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'Our People Are Dying, And So Is The Planet'
Friday, 21 September 2007, 11:19 am | Survival International
'We shamans are telling you the whites [to change your ways] so that the world doesn't get too hot. If you don't do this our world will become dry, there will be no water, and we will have dry mouths because the Earth will heat up.' More >>
Bushman Persecution Denounced In The Times
Friday, 21 September 2007, 11:17 am | Survival International
Just three days after Survival International re-ignited its Bushman campaign, a lengthy cover article in The Times has denounced the Botswana government's continuing refusal to honour the terms of the Bushmen's court victory. More >>
Peru: Oil Companies In 'Farcical' Megaphone Plan
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 11:42 am | Survival International
Two companies planning to explore for oil in rainforest inhabited by uncontacted tribes have revealed plans to 'communicate' with them using megaphones if their oil crews are attacked. More >>
Indigenous Peoples Declaration Approval Jubilation
Friday, 14 September 2007, 12:14 am | Survival International
Indigenous peoples around the world are today celebrating the UN approval of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The declaration was approved by an overwhelming majority in an historic vote. New Zealand voted against the declaration. More >>
Paraguay Indians Seen As Forest Is Cleared
Friday, 14 September 2007, 12:09 am | Survival International
The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode have been trying to protect the last substantial part of their ancestral forest since 1993. Many of their relatives still live in this area, resisting all contact with outsiders. More >>
UN Votes On Indigenous Peoples Declaration
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 11:54 am | Survival International
Twenty-two years of intensive debate and negotiations climax this week in New York, as the UN General Assembly votes on whether to approve the declaration on indigenous peoples' rights. More >>
Botswana: Six Bushmen Arrested For Hunting
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 11:49 am | Survival International
Six Gana and Gwi Bushmen have been arrested by Botswana police for hunting on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. This follows twenty-one arrests for hunting on 'their ancestral land' in June and July. More >>
Julie Christie Joins Uncontacted Tribes Campaign
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 12:11 am | Survival International
Screen icon Julie Christie and Survival will tomorrow launch a campaign to save uncontacted tribes from extinction, with a new film featuring previously unseen footage of some of the world's most remote and endangered peoples. More >>
Slavery Prejudice Still Applied To Tribal Peoples
Thursday, 23 August 2007, 12:10 am | Survival International
Survival will release a report tomorrow comparing arguments justifying the eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen with those used to defend the transatlantic slave trade. The report marks the UN Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. More >>
BBC 'Tribe' Stars Hit By Disease Epidemic
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 11:32 am | Survival International
The Matis Indians of Brazil, stars of tomorrow's episode of 'Tribe' on BBC TV, are facing an epidemic which has already killed members of this tiny tribe. More >>
57,000 Sign Petition To Save Uncontacted Tribes
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 2:19 pm | Survival International
Survival will present a petition to the Paraguayan government on 9 Aug, UN Indigenous People's Day, with 57,000 signatures in support of the Ayoreo Indians. The petition will be presented simultaneously in London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Brussels. More >>
Peru-Brazil: Tribes Flee 'Red Gold' Rush
Friday, 3 August 2007, 3:03 pm | Survival International
A large group of uncontacted Indians has appeared in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest near the Peru-Brazil border, a Brazilian government official and expert on uncontacted tribes has reported. More >>
Survival Launches Raffle For Uncontacted Tribes
Thursday, 26 July 2007, 2:07 pm | Survival International
Over one hundred tribes around the world choose to reject contact with outsiders. They are the most vulnerable people on the planet. Survival is launching its 2007 raffle in support of the recognition of uncontacted tribes’ land rights. More >>
Destruction Of Isolated Tribe's Heartland
Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 10:13 am | Survival International
The land of Paraguay's Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe is being bulldozed at break-neck speed, forcing the Indians to flee to the last remaining patches of forest. Many Ayoreo have been killed in previous encounters with outsiders. More >>
Peru: Indians Ask Court To Ban Oil Exploration
Saturday, 21 July 2007, 2:24 pm | Survival International
Peru's Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP, has applied to the courts for oil exploration and drilling to be banned in parts of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted tribes. More >>
Botswana: Bushmen Arrested For Hunting
Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 10:56 am | Survival International
Twenty-one Gana and Gwi Bushmen have been arrested by Botswana police for hunting on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. The men were arrested during June and early July and were due to appear in court last week. More >>
Peru: Oil Industry Told To Keep Off Land
Friday, 6 July 2007, 9:32 am | Survival International
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has expressed concern to authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina about the circumstances surrounding the recent escape from a local jail of a man serving a 20-year sentence for the rape ... More >>
Peru: Oil Industry Told To Keep Off Land
Friday, 6 July 2007, 9:32 am | Survival International
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has expressed concern to authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina about the circumstances surrounding the recent escape from a local jail of a man serving a 20-year sentence for the rape ... More >>
Brazil: Uncontacted Tribe Emerges From Amazon
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 2:39 pm | Survival International
In an extraordinary encounter, a group of 89 uncontacted Indians suddenly appeared in an Indian community in the Brazilian state of Pará last week. More >>
Peru: Second Oil Company Blocked
Thursday, 7 June 2007, 12:13 am | Survival International
The Peruvian government has blocked oil exploration by US company Barrett Resources in the northern Amazon over concerns about uncontacted tribes living there. More >>
