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Nine tribal facts for August 9
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:30 pm | Survival International
August 9th is the UN Day of indigenous people. To celebrate, here are 9 little-known facts from Survival International about tribal peoples. More >>
Uncontacted Indians' guard post overrun by drug traffickers
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 2:03 pm | Survival International
The Brazilian guard post protecting the uncontacted Indians who were filmed from the air earlier this year has been over-run by heavily-armed men, suspected to be drug-traffickers. It has been ransacked and vital equipment destroyed. More >>
BBC Travel show ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted'
Thursday, 4 August 2011, 1:11 pm | Survival International
A TV series about an Amazonian tribe has been slammed as ‘staged, false, fabricated and distorted’ by experts on the tribe. ‘Mark & Olly: Living with the Machigenga’ was shown on the Travel Channel in the US, and on the BBC last year. In the show ... More >>
100 years on - the unsolved mystery of the rubber boom slave
Monday, 1 August 2011, 9:56 pm | Survival International
An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to Britain a century ago. Exactly 100 years after the Daily News first introduced her ancestors Omarino and Ricudo to the British public, Fany Kuiru, a ... More >>
Peru’s ‘final attempt’ to stamp out uncontacted tribes
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 5:17 pm | Survival International
Peru’s Indian Affairs Department has revealed plans to open up uncontacted tribes' reserves to oil companies – just days before the country’s new government takes office. More >>
Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
Monday, 18 July 2011, 11:46 am | Survival International
A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest. Survival revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang as clearing forest and planting oil palm in an area ... More >>
Tour operators oppose human safaris
Friday, 8 July 2011, 5:18 pm | Survival International
The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forest of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe . More >>
UN fails uncontacted Indians
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 12:19 pm | Survival International
The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay. More >>
Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
Monday, 27 June 2011, 3:59 pm | Survival International
An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes, whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku , including nine children, have been admitted to San José del Guaviare hospital ... More >>
Sonia Gandhi stands up for endangered Andaman tribe
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 3:01 pm | Survival International
Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve. © Survival Sonia Gandhi, President of India's ruling Congress party, has strongly backed the right of the isolated Jarawa tribe not to be forced into the ... More >>
Survival launches tourist boycott of ‘human safari park’
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 1:49 pm | Survival International
Survival today called for tourists to boycott the main highway in India’s Andaman Islands – an illegal road which cuts through the land of the endangered Jarawa tribe. The Andaman Trunk Road is both illegal – India’s Supreme Court ordered ... More >>
Beef barons exposed by space pics face jail
Friday, 17 June 2011, 12:05 pm | Survival International
Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was spotted by satellites have now been charged with illegal deforestation. More >>
Tension mounts as Brazilian Indians retake land
Saturday, 28 May 2011, 12:56 pm | Survival International
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. More >>
WikiLeaks: India’s tribes ‘exploited and abused’
Friday, 27 May 2011, 3:28 pm | Survival International
American diplomats consider the Indian government ‘unwilling and unable’ to ‘end the exploitation and victimization’ of the country’s 84 million tribal people according to secret cables released by The Hindu newspaper. More >>
Rwanda admits force used in anti-thatch campaign
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 3:19 pm | Survival International
The official in charge of Rwanda’s controversial policy to eradicate all thatched roofs in the country by the end of this month has admitted that ‘sometimes we apply some force’. More >>
Government halts tribal eviction from India’s national parks
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 3:38 pm | Survival International
The Indian government has scrapped its controversial policy of expelling tribal people from wildlife-rich areas to turn them into national parks. More >>
Brutal attack on endangered tribe
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:17 pm | Survival International
A man from one of the world’s most endangered tribes has been attacked and seriously wounded trying to stop intruders hunting his tribe’s game. The police are treating the attack as attempted murder. Three men have been arrested over the incident. More >>
Santander Bank suspends funding of controversial Brazil dam
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:50 am | Survival International
Europe’s largest bank, Santander, has suspended its funding for Brazil’s hugely controversial Santo Antonio dam, citing environmental and social concerns. More >>
US human rights report shines spotlight on Borneo tribe
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 9:57 am | Survival International
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. More >>
Borneo tribe denied vote in crucial elections
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 1:35 pm | Survival International
Thousands of Penan tribespeople will be unable to vote in crucial elections on Saturday in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, because they do not have identity cards. More >>
