Penan – ‘Our forests are disappearing’
Nine Penan leaders from Sarawak, Malaysia, told visitors to the World Rainforest Music Festival this month that their rainforest home was disappearing.
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Survival launches raffle for uncontacted tribes
Survival is launching its 2007 raffle in support of the recognition of uncontacted tribes' land rights.
Satellite photos reveal destruction of tribe's heartland
Satellite imagery has revealed that the last refuge of uncontacted South American Indians is being illegally destroyed.
Indians ask court to ban oil exploration
Peru's Amazon Indian organisation, AIDESEP, has applied to the courts for oil exploration and drilling to be banned in parts of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted tribes.
UN Human Rights Committee to examine Botswana
Survival has submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Committee detailing the Botswana government?s failure to implement the December 2006 ruling in the case of the Kalahari Bushmen.
Guarani leader assassinated
Ortiz Lopes, a Guarani Kaiowá Indian, was murdered by a gunman on 8 July. The assassin approached his home, called him outside and shot him at point blank range.
Bushmen arrested for hunting despite court judgement
Twenty-one Gana and Gwi Bushmen have been arrested by Botswana police for hunting on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana.
Uncontacted tribes compared to 'Loch Ness monster'
A spokeswoman for Peru's state oil company, Perupetro, has questioned the existence of uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon by comparing them to the Loch Ness monster.