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  • Indian Government Plans Spell Disaster for Uncontacted Island Tribe

    A group of Shompen men in the Great Nicobar Island rainforest. ©Survival One of the world’s most isolated tribes will be wiped out if the Indian government presses ahead with a mega-development project on their island, according to a new report published today. The report “Crushed: How India plans to sacrifice one of the world’s […]

  • Demand for EVs Drives Destruction of Uncontacted People

    Two uncontacted Hongana Manyawa men warn bulldozer operators to stay off their territory. Multiple similar videos prove unequivocally the presence of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people in and around the nickel mining areas. ©Anon A new report by Survival International has revealed that demand for electric vehicles is destroying uncontacted people’s lives and lands in Indonesia. […]

  • Peru: New Images Show Uncontacted Tribe Dangerously Close to Logging Concessions

    Extraordinary new images released today show dozens of uncontacted people in the Peruvian Amazon, just a few miles from a number of logging concessions. ©Survival Campaigners say they’re a graphic illustration of the urgent need to revoke all the logging licenses in the area, and recognize that the territory belongs to the Mashco Piro people, […]

  • Indonesian Senate Leader: Protect Uncontacted Tribe from Nickel Mining

    In recent footage, two uncontacted Hongana Manyawa men warned bulldozer operators to stay off their territory. © Anon One of the most senior politicians in Indonesia has said the government should protect an uncontacted tribe whose territory is being destroyed for the world’s largest nickel mine. Senate Leader AA LaNyalla Mahmud Mattalitti, a close ally […]

  • Boycott of Leather Suppliers over Fears for Uncontacted Indigenous People in Paraguay

    Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, on the day she was first contacted in 2004. Her relatives are still hiding in the forest. © GAT/Survival Pasubio, one of Europe’s leading leather manufacturers, has today announced that it will refuse to buy leather from suppliers whose activities directly or indirectly threaten the forests inhabited by the uncontacted Ayoreo people […]

  • Indian Ministries Set to Approve Mega-project that Will Destroy Uncontacted Island People

    The Shompen live in the rainforests of Great Nicobar. If their forest and rivers are destroyed, they will be too. © ASI Authorities in India have vowed to press ahead with a controversial mega-development project, despite experts’ warnings that it will destroy a unique uncontacted tribe. The $5bn mega-port planned for the Indian Ocean island of […]

  • Indonesia: New “Catastrophic” Footage Shows Uncontacted Tribe Near Nickel Mine

    Uncontacted Hongana Manyawa warn logging company workers to stay out of their territory. © Social media Dramatic new video has emerged showing members of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in Indonesia warning outsiders to stay away, just a few meters from bulldozers destroying their forest. Campaigners have warned that it shows a human rights catastrophe is […]

  • Ten Years on: Uncontacted Tribe in Danger as Land Protection Stalls

    The last of the Kawahiva are forced to live on the run from armed loggers and powerful ranchers. Still from unique footage taken by government agents during a chance encounter. © FUNAI Ten years after Brazilian authorities released extraordinary footage showing the existence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, their lands have still not been fully protected […]

  • Ecuador: Victory for Uncontacted Tribes as Oil Drilling Blocked in Historic Referendum

    Contacted Waorani woman in the Yasuní National Park © Anka Maldonado/Yasunidos In a historic referendum, people in Ecuador have voted to block oil drilling on uncontacted tribes’ land in the Yasuní National Park. Leonidas Iza, President of Ecuador’s national Indigenous organization CONAIE, said today: The Ecuadorian people, mindful of life, in solidarity with our uncontacted […]

  • Peru: “Genocide Bill” Scrapped as Indigenous People Claim Victory

    A Nanti woman and child. The Nanti were just one of many uncontacted and recently-contacted peoples whose survival was threatened by the bill. © Survival In a dramatic reversal of fortune, a key Congressional committee in Peru has effectively blocked a draft law, labeled the “Genocide Bill” by Peru’s Indigenous people for the calamitous effects it […]

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