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h2. How do they live? Most Indians live in settled villages by the rivers, and grow vegetables and fruits like manioc, corn, beans and bananas. <p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="175" style="float: right; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.4em"> <tbody><tr> <td> <a href="/lib/img/gallery/Image_Galleries/yanomami/ecard/BRA-YANO-FAMILY-VE1980_ecard.jpg" class="lightview"><img style="border: 1px solid #3d3d3d" src="/lib/img/gallery/Image_Galleries/yanomami/news/BRA-YANO-FAMILY-VE1980_news.jpg" title="The Yanomami live in Roraima state, Brazil, and across the border in Venezuela" width="175" height="132" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 4px; color: #666;"><strong>The Yanomami </strong> live in Roraima state, Brazil, and across the border in Venezuela</td> </tr> </tbody></table></p> They also hunt and fish, using plant-based poisons to stun the fish. Some tribes use shotguns for hunting, others use bows and arrows, spears, or blowguns with darts tipped with curare. Only a few Amazonian tribes are nomadic; they tend to live deep in the forest away from the rivers. They grow some crops but rely more on hunting and gathering. Today, most Indians in the Amazon have access to ‘Western’ healthcare and education. When these are controlled by the Indians themselves they are usually very successful. h2. What are their problems? Almost all the Indians’ problems revolve around land: outsiders either want their land, or something on or underneath it. The key threats are a massive boom in oil and gas exploration, rampant illegal logging and the rapid spread of ranching and farming. h3. Land = Life Indian tribes whose lands are respected generally thrive. But in Brazil Indians have no communal land ownership rights, while in Peru and Colombia many villages secured land title decades ago, but governments and companies regularly ride rough-shod over their rights. <object width="390" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/O4wvWeXc06A&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=18" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/O4wvWeXc06A&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="390" height="315"></embed></object><span style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #666;">Indians from Brazil's Raposa-Serra do Sol indigenous area tell Survival about their lands and lives</span> Five centuries after the first Europeans entered Amazonia, many Indians are still dying at the hands of outsiders, and entire tribes continue to face the threat of annihilation. h2. Take action Amazon tribes need your help. Survival will send you a *free Amazon tribes info pack* including an _Amazon_ bulletin sheet, an _Uncontacted Tribes_ DVD and our book on Indians in Brazil, _Disinherited_. Just fill in your name address and e-mail below (Survival will not pass your details on to any other organisation). <img src="/lib/img/content/amazon-leaflet.png" width="57" height="80" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;" /><div style="float: left;"><form action="/info/thanks" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="info" /><input type="hidden" name="type" value="New Amazon info pack request" /><input type="hidden" name="flash" value="We will send you a free Amazon information pack shortly." /><small>NAME</small> <input type="text" name="name" /> <small>ADDRESS</small> <textarea name="address"></textarea> <small>E-MAIL</small> <input type="text" name="e-mail" /> <input type="submit" value="Send »" /> </form> </div> <div class="clearer"> </div> Survival's most urgent campaigns in the Amazon are for the "*Nukak*":/tribes/nukak, two thirds of whom have died in the 20 years since contact, for "*Peru's uncontacted Indians*":/tribes/isolatedperu under threat from oil companies and loggers, and for the "*Indians of Raposa-Serra do Sol*":/tribes/raposa, whose lands are under siege by violent rice farmers.

