Obama urged to protect uncontacted tribes from oil pipeline
Region: Peru
President Obama has been urged to help protectPeru’s uncontacted tribeswhen he meets with Peruvian president Alan Garcia on 1 June. Survival has written to President Obama highlighting the threat posed... more
Views: 1316Amazon mega-dams endanger uncontacted Indians
Region: Brazil
Two mega-dams being constructed in the Brazilian Amazon threaten to devastate several groups of uncontacted Indians. The Santo Antônio and Jirau damsare being built on the Madeira River, next to the territ... more
Views: 1327Global ad campaign for Peru’s uncontacted tribes
Region: Peru
An ad supporting Peru’slast uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through the Indians’ territory. T... more
Views: 1306Spanish oil giant targets uncontacted indians’ rainforest
Region: Peru
Spanish-Argentine oil giant Repsol YPF has applied to Peru’s government to cut 454 kilometres of seismic lines and construct 152 heliports in its search for oil on uncontacted tribes’ land i... more
Views: 1384US latest to criticize Botswana government over treatment of Bushmen
Region: Botswana
The US State Department’s latest human rights report has criticized the Botswana government for its ‘continued narrow interpretation’ of the 2006 High Court ruling that granted the Bushmen... more
Views: 1392Ban Ki-moon urged to remove Brazilian ranchers from UN ‘Global Compact’
Region: Paraguay
Survival is calling for Brazilian cattle-ranchers involved in a controversial scheme to bulldoze uncontacted Indians’ land in Paraguay to be removed from the UN’s‘Global Compact’. The cattle-... more
Views: 1567Deadly pipeline threat to uncontacted tribes
Region: Peru
Anglo-French oil companyPerenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being builtto transport an estimate... more
Views: 2310Amnesty Slams Vedanta Resources
Region: India
Amnesty International this week released a report condemning the behavior of FTSE 100 mining company Vedanta Resources. The Amnesty report exposes gross human rights violations committed by the company in Orissa, Ind... more
Views: 1769Extinct: Andaman tribe’s extermination complete as last member dies
Region: India
The last member of a unique tribe has died on India’s Andaman Islands. Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of Bo, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are thought to... more
Views: 2007Protestors Gather At Tiffany Stores Worldwide
Region: Botswana
Survival International supporters demonstrated on February 3 outside Tiffany stores in London, San Francisco, Madrid, Paris, and Berlin to protest at the company funding water boreholes for game animals on Bushman la... more
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