Two Yanomami men are reported to have been killed by gold miners in northern Brazil, as a massive gold rush brings death, disease and pollution to South America’s largest relatively isolated tribe.
Two tribal communities in India have written to the US authorities urging them to scrap support for a conservation project that could lead to the tribe’s eviction from their ancestral forests.
Survival International says the school is an attempt to reduce tribal resistance to the mining industry by teaching children to see mining as good and their own culture as backward.
Survival International says one of the biggest human rights violations in the world is being planned, with almost no voices outside India raised in opposition.
The World Wildlife Fund, one of the world’s biggest conservation organisations, is breaking the law in its backing of a conservation zone in the Congo Basin, according to recently released letters.
UN experts are concerned that terrorism charges are being used to silence those who promote the rights of India’s Dalit, indigenous, and tribal communities,
UNESCO added Kenya’s Lake Turkana to its World Heritage Site Endangered List in June 2018, a sign it believes the iconic lake’s survival is at risk. Experts believe it is drying up largely because of the Gibe III dam , which lies upstream in Ethiopia and was completed in 2016.