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notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. It is also the ancestral home of 1 million Indians.* They are divided into about 400 tribes, each with its own language, culture and territory. Many have had contact with outsiders for almost 500 years. Others – ‘uncontacted’ tribes – have had no contact at all. notextile. </span>

<br /><br /><div style="background: #EEE url('/lib/img/content/greyfadebg.png') repeat-x top; padding: 3px; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC; border-right: 1px solid #CCC;"><a href="/about/amazonalbum"><img src="/lib/img/content/album-thumb.png" width="101" height="84" style="float: left; border: 0;"/></a><h2 style="margin-top: 3px;"><a href="/about/amazonalbum">'Survival' album</a></h2><strong>Bruce Parry has brought together the brightest stars in the music world with a new fundraising album. <a href="/about/amazonalbum">More »</a></strong><a name="order"><div class="clearer"> </div></a></div> h2. Free Amazon tribes pack <img src="/lib/img/content/amazon-leaflet.png" width="57" height="80" style="float: left;" /><form action="/info/thanks" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="info" /><input type="hidden" name="type" value="New Amazon info pack request" /><input type="hidden" name="flash" value="We will send you a free Amazon information pack shortly." />Get a free info pack about the Amazon tribes including the book 'Disinherited' and the DVD "'Uncontacted Tribes'":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes : just fill in your name, postal address and e-mail below: <div style="margin-left: 57px;"><small>NAME</small> <input type="text" name="name" /> <small>ADDRESS</small> <textarea name="address"></textarea> <small>E-MAIL</small> <input type="text" name="e-mail" /> <input type="submit" value="Send »" /> </form></div> h2. Films from "Tribal Channel":http://www.tribalchannel.tv notextile. <div class="listing"> <div style="float: left;"><a href='http://www.tribalchannel.tv/player/program/3'> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="90" height="57" id="moving tv button1" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="/lib/swf/tv_button.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><param name="FlashVars" value="program_id=3" /><embed src="/lib/swf/tv_button.swf" FlashVars="program_id=3" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="90" height="57" name="moving tv button1" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object></a></div><div style="float: left; width: 120px; margin-left: 15px;"><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; font-size: 12px;"><a href='http://www.tribalchannel.tv/player/program/3'>The Akuntsu's Last Dance</a></h3> <div class="desc"> Narrated by Julie Christie <a class="watch" href="http://www.tribalchannel.tv/player/program/3">Watch »</a></div></div> <div class="clearer"> </div> </div> h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Akuntsu*":/tribes/akuntsu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Awá*":/tribes/awa <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Brazilian Indians*":/tribes/brazilian <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Nukak*":/tribes/nukak <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Indians of Raposa-Serra do Sol*":/tribes/raposa <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Peru's uncontacted Indians*":/tribes/isolatedperu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Yanomami*":/tribes/yanomami h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. The world's brightest stars Musicians on the album include: *KT Tunstall*, *Will.i.am* (Black Eyed Peas), *Johnny Borrell* (Razorlight), *Mike Oldfield*, *Jeremy Warmsley* feat. *Mystery Jets* and *Adem*, *Jason Mraz & Brett Dennen*, *Yusuf Islam* (formerly Cat Stevens), *Hot Chip*, *The Go! Team*, *Dawn Kinnard* , *Tom Baxter*, *Skin* & *Robot Club*, *Hybrid*, *Adam Freeland*, *The Egg*, *The Ruby Suns*, *Blue States*, *Way Out West* and *Tom Baxter*. In addition, *Guy Berryman*, *Jonas* from MEW and *Magne* from A-ha have formed a new band specially for the CD called _Apparatjik_, and recorded a track that has been used in the end credits of ‘Amazon’. <object width="390" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gRVafSeUKfc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gRVafSeUKfc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="390" height="325"></embed></object><br />Bruce Parry explains the idea behind the album h2. Track listing <div style="width: 47%; float: left; font-size: 11px;"> *Disc 1* *1.* Apparatjik (Guy Berryman /Jonas of MEW / Magne of A-ha) - _Ferreting_ *2.* Dawn Kinnard - _Love is my new Drug_ *3.* Will i Am (Black Eyed Peas) feat The Babongo Tribe - _One People_ *4.* KT Tunstall - _The Hidden Part_ *5.* Jason Mraz & Brett Dennen - _Long Road to Forgiveness_ *6.* Jeremy Warmsley & Mystery Jets - _Grains of Sand_ *7.* Johnny Borrell - _Carrikfergus_ *8.* Tom Baxter - _Make a Stand_ *9.* Skin & Robot Club feat Adi Tribe - _Simmer Down_ *10.* Yusuf Islam - _Edge of Existence_ </div><div style="width: 47%; float: right; font-size: 11px;"> *Disc 2* *1.* Hot Chip feat The Babongo tribe - _Babongo tribe remix_ *2.* Adam Freeland feat the Suri tribe - _KIN_ *3.* Hybrid feat The Suri tribe - _Komuru_ *4.* The Egg feat the Anuta & babongo tribes - _Trails and Tribulations_ *5.* The Go! Team feat The Babongo tribe - _Templates from home_ *6.* The Ruby Suns feat. the Penan tribe - _Don't touch the dusty fruit_ *7.* Blue States feat Adi tribe - _Hello Kombai_ *8.* Way Out West feat The Suri tribe - _Evalina_ *9.* Roger Sanchez feat The Adi tribe - _Noneya_ *10.* Mike Oldfield feat the Anuta tribe - _Song for Survival_ </div>

