Mark Rylance becomes Survival ambassador
Olivier Award winning actor and long-term Survival supporter, Mark Rylance, has become an ambassador for Survival
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‘Pioneering' plan to give Bushmen armbands as tourist lodge opens
In a major announcement, Botswana’s government today responded to critics of its ‘immoral policy’ of allowing safari lodges with swimming pools in the Kalahari while the Bushmen who live there are denied access to water.
Ban Ki-moon urged to remove Brazilian ranchers from UN ‘Global Compact’
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'.
Brazilian Senate debates dire situation of Guarani Indians
Following Survival International's report to the UN, the Brazilian Senate’s Human Rights Commission met to discuss the serious problems the Guarani face.
Deadly pipeline threat to uncontacted tribes
Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest.
Giant dam to devastate 200,000 tribal people in Ethiopia
A massive hydroelectric dam project on Ethiopia’s Omo River will devastate at least 200,000 tribal people, human rights organization Survival International said today.
Uncontacted tribes threatened by 'thousands of explosions'
A pioneer scientific study has revealed how some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes are threatened by ‘the detonation of thousands of seismic explosives’ on their land.
Bushmen mark eight years without water
As the world marks World Water Day, the Gana and Gwi Bushmen of Botswana are marking eight years without access to a regular supply of water in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.