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UN Publishes Landmark Guidelines To Combat Human Rights Abuses In Conservation
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 11:13 pm | Survival International
The guidelines were prompted by repeated revelations that big conservation corporations are responsible for grave human rights abuses against Indigenous peoples whose lands have been taken for Protected Areas. More >>
Intimidation And Abuses Fuel Fears Of Prince Harry Charity Investigation “Whitewash”
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 12:07 pm | Survival International
The abuses, including beatings, torture and rape, have been committed by rangers employed by African Parks, against the Indigenous Baka people whose ancestral forest has been taken over by the park. They triggered a global media outcry. More >>
Peru: Loggers Killed In Mashco Piro Attack, Others Wounded/Disappeared
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 6:11 pm | Survival International
In second attack, two loggers have been killed, one wounded and two are missing. More >>
India’s Indigenous Peoples Rise Up Against Evictions From Tiger Reserves
Sunday, 22 September 2024, 3:12 pm | Survival International
Almost 700 Adivasi people from 25 villages protested at the entrance gates of Nagarhole in Karnataka state, one of India’s best-known tiger reserves. Close to 400,000 Adivasis face eviction from tiger reserves across India. More >>
New Images Show Uncontacted Tribe Dangerously Close To Logging Concessions In Peru
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 4:52 am | Survival International
Campaigners say they’re a graphic illustration of the urgent need to revoke all the logging licenses in the area, and recognize that the territory belongs to the Mashco Piro people, which Survival believes is the largest uncontacted tribe in the ... More >>
Indonesian Senate Leader: Protect Uncontacted Tribe From Nickel Mining
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 4:02 am | Survival International
Senate Leader AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, a close ally of President-elect Prabowo, said Hongana Manyawa people should be protected from nickel mining on their land. He urged the government to “immediately intervene to provide protection to the ... More >>
Indian Experts Say Mega-project Will Lead To Uncontacted Island Tribe's "Extinction"
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 5:33 am | Survival International
A group of renowned Indian experts on the Indigenous peoples in the region have written an open letter to the Indian government, demanding that the controversial Great Nicobar Development Project be scrapped. More >>
New Report Accuses UNESCO Of Complicity In The Eviction And Abuse Of Indigenous People
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:52 am | Survival International
On-the-ground investigations by Survival researchers, in Indigenous communities across Africa and Asia, have uncovered repeated cases of torture, rape, and killings of Indigenous people in and around World Heritage Sites. More >>
25 Years On: Uncontacted Tribe Left To The Mercy Of Armed Loggers And Violent Gangs
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 5:22 am | Survival International
Many Kawahiva are known to have been killed by loggers and ranchers in recent decades. Others have died from diseases the outsiders have brought in. Those that survive are the last of the Kawahiva. More >>
Brazil: Crisis In Yanomami Territory, One Year After Operation To Remove Goldminers
Thursday, 18 January 2024, 9:20 am | Survival International
Experts have warned that an acute health crisis is ravaging the Yanomami people in Brazil’s northern Amazon, one year on from a major government operation intended to rid the area of illegal goldminers. Figures from the official health service in ... More >>
Carbon Credits Fever “now As Big A Threat To Indigenous Lands As Logging And Mining”
Sunday, 3 December 2023, 6:45 pm | Survival International
As COP28 prepares to pave the way for a massive expansion in the market for carbon credits, campaigners have warned that they now represent “as big a threat to Indigenous lands as logging and mining.” Indigenous rights organization Survival International ... More >>
India: As New Film Is Released On The Sentinelese, Their Uncontacted Neighbors Face Destruction
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 6:12 am | Survival International
As a National Geographic documentary about the death of missionary John Allen Chau at the hands of the uncontacted Sentinelese people is released, campaigners have warned that the imminent destruction of their little-known neighbors, the Shompen ... More >>
Kawahiva Lands Not Protected Despite Ten Years Of Video Proof Of Their Existence
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 6:01 am | Survival International
Ten years on: uncontacted tribe in danger as land protection stalls Ten years after Brazilian authorities released extraordinary footage showing the existence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, their lands have still not been fully protected – ... More >>
Tanzania Prevents MEPs From Investigating Maasai Abuses
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 6:48 pm | Survival International
Tanzania has prevented a delegation of MEPs from visiting the country, despite previously agreeing to allow them in to investigate human rights abuses against the Maasai in the name of conservation. The Greens/European Free Alliance group of MEPs has called ... More >>
Ecuador: Victory For Uncontacted Tribes As Oil Drilling Blocked In Historic Referendum
Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 6:32 am | Survival International
In a historic referendum, people in Ecuador have voted to block oil drilling on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Yasuní National Park. Leonidas Iza, President of Ecuador’s national Indigenous organization CONAIE , said today: "The Ecuadorian ... More >>
French Government Scraps Funding Plan For Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Citing Human Rights Concerns
Friday, 21 July 2023, 6:47 am | Survival International
German government ignores requests to cancel its own funding In a landmark decision, the French government has scrapped its plan to fund the controversial Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The park is famed for its ... More >>
Peru & Brazil’s Indigenous People Join Forces To Combat “Genocide Bill”
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 6:35 am | Survival International
An Indigenous delegation from Brazil has flown to Peru to join forces with Indigenous organizations there in a desperate bid to stop a Congressional bill known as the “ Genocide Bill .” The bill, being pushed by Congressional allies of Peru’s ... More >>
Kenya’s Borana People Denounce “Skullduggery” Over Carbon Credit Scheme Used By Netflix And Meta
Friday, 31 March 2023, 6:54 pm | Survival International
March 30, 2023 One of the Kenyan Indigenous peoples affected by a notorious carbon trading scheme used by Netflix and Meta has issued a strongly-worded denunciation of the project. The Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project (NKGCP) is run by the ... More >>
India: Tribal Peoples Denounce Protected Areas On Their Lands
Saturday, 25 March 2023, 5:17 am | Survival International
Hundreds of Indigenous (Adivasi) people from Protected Areas across India joined forces in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in southwest India for an unprecedented week-long protest march against the seizing of their lands to create so-called ‘Protected ... More >>
At Last! Brazil’s Government Launches Major Operation To Evict Miners From Yanomami Territory
Friday, 10 February 2023, 5:39 am | Survival International
Authorities in Brazil have launched a major operation to remove thousands of illegal goldminers from the Yanomami territory in the north of the country. Agents from the Environmental Protection Agency IBAMA and Indigenous Affairs Department FUNAI are ... More >>