We, the Indigenous Peoples of the world, are the guardians who have an embedded customary relationship with our lands, waters and territories. Our ecosystems do not belong to us, we belong to them. We ...
“Conservation must be led by Indigenous Peoples, because we know better.” Nairobi: A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including ...
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami is a shaman from the Yanomami tribe. He is the only member of his tribe to have written a book, called The Falling Sky. The Yanomami live in the Amazon in Brazil and Venezuela, ...
Survival’s Sarah Shenker reports on her visit to the Guajajara Guardians – Indigenous people in Brazil who are fighting to protect the forest and an uncontacted tribe from loggers “We are here,” says ...
For tens of thousands of years, people have used their handprints to signal their existence. The hands in Survival’s logo are a message that tribal peoples live in the here and now and must have their ...
A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) offers a flexible way for philanthropists to direct their giving towards the causes they care most about. You can contribute cash, shares or other assets to your ...
Driven to the edge: How the demand for electric cars is destroying uncontacted Indigenous people’s lives and lands in Indonesia ...
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 ...
This page was last updated in 2014 and may contain language which is now outdated.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 ...
Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations. The commissions were established by ...