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notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.1em;"> *Bruce Parry, star of the BBC series' "'Tribe'":http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe and "'Amazon'":http://www.bbc.co.uk/amazon, has teamed up with some of the music world’s biggest names to create a fundraising album for Survival.* Every track on the album is exclusive, and they have all been written especially for the project. The album is <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=290741005&s=143444">available on iTunes</a>, in the <a href="/shopping/product_details.php?subcat_id=13&id=501">Survival online store</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruce-Parry-Presents-Amazon-Tribe/dp/B001EDG2GS/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3">at Amazon.co.uk</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bruce-Parry-Presents-Amazon-Tribe-Songs-Surviv/dp/B001EDG2GS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1224689244&sr=8-2">Amazon.com</a> and in selected stores. notextile. </span>

h2. Buy it online now <div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;"><a href="/shopping/product_details.php?subcat_id=13&id=501"><img src="/lib/img/content/survival.png" width="100" height="50" border="0" class="icon" /></a><br /><a href="/shopping/product_listing.php?id=13"><strong>Buy from Survival</strong></a></div> <div style="float: left;"><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=290741005&s=143444"><img src="/lib/img/content/itunes-logo.png" width="100" height="50" border="0" class="icon" /></a><br /><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=290852168&s=143444"><strong>Buy from iTunes</strong></a></div> <div style="float: left; margin-top: 6px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruce-Parry-Presents-Amazon-Tribe/dp/B001EDG2GS/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3"><img src="/lib/img/content/amazon-logo.png" width="100" height="50" border="0" class="icon" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruce-Parry-Presents-Amazon-Tribe/dp/B001EDG2GS/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3"><strong>Buy from Amazon.co.uk</strong></a></div> <div class="clearer"> </div><br /><br /> h2. Find the album on... <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bruce-Parry-Amazon-Songs-for-Survival/38786884456?ref=ts"><img src="/lib/img/content/facebook-logo.png" border="0" width="100" height="75" /></a>   <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bruceparrysongsforsurvival"><img src="/lib/img/content/myspace-logo.png" border="0" width="75" height="75" /></a> h2. Listen *Brett Dennen and Jason Mraz -<br />Long Path to Forgiveness* <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: middle;" data="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24" id="audioplayer1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&soundFile=/files/news/music/dennenandmraz.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /></object> *Mike Oldfield - Song for Survival* <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: middle;" data="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24" id="audioplayer1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&soundFile=/files/news/music/songforsurvival.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /></object> *KT Tunstall - The Hidden Heart* <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: middle;" data="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24" id="audioplayer1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&soundFile=http://www.survival-international.org/files/mediabox/songsforsurvival/kttunstall_thehiddenpart.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /></object> *Will.i.am - One People* <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: middle;" data="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24" id="audioplayer1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&soundFile=http://www.survival-international.org/files/mediabox/songsforsurvival/will.i.am-OnePeople.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /></object> *Apparatjik - Ferreting* <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: middle;" data="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" width="290" height="24" id="audioplayer1"><param name="movie" value="http://www.survival-international.org/lib/audio/player.swf" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=1&bg=0xf8f8f8&leftbg=0xeeeeee&lefticon=0x666666&rightbg=0xcccccc&rightbghover=0x999999&righticon=0x666666&righticonhover=0xffffff&text=0x666666&slider=0x666666&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0x666666&loader=0x9FFFB8&soundFile=http://www.survival-international.org/files/mediabox/songsforsurvival/apparatjik-Ferreting.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /></object>

