The US Congress has approved a landmark bill to stop government funds financing conservation human rights abuses.| www.survivalinternational.org
Homecoming As Resistance: In Karnataka, Adivasis Reclaim A Forest From Which They Were Evicted 40 Years Ago| www.survivalinternational.org
There are about 305 Indigenous peoples living in Brazil today, totalling around 1.7 million people, or 0.8% of Brazil’s population. From the Amazon rainforest to the Atlantic forest and urban areas, they live all around the country, with many different ways of life. Many are threatened by the invasion and theft of their lands, on which they depend for their survival.| www.survivalinternational.org
The uncontacted Kawahiva people's existence was confirmed 25 years ago, but their land remains unprotected.| www.survivalinternational.org
Conclusive evidence points to a previously unknown uncontacted tribe’s existence, but the Brazil government has done little to protect them.| www.survivalinternational.org
The Maasai are undoubtedly among the best known Indigenous peoples worldwide, but behind the travel magazines and Disney movies, there is a much more troubling story of land theft, evictions and violence.| www.survivalinternational.org
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami is a shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami people. He led the long-running international campaign to secure Yanomami land rights, for which he gained recognition in Brazil and around the world. He is central to the ongoing fight of indigenous peoples across Brazil to #StopBrazilsGenocide.| www.survivalinternational.org
Janildo Guajajara was shot on Saturday in a logging town near the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, Maranhão state, where he lived.| www.survivalinternational.org
An uncontacted tribe's existence has been confirmed - but they're already at imminent risk of being wiped out.| www.survivalinternational.org
Protests against the anti-Indigenous policies of Brazil’s President Bolsonaro are occurring in Brazil| www.survivalinternational.org
UNESCO is promoting a conservation model that wounds, alienates and destroys Indigenous peoples, the environment’s best allies. It is rooted on colonial violence and racist misconceptions. While Indigenous peoples are evicted, and their ways of life criminalized, tourists are welcomed in.| www.survivalinternational.org
The very existence of the Baka as a people is threatened. It’s time to decolonize conservation.| www.survivalinternational.org
The Brazilian government is planning to open up the land of uncontacted tribes to deadly exploitation, by scrapping the emergency orders that currently protect their territories. Experts say the plan could drive several uncontacted tribes to extinction, and destroy around 1 million hectares of rainforest – an area twice the size of Delaware.| www.survivalinternational.org
The EU Parliament has condemned evictions of Indigenous Maasai communities under the guise of conservation.| www.survivalinternational.org
Indigenous peoples have been protecting their lands and ecosystems for generations. But since the creation of the first National Parks, governments and large conservation organizations have been evicting them from their lands.| www.survivalinternational.org
Over 50 Mashco Piro people have appeared in Peru in recent days, close to logging concessions.| www.survivalinternational.org
Survival has launched a new report to mark World Heritage Day highlighting UNESCO's complicity in the abuse of Indigenous people.| www.survivalinternational.org
There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world. Their survival is under threat from violence, disease and racism. Read and take action today.| www.survivalinternational.org
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