Yanomami Indians seize plane in health protest (tags)
Yanomami Indians in the Brazilian Amazon have captured an airplane used by health workers, in protest at corruption within the health service.
Death threat from Shell supplier on Brazilian tribe's land (tags)
A Brazilian rancher supplying sugarcane to a joint venture partner of energy giant Shell has reportedly issued a death threat against a political opponent.
Tension mounts as Brazilian Indians retake land (tags)
A community of Guarani Indians in Brazil has retaken part of its ancestral land in an act of desperation, having lived by the side of a highway for a year and a half.
WikiLeaks: India's tribes "exploited and abused" (tags)
American diplomats consider the Indian government "unwilling and unable" to "end the exploitation and victimisation" of the country's 84 million tribal people according to secret cables released by The Hindu newspaper.
Oil giant ConocoPhillips ?pulls out? of controversial Amazon project (tags)
US oil giant ConocoPhillips has reportedly announced it is pulling out of the controversial oil block 39 in the northern Peruvian Amazon.
Government U-turn halts tribal eviction from India?s national parks (tags)
The Indian government has scrapped its controversial policy of expelling tribal people from wildlife-rich areas to turn them into national parks.
US human rights report shines spotlight on Penan tribe (tags)
A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging.
Uncontacted Indians: report exposes ‘untold story’ of Repsol’s exploration (tags)
Oil giant Repsol-YPF could be threatening the existence of two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to a damning new report by Survival International.
Ranchers caught red-handed – from space (tags)
Wealthy landowners in Paraguay have been caught red-handed after newly-released satellite images showed their startling destruction of almost 4,000 hectares of forest – which is inhabited by uncontacted Indians.
World Health Day: Uncontacted tribes at risk of massive population loss (tags)
Survival International has warned on the eve of World Health Day (April 7) that uncontacted tribes face massive population loss if their land is not protected.
Rwandan ‘anti-thatch’ campaign leaves thousands of ‘Pygmies’ homeless (tags)
A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa ‘Pygmies’ homeless.
Indians take on Amazon loggers (tags)
Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action.
Amazon tribe’s unique fishing ritual could be their last (tags)
The Enawene Nawe tribe of Brazil have begun their unique annual fishing ritual, amid fears that the 80 dams planned for the Juruena river basin are destroying their fish.
Borneo tribes: 30-year regime ‘has destroyed everything’ (tags)
Tribespeople in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, say the 30-year rule of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud has ‘raped’ their land, destroyed their rainforests and brought ‘hardship and suffering’.
World Water Day: Global outrage over Ethiopia mega-dam (tags)
Almost 400 organizations have signed a petition against Africa’s tallest dam, which will be delivered to Ethiopian embassies across Europe and the United States to mark World Water Day on Tuesday March 22nd.
Horrific treatment of Amazon Indians exposed 100 years ago today (tags)
30,000 Amazon Indians were enslaved, tortured, raped and starved in just 12 years during the rubber boom, according to a historic report submitted by Irish investigator Roger Casement, 100 years ago today.
Peru admits timber certificates faked in secret cable (tags)
Peru’s government has secretly admitted that 70-90% of its mahogany exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.
Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes (tags)
The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil.
Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation (tags)
A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009.
Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacred mountain (tags)
FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacred mountain (tags)
FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right to water (tags)
In a momentous decision, Botswana’s Court of Appeal today quashed a ruling that denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water on their ancestral lands.
Borneo indigenous leaders arrested (tags)
Police in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have arrested two indigenous leaders for possession of ‘seditious materials’.
Rancher defies court order – Brazilian Indians still hostage (tags)
A beleaguered Indian community in Brazil which has been cut off from the outside world by the rancher who has taken over their lands is still imprisoned, despite winning a recent court ruling.
International NGOs unite against oil giants (tags)
Survival has sent a letter signed by more than fifty leading NGOs to oil companies Perenco, Repsol-YPF and ConocoPhillips to demand their immediate withdrawal from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru.