Mazaruni river and its tributaries. The proposed dam would flood the tribes' land and forever destroy an area famed for its scenery and bio-diversity.© Audrey Butt...
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Penan blockade continues, despite arrests
Penan children are among those blockading the Murum dam site. © Raymond Abin/SurvivalThe Penan tribe’s blockade of the Murum dam is still continuing, despite the arrest of ten Penan, including two...
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Tribal children driven to suicide and solvent abuse: new gallery for UN...
On Universal Children's Day, Survival reveals fascinating insights into tribal children, the inheritors of their tribes' ways of life, language and knowledge.© Mike GoldwaterTo mark UN Children’s Day...
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No more 'primitive' tribes: The Hindu pledges to end racist term
The Proud Not Primitive movement is celebrating its second major success in challenging negative stereotypes in the media that tribal peoples are 'backwards' or 'primitive'.© Vinayak DasThe ‘Proud Not...
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Inter-American Commission warns Peru over uncontacted tribes
The Nanti and other isolated and uncontacted tribes near the Camisea gas project are threatened by epidemics brought in by gas workers.© Survival InternationalThe Inter-American Commission on Human...
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Guarani suffer one of the highest murder rates in the world
Marçal de Souza Tupã-i was shot 30 years ago for fronting the Guarani's struggle to reclaim their ancestral land. © CIMI archive/SurvivalAhead of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of iconic...
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