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Photo of the uncontacted tribe photographed last year in the Brazilian Amazon, near the Peruvian border.© © GLEISON MIRANDA/FUNAI Brazil’s Attorney General’s office has warned that uncontacted Indians in the Amazon are at risk of extinction due to a highway that runs through Rondônia state ...

Crossed spears left by an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon where Perenco is working© Marek Wolodzko/Survival More than a thousand people voted for Anglo-French company Perenco in a spoof Friends of the Earth award for human rights....

Hydropower dams are being built across the Amazon in the name of combating climate change. © Survival Measures to stop global warming risk being as harmful to tribal peoples as climate change itself, according to a new report from Survival....

Guarani man © João Ripper/Survival The body of a Guarani Indian has been found dead and badly bruised in a river close to his ancestral land in Brazil, following an armed attack on the community of Ypo’i on 30 October. Th...

Perenco is exploring for oil inside uncontacted Indians' land.© Survival An Anglo-French company has been nominated for a spoof Friends of the Earth (FoE) award for its billion dollar project in a part of the Amazon inhabited by two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. T...

Botswana's persecution of the Bushmen has continued under President Khama.© Survival A South African woman who said Botswana’s president ‘looks like a Bushman’ was arrested, detained for two days and fined for ‘insulting Botswana’. Dorsey Du...

A spokesman for the Ogiek has condemned the Peruvian government's attempt to disband AIDESEP. © Survival A spokesman from a tribe in Kenya has condemned the Peruvian government’s attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon indigenous movement. The...

Peru's Amazon Indians have been protesting against the exploitation of their lands by oil and gas companies© David Dudenhoefer The Peruvian government’s unprecedented attempt to destroy Peru’s Amazon Indian movement has been condemned by indigenous leaders around the world. The...

The Ayoreo's home is being rapidly destroyed for beef production.© Survival The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef....

The Yanomami are the largest relatively isolated tribe in the Amazon© 1980 Victor Englebert/Survival Seven Yanomami Indians in Venezuela have died from an outbreak of suspected swine flu in the last two weeks. Another 1,000 Yanomami are reported to have caught the virulent strain of flu....

Oil palms planted on recently-deforested land, Sarawak© M Ross/ Survival – Penan tribe in Borneo welcomes ban An advert for Malaysian palm oil has been banned in the UK, dealing a major blow to the credibility of Malaysia’s palm oil industry. Mem...

The Harakmbut are one of three tribes that depend on the reserve where Hunt is exploring for oil.© Dilwyn Jenkins/Survival Indigenous people have threatened to evict a US company, Hunt Oil, exploring for oil on their ancestral land in the Peruvian Amazon....