The tribes have lived in this area for centuries and have developed techniques to survive in a challenging environment. They have not given their free, prior and informed consent for the dam or the ...

A unique uncontacted tribe could be wiped out by a massive Indonesian project to produce nickel for electric car batteries. A vast mining scheme on the island of Halmahera is part of Indonesia’s plan ...

“The unprecedented and catastrophic health crisis engulfing the Yanomami people in northern Brazil is a genocide that’s been years in the making” said the head of Survival Brasil Sarah Shenker today. ...

This page was last updated in 2022 and may contain language which is now outdated. An Indigenous man known as “The Man of the Hole” has died in Brazil. He was the last member of his tribe, and the ...

This page was last updated in 2011 and may contain language which is now outdated. An Amazon Indian woman has launched a public appeal to uncover the fate of two Indian slaves brought to Britain a ...

This page was last updated in 2022 and may contain language which is now outdated. A devastating new report has revealed the full extent of the crisis in the Yanomami territory caused by a massive ...

In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Steven Pinker promotes a fictitious, colonialist image of a backward “Brutal Savage,” which pushes the debate on tribal peoples’ rights back over a century ...

Reports that a US national has been arrested after landing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to make contact with the uncontacted Sentinelese people are “deeply disturbing”, Survival ...

Calls are growing for the Indian government to scrap its controversial Great Nicobar project after it suffered a series of setbacks in recent weeks. They include: • The Tribal Affairs Ministry has ...

This page was last updated in 2014 and may contain language which is now outdated. The survivors of a South American tribe which was decimated during the 1950s and 60s are taking Paraguay’s government ...

A group of Indigenous people who were evicted from their ancestral village in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in south India 40 years ago have returned to their former homes. It’s believed to be the first ...

This page was last updated in 2018 and may contain language which is now outdated. An American man, reportedly a missionary, has been killed by members of the Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman Islands, ...