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Survival International

November 21, 2020

Government complicity fuels coronavirus among Brazil's indigenous people

The ongoing invasion and destruction of Yanomami land by illegal goldminers means coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the territory.
November 18, 2020

Indigenous voices to be heard for first time in EU debate on conservation

In the livestreamed debate, indigenous people and activists will have the chance to tell European policy makers what they think about conservation.
September 3, 2020

Plan for Protected Areas could displace hundreds of millions, NGOs and experts warn

Environmental and human rights NGOs say nature protection in some regions has become increasingly militarised in recent years.
July 22, 2020

Noted Kenyan conservationist falsely accused of poaching

Many so-called 'conservancies' are fiefdoms for the ultra-rich, the latest manifestations of an ecofascism which has lain at the heart of colonial conservation in Africa for a century, says Survival International.
July 16, 2020

Notorious ‘Factory School’ for 30,000 children to host World Congress of Anthropology

Campaigners say Factory Schools strip children of their identities and teach them to feel ashamed of who they are and where they come from.
July 2, 2020

Brazilian goldminers reported to have killed two Yanomami men

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.
June 20, 2020

Recently contacted tribe is 'the most infected' in Brazil

President Bolsonaro is overseeing the destruction of a people and the rainforests they managed and looked after for millennia, says Survival International
June 4, 2020

Brazilian Yanomami launch global campaign as goldminers and COVID-19 endanger entire tribe

Survival International says that the Yanomami's survival as a people depends on the miners being removed.
May 23, 2020

Removal of top missionary official in Brazil 'is major blow for Bolsonaro'

Ricardo Lopes Dias, an evangelical missionary, was appointed head of the Uncontacted Indians’ Unit of the Indigenous Affairs Agency in February.
April 20, 2020

Evangelical missionaries barred from uncontacted tribes’ land in Brazil

Attempting to contact such peoples during the coronavirus pandemic would almost certainly have been a death sentence for many, says Survival International.