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2013: A year of successes

From the suspension of mining concessions in Colombia to the Dongria Kondh’s unanimous rejection of a bauxite mine in India and Vanity Fair’s coverage of the Earth’s most threatened tribe, there were reasons for tribal peoples to celebrate in 2013.

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    January 2013: Survival International’s campaign to stop ‘human safaris’ in India’s Andaman Islands gained an important victory, after the Supreme Court banned tourists from traveling along the road which cuts through the Jarawa reserve.

    By March 2013, however, the Supreme Court had reversed this interim order; Survival has continued to campaign for the road to be closed.

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    February: A Colombian judge suspended mining concessions in an ‘unprecedented move’ to protect Embera-Katío Indians’ land in north-west Colombia.

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    Picture © Wikipedia

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    March: The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that the government of Kenya must not evict the Ogiek tribe from their land in the Mau Forest.

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    Picture © Yoshi Shimizu/Survival

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    March: A Guarani community in Brazil celebrated after the government recognized their land as indigenous, and for their exclusive use.

    The 170 members of Pyelito Kuê/ M’barakay community, who live on an ‘island’ between a river and a soya plantation, can now stay on part of their ancestral land until the formal demarcation process is complete.

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    Picture © Sarah Shenker/Survival

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    May: Just weeks after Survival launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands to stop the degrading ‘human safaris’ to the Jarawa tribe, travel companies joined the boycott and over six thousand people pledged not to visit the islands until the tours were stopped, following worldwide media coverage.

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    Picture © Ariberto De Blasoni/Survival

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    May: The Brazilian authorities began an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, in order to return the land to the Indians. At least three of the ranches, in the region of Ajarani, were closed.

    Survival has supported the Yanomami for decades; the Yanomami Park was created in 1992, following years of campaigning by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Survival International, and the Pro Yanomami Commission.

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    Picture © Fiona Watson/Survival International

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    June: The Soliga tribe won an important court victory after its entire stock of honey was seized by forestry officials.

    The confiscation of honey was in direct violation of the 2006 Indian Forest Rights Act, which recognizes the rights of India’s tribal peoples, such as the Soliga, to live in and from their forests, and protect and manage their land.

    Tribal peoples like the Soliga have been living with and protecting the wildlife in their forests for countless generations, and despite severe constraints from forestry officials, they have remained determined to manage, harvest and protect their forests sustainably for current and future generations.

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    Picture © Kalyan Varma/Survival

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    In June, dozens of Botswana Bushmen threatened with eviction, reportedly because they live in an area proposed as a ‘wildlife corridor’, won a significant court victory in their struggle to stay on their land.

    After the wildlife corridor between the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park was proposed, the local and national authorities pressurized the Ranyane Bushmen to leave.

    In a new hearing, the court ruled that no government officials could enter the Bushmen’s compounds without their consent; that their water borehole could not be dismantled without warning; and that the Bushmen’s lawyers must be notified before any further attempt is made to resettle them.

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    Picture © Survival

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    July: A groundbreaking new campaign was launched in India to challenge the deep-seated prejudice that tribal peoples are ‘backwards’ and ‘primitive’. Such attitudes are often used to justify the theft of their land and attempts to force them to change their ways of life.

    By November 2013, the message of the Proud Not Primitive campaign was being heard in India. The Hindu, one of the world’s largest speaking English newspapers, pledged to no longer use the term ‘primitive’ when referring to tribal peoples; an important success for the campaign.

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    Picture © Jason Taylor/Survival International

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    August: India’s Dongria Kondh tribe overwhelmingly rejected plans by the notorious British mining giant Vedanta Resources, for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills.

    Twelve Dongria villages voted unanimously against the mine during consultations ordered by India’s Supreme Court in April 2013, on the basis that their religious, cultural and social rights would be jeopardized if mining were to go ahead.

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    Picture © Ingetje Tadros/www.ingetjetadros.com

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    September: Maasai people in Tanzania celebrated after the Prime Minister said he would scrap a plan to take 1,500 square miles from them in the name of conservation.

    The region of Loliondo will instead remain with the Maasai, who the Prime Minister said had taken ‘good care of the area’ since ‘time immemorial’.

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    Picture © Caroline Halley des Fontaines

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    October: Only weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana tourism, three travel companies suspended their tours to the country and several others expressed concern about the Botswana government’s continued persecution of the Bushmen.

    While the Botswana government is using glossy images of the Bushmen to promote trips to the country, it is simultaneously driving the tribe from their ancestral land by preventing them from hunting.

    Picture © Dominick Tyler

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    November: The plight of the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, reached millions of people worldwide in November and December when the tribe’s shocking story featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times. Both spreads were illustrated with images by world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado.

    The Sunday Times Magazine’s piece was published on November 24, highlighting the Awá’s plight – described by a Brazilian judge as ‘genocide’ – and Survival’s global campaign urging Brazil’s Justice Minister to protect the Awá’s land before the Indians are pushed to extinction.

    The article traces Survival’s work back almost 45 years, noting its creation as the only organization that champions tribal peoples around the world following an article on genocide in the Amazon by acclaimed writer Norman Lewis.

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    Picture © Survival International

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    Vanity Fair’s 13-page article was published in December’s edition. Its author, Senior Contributing Editor Alex Shoumatoff, spent weeks with Salgado and the Awá in the Amazon, to witness first-hand the alarming devastation of their forest home at the hands of armed loggers.

    Over 55,000 protest emails have now been sent to the Brazilian minister as a result of Survival’s Awá campaign.

    Numerous celebrities, including Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth, actress Gillian Anderson and musician Julian Lennon have pledged their support of the campaign by brandishing the Awáicon logo bearing the words ‘Brazil: Save the Awá’.

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