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h2. Hakani - paving a road to hell In this Q&A, Survival's director Stephen Corry explains why Survival is against _Hakani_. <ul class="links"> <li><h3><span class='bullet'>»</span> <span class='icon'><img src='/lib/img/structure/icon_zip.png' height='23' width='22' alt='PDF' /></span><a href='/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf'><strong>'Hakani' Q&A with Stephen Corry</strong></a> <small>(PDF)</small></h3></li> <li><h3><span class='bullet'>»</span>  <a href='/informacao/hakani'><strong>'Hakani' interview with Stephen Corry</strong></a> <br /><small><em>in Portuguese</em></small></h3> </li> </ul> Extracts below: h3. _You object to the film ‘Hakani’. Why?_ Stephen Corry: It’s faked. It puts together footage from many different Indian tribes and uses trick photography to make its point. It wasn’t filmed in an Indian community, the earth covering the children’s faces is actually chocolate cake, and the Indians in the film were paid as actors. h3. _The filmmakers say it’s a re-enactment, not a fake. How do you respond?_ Stephen Corry: It’s presented as entirely real. The opening title of the complete film reads, ‘A true story’, and only at the very end is the viewer told it’s a re-enactment. The trailer, which has been seen by far more people, doesn’t mention it at all. If it were broadcast here, that would be mandatory. If [the infanticide] happened as portrayed, it’s an extraordinary isolated case. After decades of working in Amazonia, we know of no Indian peoples where parents are told to kill their children. It just doesn’t happen. h3. _Why oppose the film if it’s just trying to stop infanticide?_ Stephen Corry: The film and its message are harmful. They focus on what they claim happens routinely in Indian communities, but it doesn’t. It incites feelings of hatred against Indians. Look at the comments on the YouTube site, things like, ‘So get rid of these native tribes. They suck’, and, ‘Those amazon mother f---ers burrying (sic) little kids, kill them all’. The filmmakers should be ashamed of all the harm this film is doing to the people they are trying to help. It’s propaganda to bolster the evangelical campaign for a very dangerous principle, the so-called Muwaji law, which has been presented to the Brazilian Congress. h3. _What’s that?_ The Muwaji law focuses on what it calls ‘traditional practices’ and says what the state and citizens must do about them. It says that if anyone thinks there is a risk of ‘harmful traditional practices’, they must report it. If they don’t, they are liable to imprisonment. The authorities must intervene and remove the children and/or their parents. All this because someone, anyone, a missionary for example, claims there is some risk. "*Read more online at Scribd.com*":http://www.scribd.com/doc/6154596/Hakani-Paving-the-way-to-hell or "download the PDF":/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf

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'Hakani' is a film produced by the American fundamentalist missionary organisation _Youth With a Mission_. It claims to be the "true story" of a Brazilian Indian child called Hakani who was supposedly buried alive by her tribe, the Suruwaha. In fact, the film was faked - and even the missionaries who produced it '<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-22-infanticide_N.htm">admit there is no way to verify what they say happened</a>'.

