Three Amazon Indians have begun a journey through Europe to protest against dams which threaten to destroy the lands and lives of thousands of tribal people. Ruth Buendia Mestoquiari, an Ashaninka Indian from Peru, Sheyla Juruna, a Juruna Indian from the Xingu region and Almir Surui of the Surui tribe in Brazil, are calling for […]
Trial of Indian leader’s ‘assassins’ resumes
The trial of three men accused of murdering renowned Guarani Indian leader Marcos Veron is set to resume on Monday in São Paulo, Brazil. Marcos Veron, an internationally respected Guarani Kaiowá leader, was beaten to death in 2003 by gunmen working for a local rancher, after he led his community’s reoccupation of their ancestral land.


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Uncontacted Amazon Indians face annihilation
A shocking report obtained by Survival International reveals that the home of the nomadic Awá tribe suffered more deforestation than any other indigenous territory in the Amazon in 2009. Around 60 to 100 Awá have managed to remain uncontacted, but their last refuge is now being destroyed. A huge influx of loggers and settlers has […]
GILLIAN ANDERSON NARRATES UNIQUE FILM OF UNCONTACTED INDIANS
Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival International’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes with an extraordinary new film. See the video, narrated by Gillian Anderson The film shows uncontacted Indians on the Brazil-Peru border in never-seen-before detail. It is the first-ever aerial footage of an uncontacted community. Ms Anderson […]
Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. The move is the first success of Survival’s campaign to protect the uncontacted Indians of the Peru-Brazil border. Global coverage of the newly-released photos made public this week has pushed the […]
Vedanta fights back over Indian hill tribe’s sacred mountain
FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe. The Orissa High Court will hear the case on Wednesday 2 February.
 The Dongria Kondh, whose plight has been compared to the fictional Na’vi in Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, won an historic victory against Vedanta last year. […]
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