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Cattle-ranchers

October 17, 2019

Drought and commercial cattle farming causing devastating hunger in Angola

Tens of thousands of pastoral farmers who have been driven off their land to make way for commercial cattle ranches are at severe risk of starvation as drought grips southern Angola.
December 27, 2017

A decade of 'broken promises' for Brazilian tribal people

Survival International has criticised the Brazilian government for its failure to recognise the land rights of tribal people, despite a landmark agreement made a decade ago.
September 14, 2016

Paraguayan government defies order to protect uncontacted tribe

The Paraguayan government has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February of this year.
February 12, 2016

Government of Paraguay ordered to protect uncontacted tribe

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has ordered Paraguay’s government to protect an uncontacted tribe from being wiped out.
December 18, 2013

Paraguay grants license to bulldoze UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Paraguay has quietly granted cattle ranchers a license to bulldoze a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is also the last refuge of uncontacted Ayoreo Indians.
October 29, 2013

Ayoreo tubercolosis epidemic claims latest victim

An Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his Paraguay forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died from a lung disease, says Survival International.
September 17, 2013

EU beef imports threaten uncontacted Indians

Forest inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay is being destroyed to make way for cattle destined for the European market.
July 19, 2012

Brazil arrests 18 over high profile execution of Indian leader

Brazilian authorities have arrested 18 people in connection with the high profile killing of an indigenous leader.
November 20, 2011

Masked gunmen kill Brazilian Indian leader

Survival International reports that masked gunmen in Brazil have executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community.
September 13, 2011

‘Trucks of men’ attack indigenous Brazilians

Survival International has received reports that truckloads of armed men are violently driving Brazil’s Guarani from their land