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_youtube_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani on Youtube*":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjRU6_Zj0U <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_wikipedia_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani article on Wikipedia*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakani:_A_Survivor%27s_Story <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*USA Today article on Hakani*":http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-22-infanticide_N.htm <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Sign Indians' petition for consultation on law*":http://www.petitiononline.com/14GATOS/petition.html <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani official website*":http://www.hakani.org/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Youth With a Mission - creators of Hakani film*":http://www.ywam.org/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani Q&A with Stephen Corry @ Scribd.com*":http://www.scribd.com/doc/6154596/Hakani-Paving-the-way-to-hell h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_pdf_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Hakani Q&A with Stephen Corry*":/files/background/hakani-qanda.pdf <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*‘Hakani’ Entrevista com Stephen Corry*":/informacao/hakani "(Em português)":/informacao/hakani h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. Powering and disempowering As economies demand more electricity, the solution governments often provide comes in the form of giant, industrial dams, which are enormously destructive to peoples and the environment. Large dams typically displace thousands of people as water submerges their homes and surroundings. The Narmada dams project of central India, for example, is "set to force around 320,000 to find new homes":http://www.narmada.org/sardarsarovar.html whilst many more would have their livelihoods affected. notextile. <p><div style="float:right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px; "><img src="/lib/img/tagpages/narmadagirl.jpg" style="border: solid 1px #777;"><br /><small>Girl of the Narmada valley, India.</small></div> Set along fragile river systems, they bring an enormous change in the ecology and overall dynamic of the land and rivers.</p> Large reservoirs, which are created along with dams, are health hazards as stagnant water encourages insects which transmit serious tropical diseases such as malaria. Tribal peoples depend on rivers for food, drinking and bathing water. To many communities, waterfalls and rapids are sacred places. Yet, all too often, the people who stand to lose most are considered least by planners. It is common for no consultation to take place at all with indigenous communities at the heart of the affected areas. h2. Case studies From Malaysia to Brazil, new dams are promising electricity to some and devastation to others. h3. Omo Valley tribes, Ethiopia A massive dam called Gibe 3 is being built along the Omo River. When completed it will destroy a fragile environment and "the livelihoods of eight tribes downstream":/tribes/omovalley which are closely linked to the river and its annual flood. notextile. <p><a href="/tribes/omovalley"><img src="http://assets.survivalinternational.org/pictures/379/ETH-HAM-EL-05_news_medium.jpg" style="float: right; border: solid 1px #777; margin: 0 0 5px 10px;" width="180px" /></a>The flawed environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) claims it is possible to have an artificial flood, but according to the NGO <em>Campaign to Reform the World Bank</em>, ‘in the whole of Africa there is not one hydro-electric plant which has succeeded in re-creating such a model’, due to technical difficulties and high costs.</p> Nor is it clear whether guarantees have been offered that indigenous communities will be able to participate in the regulation of artificial floods and field irrigation. Among other things, the ESIA did not make a thorough assessment of tribal communities’ land use. Until this is understood it is impossible to assess how they might be affected by the dam. Download PDFs: "_International Rivers_ Factsheet":http://assets.survival-international.org/documents/69/Gibe3_IRN_Fact_Sheet_final.pdf, "_African Resources Working Group_ commentary":http://assets.survival-international.org/documents/70/ARWG_COMMENTARY.GIBE_III_DAM.downstreamEIA-4.pdf and "Survival's letter to the African Development Bank's directors":http://assets.survival-international.org/documents/68/SC.AfDB_directors_9.4.09.pdf. h3. The Enawene Nawe, Brazil notextile. <p>A series of hydroelectric dams is springing up along the Upper Juruena river that has fed <a href="/tribes/enawenenawe">the Enawene Nawe</a> and other indigenous people for centuries.</p> notextile. <p><a href="/tribes/enawenenawe"><img src="/lib/img/gallery/Image_Galleries/enawenenawe/news/enawene_news.jpg" style="float: right; border: solid 1px #777; margin-left: 8px;" /></a>The tribe knows that the fish and quality of the water will be severely affected.</p> Already under siege from loggers, soya production, cattle ranchers and others, they are now resisting this latest threat to their land and way of life. Their recent protest left a dam building site in ruins. It is obvious that they fear their fate is the same as the many other tribal people who have already suffered from such developments. h3. The Penan, Malaysia In 2008, a "leaked map exposed the huge dam plans":/news/3450 of the national electricity company in Sarawak, Malaysia. "The local Penan people":/tribes/penan, who are familiar with destructive interference from outsiders, now face a new challenge to their land and livelihoods. Blueprints were accidentally posted on the internet for dams that will submerge homes and villages. To make matters worse, these dams are projected to produce far more electricity than Sarawak uses. h2. Take action Let the decision-makers behind dam projects know that their plans in spite of tribal peoples are being watched across the world. Your objection can remind them of the seriousness of their choice. "*Tell the Ethiopian Prime Minister to halt the Gibe 3.*":/actnow/writealetter/omovalley "*Write a letter for the Enawene Nawe.*":/actnow/writealetter/enawenenawe "*Send a letter urging the government of Sarawak to recognise the Penan's rights.*":/actnow/writealetter/penan

