Plans for the construction of a highway in one of the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon have been rejected by a local Indigenous organization because of the danger it poses to uncontacted tribes living there.
The top human rights body in Latin America, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), has demanded to know what the Peruvian government is doing to protect uncontacted tribes living in the remote Amazon.
Screen icon Julie Christie and Survival will launch a campaign tomorrow to save uncontacted tribes from extinction with a new film featuring previously unseen footage of some of the world?s most remote and endangered peoples.
Nepal's parliament has this week announced its decision to sign the UN law on tribal peoples (ILO Convention 169).
Four men from the Wanniyala-Aetto tribe of Sri Lanka have been arrested for collecting honey on their own land.
Indian leaders in Brazil are voicing their opposition to a draft law which if approved will allow mining in Indigenous territories. Davi Yanomami spoke recently to a Survival researcher by telephone.
Survival will release a report tomorrow comparing arguments justifying the eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen with those used to defend the transatlantic slave trade.
Further evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing from Peru to Brazil because of illegal logging has been found by a Brazilian government official and uncontacted tribes expert.