This week marks the fifth anniversary of an order by the Supreme Court of India that an Andaman Islands highway, which threatens the lives of the Jarawa tribe, must close. The government has defied the order, and the road remains open.
The Ikpeng tribe of the Xingu Park in Brazil have written an impassioned letter demanding that plans to build a hydroelectric dam on their river be halted.
A Reuters report published on CNN yesterday cites the governments treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen and the banning of 17 people including Survival International staff as evidence of Botswanas eroding democracy.
The Indians of the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon have warned that rates of malaria and hepatitis in their communities are spiralling out of control, and that uncontacted tribes in the area are in grave danger.
Indigenous leader Julio Cusirichi Palacios has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his work defending the rights and lives of uncontacted tribes in the Peruvian Amazon.
Peru?s national Indigenous peoples? organization has urged the Peruvian government to protect uncontacted tribes living in the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon.
Indigenous peoples in African countries including Botswana and Kenya are on the brink of destruction due to the expansion of game parks, according to the United Nations expert on Indigenous peoples.
Roy Sesana, leader of the Bushman tribes who won a historic court victory against the Botswana government in December, has appealed to the Indian government to protect the Jarawa of the Andaman Islands.