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Italian Leather Industry Could Be Killing Uncontacted Indigenous People
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 8:34 pm | Survival International
Milan: Indigenous protesters link Italian leather industry to destruction of their uncontacted relatives’ forests. More >>
Tanzania: Maasai Protest UNESCO's Complicity In Their Eviction For “Conservation”
Sunday, 26 April 2026, 8:40 pm | Survival International
Eight UN experts say “conservation efforts must not come at the expense of human rights”. More >>
Tanzania: Commissions Call For Mass Eviction Of Indigenous Maasai From World-Famous Tourist Destinations
Friday, 20 March 2026, 10:06 pm | Survival International
The authorities maintain that these are “voluntary relocations.” However, the Maasai have overwhelmingly rejected being moved. More >>
Indigenous Protester Tells French Mining Giant: “Stop The Mining Or My People Will Die"
Friday, 28 November 2025, 5:35 pm | Survival International
Ngigoro and protesters from Survival International and Canopée demonstrated today outside the Eramet HQ – the company operates the world’s biggest nickel mine, on Hongana Manyawa land. More >>
Richard Gere Blasts The Industrial World For Treating Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples As “Collateral Damage”
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 9:22 am | Survival International
Survival confirmed there are 196 groups of uncontacted peoples living in 10 countries across the world — and all are threatened. More >>
Pressure Mounts On Indian Government Over “Genocidal” Great Nicobar Mega-Project
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 5:38 pm | Survival International
Last year 39 international genocide experts wrote to the Indian President, describing the mega-project as a "death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide". They called for the scheme to be immediately abandoned. More >>
Pressure Mounts On Indian Government Over “Genocidal” Great Nicobar Mega-Project
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 5:37 pm | Survival International
Last year 39 international genocide experts wrote to the Indian President, describing the mega-project as a "death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide". They called for the scheme to be immediately abandoned. More >>
Maasai Demand Volkswagen Pull Out Of Carbon Offset Scheme On Their Lands
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 7:38 am | Survival International
In a statement, the Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) denounced the “loss of control or use” of vital Maasai grazing grounds, and accused VW of making “false and misleading claims” about Maasai participation in decision making about ... More >>
Indonesia: Presidential Visit For New EV Battery Factory Is “a Disaster For Uncontacted Indigenous People”
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 5:19 pm | Survival International
The government calls the planned facility, “the world’s first upstream-downstream car battery ecosystem” — meaning the entire process from mining and refining nickel to battery manufacturing will happen on Halmahera. More >>
India: Police Raid Indigenous Village Inside Tiger Reserve
Friday, 20 June 2025, 1:13 pm | Survival International
Jenu Kuruba people were violently evicted from Nagarhole 40 years ago to make way for a tiger reserve. More than 50 families returned on May 5 to live in their former village and to assert their claims in accordance with India’s Forest Rights Act. More >>
India: Evicted Tribe Re-Occupies Their Homes Inside Famous Tiger Reserve
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 6:21 pm | Survival International
It’s believed to be the first time Indigenous people in India have asserted their rights in this way, and returned en masse to their homes after being evicted from a Protected Area. More >>
New Report: Indian Government Plans Spell Disaster For Uncontacted Island Tribe
Friday, 18 April 2025, 9:24 am | Survival International
It warns that the uncontacted Shompen people, who live only on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean, will not survive if the Great Nicobar Development Project goes ahead. More >>
Attempted Contact With The Sentinelese Tribe: Survival International Response
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 12:29 pm | Survival International
The Sentinelese have made their wish to avoid outsiders incredibly clear over the years – I’m sure many remember the 2018 incident in which an American missionary, John Allen Chau, was killed by them after landing on their island to try to convert ... More >>
New Travel Company Launches: Africa Without The Africans
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 11:54 am | Survival International
Colonial Holidays is a joint venture between exclusive tour operators and the conservation organizations WWF, WCS, The Nature Conservancy and African Parks. More >>
Brazil: Experts Alarmed By Landgrabbers And Settlers As Uncontacted Man Emerges From The Forest
Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 9:51 pm | Survival International
There is mounting pressure on the forest from illegal hunting, fishing and land grabbers in the region. More >>
Landmark Court Ruling Delivers Devastating Blow To Flagship Carbon Offset Project
Friday, 31 January 2025, 7:38 pm | Survival International
The ruling, in a case brought by 165 members of affected communities, affirms that two of the biggest conservancies set up by the controversial Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) have been established unconstitutionally and have no basis in law. More >>
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 >>
