The extent of the peril facing the world’s ‘most threatened tribe’ was revealed today, as Brazilian authorities admitted that the Awá tribe are now outnumbered 10:1 inside just one of their reserves. Officials acknowledged the scale of the emergency after receiving over 20,000 messages of protest following the launch of Survival’s campaign to save the [...]
Oscar-winning film star Colin Firth has launched a major Survival International campaign to save ‘Earth’s most threatened tribe’ – the Awá of the Brazilian Amazon. The centerpiece of the campaign is a short film, featuring an appeal by Colin Firth and music by Grammy-winning composer Heitor Pereira. The Awá are a small tribe whose territory has been invaded [...]
Apr 042012
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Peru’s government is ignoring new UN guidelines on the protection of uncontacted Indians in the Amazon. Instead of backing the UN’s landmark report, which supports the tribes’ right to be left alone, Peru is allowing the country’s largest gas project to expand further into indigenous territories known to house numerous uncontacted [...]
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ‘Genocide’ risk in Brazil despite UN push to end racism Calls are growing to stop ‘a real situation of genocide’ inside Brazil’s Amazon, as the UN marks International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Experts warn Brazil’s Awá tribe will face extinction unless more is done to protect their land [...]
The Environmental News Service reports that on March 8 Ecuadorian Indians began a 12 day march from southern Ecuador to the capital city, Quito, protesting construction of a large copper mine by a Canadian company and the government’s plans to allow international companies to develop more large scale mines. The marchers plan on reaching their destination on [...]
In an official report, Paraguay’s Department of Indian Affairs INDI has confirmed that an uncontacted tribe is living on farmland in the northern Chaco region owned by a controversial ranching company. Signs of the uncontacted Ayoreo Indians have been found on land owned by Brazilian company River Plate. The investigation shows clear signs of the [...]
‘Human safaris’ pose threat to uncontacted Amazon tribe
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE February 8, 2012 Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Survival International’s release of close-up pictures of the tribe to raise awareness of the threats illegal logging poses [...]
Feb 022012
Isolated South American Indians continue to come under pressure from outside encroachment on their territories. In September of last year the advocacy group Survival International published a story on it’s web site, Amazon Indian nomad beaten up by loggers , and sent out a press release reporting that loggers in the Brazilian Amazon had attacked a member of the uncontacted Awa Indians [...]
Uncontacted Tribes at Risk of Massive Population Loss
Central and South America, Health
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Apr 062011
Survival International is warning that uncontacted tribes face massive population loss if their land is not protected. Around 100 tribes worldwide are uncontacted. Almost all are at risk of being wiped out by logging, oil exploration, hydroelectric dam construction and other projects. Uncontacted tribes have little immunity to diseases like flu and measles, and epidemics [...]
Apr 062011
Bolivia plans to redistribute 400,000 acres to it’s poorest citizens. The country’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, hopes to lift thousands out of poverty with the program. Read the complete story in Indian Country Today: Bolivia Looks to Land Redistribution
Bill Clinton Joins Brazil's Indigenous People In Fight Against Dam
Central and South America
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Apr 042011
A story in Indian Country Today says that Bill Clinton has joined in the opposition to Brazil’s huge Belo Monte hydroelectric dam along the Xingu River in the Amazon. According to the story, “critics argue that the project would displace more than 20,000 people, cause extensive deforestation and negatively affect the livelihoods and cultures of [...]
