India: massive coal mining expansion in tribal forests green-lighted
Adivasi men look out on the vast PEKB coal mine that’s destroyed much of their ancestral land. Hasdeo Forest, Chhattisgarh. Its expansion has just been approved.© Vijay RamamurthyAuthorities in India...
View ArticleVenezuela and Brazil: Violence and destruction escalate in the Yanomami...
Illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Brazil, 2022.© Bruno Kelly/HAYFour Yanomami people in Venezuela – three men and one woman – were shot dead in cold blood last month by Venezuelan...
View ArticleBushmen anger as beloved elder refused burial in Botswana game reserve
ID card of Pitseng Gaoberekwe, who lived in the CKGR all his life, moved out of the reserve to be near his children towards the end of his life, and whose family are now forbidden from burying him back...
View ArticleGlobal protests mark int’l day of action to #SaveHasdeo
Protestors gather outside Indian High Commission in London to protest against coal mining in Hasdeo Forest, India, as part of a global day of solidarity.© Kristian BuusUPDATE: An international day of...
View ArticleIndia: Tiger reserve “voluntary relocations” were really forced evictions,...
Jenu Kuruba woman evicted from Nagarhole Tiger Reserve.© Survival InternationalHoney-gathering tribe protests for right to return to Nagarhole Tiger ReserveTribal people living in the famed Nagarhole...
View ArticleTanzania: Thousands of Maasai flee into the bush after dozens shot and...
Elderly Maasai man wounded in the military attack on protesters.© SurvivalThousands of Maasai people have fled their homes and escaped into the bush following a brutal police crackdown on protests...
View ArticleUS Congress takes crucial step to stop funding conservation abuses
WWF has been working in the Congo Basin for over 20 years – supporting squads who have committed violent abuse against tribal people.© WWFA landmark bill to stop US government funds financing human...
View ArticleKenya: Indigenous Sengwer say Western conservation funding will lead to...
Kenya Forest Service guards burning Sengwer houses in Embobut forest, 10 July 2020.© Elias KimaiyoIn a letter released today by Survival International, the Sengwer people from Kenya appeal to the...
View ArticleAnoushka Shankar launches new film to highlight Indigenous resistance to coal...
Award-winning musician Anoushka Shankar has narrated a new campaigning film highlighting Indigenous opposition to coal mining in the Hasdeo Forest, India. Shankar, a seven-time Grammy nominee and...
View ArticleAnglo-French oil company threatens uncontacted tribes in Peruvian Amazon
François Perrodo, chairman of Perenco, with one of the cars from his extensive personal collection. © Facebook Anglo-French oil company Perenco is lobbying Peru’s government to scrap a proposed reserve...
View ArticleA symbol of Indigenous genocide: “The Man of the Hole” dies in Brazil
The Man of the Hole looks out from his hut – a still from the film Corumbiara, by the film-maker Vincent Carelli. © Vincent Carelli An Indigenous man known as “The Man of the Hole” has died in Brazil....
View ArticleSurvival International denounces ‘inhumane’ treatment of Bushman elder’s body
ID card of Pitseng Gaoberekwe, who lived in the CKGR all his life, moved out of the reserve to be near his children towards the end of his life, and whose family are now forbidden from burying him back...
View ArticleIndigenous Amazon Guardian killed in Brazil – the sixth in recent years
Janildo Oliveira Guajajara, an Amazon Guardian, has been shot dead. © Social media A member of an Indigenous group that patrols its rainforest territory to evict illegal loggers has been shot dead –...
View ArticleSurvival International launches new guide to decolonize language in conservation
The guide to decolonize language in conservation is available to download at svlint.org/DecolonizeLanguage. © Survival A unique guide that challenges much of the “neutral” and “scientific” language...
View ArticleLeading NGOs warn 30x30 plan will ‘devastate Indigenous lives” in run-up to...
These Khadia men were thrown off their land after it was turned into a Protected Area. They lived for months under plastic sheets. Millions more face this fate if the 30% plan goes ahead. © Survival...
View ArticleBMW and Jaguar Land Rover linked to illegal deforestation in uncontacted...
Cattle ranches now occupy the Ayoreo’s land. An Ayoreo man goes hunting behind a gateway to one of the ranches: the sign reads “Private property. No Entry.” © Gerald Henzinger/Survival BMW and Jaguar...
View Article“What they said:” Survival’s rogues’ gallery of Top 5 worst statements from...
These Khadia men were thrown off their land after it was turned into a tiger reserve. They lived for months under plastic sheets. Millions more face this fate if the 30% plan goes ahead. © Survival...
View ArticleBlow for Bushman burial case in Botswana’s appeal court
Gana Bushmen and children who returned to Molapo community in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve from New Xade government resettlement camp, Botswana. © Fiona Watson/Survival Botswana’s Appeal Court has...
View ArticleCOP15 deal “has failed biodiversity and could still fail Indigenous peoples”...
Jenu Kuruba people hold signs during their protest at Nagarhole National Park, in India, where they’ve been evicted in the name of “conservation”. © Survival In a statement issued today, Survival...
View ArticleNew report reveals shocking health crisis for Brazil’s Yanomami tribe
Desperately malnourished Yanomami children, Surucucus region. © URIHI – Associação Yanomami A devastating new report has revealed the full extent of the crisis in the Yanomami territory caused by a...
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