We all know that Justin Timberlake is a triple threat. He can sing, dance and act– not just in major motion pictures, but as he takes a comedic spin on Saturday Night Live. So if you’re making bets about what the former pop star will do next, don’t put your money on music, put it on […]
Tension mounts as Brazilian Indians retake land
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. The Guarani marched back to their land last week, unwilling further to endure the appalling living conditions they have been subject to […]
WikiLeaks: India’s tribes ‘exploited and abused’
American diplomats consider the Indian government ‘unwilling and unable’ to ‘end the exploitation and victimisation’ of the country’s 84 million tribal people according to secret cables released by The Hindu newspaper. The cables reveal that the American government feared this neglect ‘plays into the hands of Naxalites’ – the Maoist extremists who are currently engaged […]
Oil giant ConocoPhillips ‘pulls out’ of controversial Amazon project
US oil giant ConocoPhillips has reportedly announced it is pulling out of the controversial oil block 39 in the northern Peruvian Amazon. The decision comes after global outrage over the risk oil companies pose to the lives of two uncontacted tribes living in the area. More than 50 international NGOs signed Survival’s letter last year […]
Government U-turn halts tribal eviction from India’s national parks
The Indian government has scrapped its controversial policy of expelling tribal people from wildlife-rich areas to turn them into national parks. Under new proposals, tribal people can only be evicted with their free, prior and informed consent. Tiger reserves, however, are excluded from the new policy – Survival International has written to the Environment and Forests Ministry […]
Ecological Nightmare In America?
Yesterday, March 29, 2001, according to a report released from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Studies, “The French radiation protection authority, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), estimates the radioactive releases of iodine-131 in Japan had reached about 2.4 million curies by March 22, 2011. That is about 160,000 times the […]
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