One of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes, the Nukak, has become tragically caught up in the aftermath of the recent hostage deal negotiated in Colombia between the government and left-wing FARC guerrillas.
Chile has signed up to the world’s key international law on tribal peoples, following Spain and Nepal to become the third country to sign in the last eighteen months.
The threats to uncontacted tribes living in the most remote parts of the Amazon basin has been named an ‘issue of vital importance’ by the Amazon’s most prominent Indigenous federation.
Survival International will hold a peaceful protest in support of the Kalahari Bushmen outside a public meeting hosted by the Botswana diamond industry at Chatham House in London.
Jeweller Pippa Small was named today as an ambassador for Survival International.
Yanomami Indian leaders in Brazil have claimed that a project to open Indigenous land for mining would ‘bring death’ to their tribe.
An Indigenous language dies on average once every two weeks, reports Survival on International Mother Language Day (21 February).
A group of Yanomami Indians have spent the past ten days camped in a local Brazilian town following the invasion of their land by goldminers and ranchers.