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Dam construction is a menace to tribal peoples across the world.* Once-stable river basins become flooded and river beds diverted as governments look for ways to increase electricity output. Local people usually suffer most, being forced off their land as the resources they depend on disappear or deteriorate. notextile. </span>

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Enawene Nawe*":/tribes/enawenenawe <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Penan*":/tribes/penan h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*The Times article on destructive dams*":http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5908207.ece h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. Rights and responsibilities All over Brazil, indigenous peoples are living in differing degrees of isolation. Illegal miners, ranchers, loggers and other groups pose a risk to Indians' lives and well-being and destroy their natural resources. FUNAI's task is to ensure that their rights are respected as set out in the Brazilian Constitution and the Indian Statute. Its work is wide-ranging and includes opposition to ‘Hakani’, the controversial evangelical missionary film which promotes intervention by the authorities in tribal communities. h2. Uncontacted Indians FUNAI is made up of several departments, one of which is the General Coordination Unit of Uncontacted Indians (CGII), established in 1987. It is the only government department in the world which is dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples who have little or no contact with national society and other tribes. The department was founded by Sydney Possuelo, as a result of witnessing death and disease provoked by government missions which sought to make contact with previously isolated tribes. notextile. <p><span style="float:right; margin-left: 7px; "><a href="/news/3766"><img src="/lib/img/tagpages/meirarrows.jpg" style="border: solid 1px #777; "></a><br /><small>FUNAI agent José Carlos Meirelles Jr<br />exhibits arrows from an uncontacted tribe<br /> at a jungle outpost in Acre.</small></span>He introduced significant changes to government policy, and the previous strategy of establishing contact with such groups with the aim of eventual integration was substituted for one of protection and respect for the Indians' right to remain isolated.</p> Nowadays, contact is only sought if isolated groups are thought to be under serious threat. This Uncontacted Indians unit is responsible for protecting 14 million hectares of isolated Indians' territory, more than three times the size of Switzerland. Last year, it "released photographs of an uncontacted tribe":/news/3340 taken from the air. The images received major international media coverage. h2. History Before FUNAI came into existence, its role was entrusted to the Indian Protection Service (SPI) founded in 1910. notextile. <p><span style="float:right; margin-left: 7px; text-align: center;"><img src="/lib/img/tagpages/funailogo.png"><br /><small>FUNAI's official logo.</small></span>It aimed to protect Indians by bringing them into ‘mainstream’ national society, thereby eliminating cultural diversity and freeing up their lands. Nevertheless, the creation of this body introduced a significant change, removing the church's monopoly in 'assisting' indigenous peoples. Under its founder Marshall Cândido Rondon, the SPI started with high ideals, but it later suffered from bureaucracy and controversy as corrupt officials went unchecked and it failed to provide medical care and protection to newly contacted tribes. This neglect worsened into a terrible litany of persecution and exploitation on the part of SPI officials. In 1967 the true extent of criminal actions against the indigenous population of Brazil was exposed in the <em>Figueiredo</em> report, commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior. The 5,000 page document revealed a catalogue of atrocities from mass murder and torture to slavery, sexual abuse and land theft. It held the SPI responsible for much of the suffering and even for the extermination of some tribes, the very people it was supposed to protect. It concluded that 80 tribes had disappeared completely. There was public outcry in Brazil and concern around the world. notextile. <p><span style="float:right; margin-left: 10px; "><img src="/lib/img/tagpages/norman_lewis_article.jpg" style="border: solid 1px #333;"><br /><small>Norman Lewis' article in The<br />Sunday Times.</small></span>A British newspaper, the Sunday Times, sent writer Norman Lewis to investigate. His article, 'Genocide', shocked the public and led to the founding of Survival International in 1969.</p> As a result of the Figueiredo report, the SPI was replaced by FUNAI in 1967.

*FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, is the Brazilian government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to indigenous peoples.* FUNAI is responsible for mapping out and protecting lands traditionally inhabited and used by these communities. It is charged with preventing invasions of indigenous territories by outsiders.

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Official FUNAI website*":http://www.funai.gov.br <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_wikipedia_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*FUNAI article on Wikipedia*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funda%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Nacional_do_%C3%8Dndio <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_wikipedia_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Sydney Possuelo article on Wikipedia*":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Possuelo <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*A look at Sydney Possuelo's life and work*":http://www.korubo.com/AMAZONDOC/possuelo.html h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted tribes of Brazil*":/tribes/brazilian h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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FUNAI - National Indian Foundation (Brazil)

h2. ‘Miracle’ It is not difficult to see why Perenco wants to work in this region. The discovery of oil there is believed to be the biggest in Peru in 30 years – an estimated 300 million barrels. During a personal visit to one of the wells, Peru’s president, Alan Garcia, declared the discovery a ‘miracle.’ h2. ‘We’re people just like you’ Barrett Resources, the company acquired by Perenco last year, recommended that its workers shout a number of messages if they came across any "uncontacted Indians":/tribes/isolatedperu. These included, ‘We’re people just like you’, ‘We haven’t come here to look for women, we have our own women in our own village’ and ‘Is something disturbing you?’ notextile. <a href="http://www.perenco.com"><img width="113" height="75" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://assets3.survival-international.org/pictures/215/perenco75_news_medium.jpg" /></a> Perenco claims the area is uninhabited, but the Peruvian government, the Ecuadorian government, local indigenous organizations and countless experts have all recognised the presence of isolated Indians in the area.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Perenco is a Anglo-French company which has a huge oil project in Peru's northern Amazon.* This is an area inhabited by at least two vulnerable "uncontacted tribes":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes who may well be destroyed by Perenco's work there. One of the groups is believed to be a sub-group of the Waorani and another is known as the Pananujuri. No one is sure how many of them there are. notextile. </span>

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Perenco website*":http://www.perenco.com <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*UK Daily Mail article*":http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1023116/Amazonian-tribes-threatened-London-based-firm-wanting-drill-oil-land.html h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted tribes of Peru*":/tribes/isolatedperu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*News: 100s of Perenco workers to enter tribes' territory*":/news/4067 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted Tribes campaign*":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. 'Try communicating with them' Repsol's work poses a real threat to the tribes because of their lack of immunity to outsiders' diseases. Any form of contact with them can be fatal. Despite this, Repsol has recommended its workers 'try communicating' with the tribes if they see them. <img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets-production.survival-international.org/pictures/217/repsolypf_news_medium.jpg" width="125" height="83" style="border: solid 1px #777; margin-left: 10px; float: right;" /> These recommendations include shouting at them through megaphones, 'drawing on the ground', and explaining to them that it is 'not the company's intention to interfere with their activities.' Needless to say, exploring for oil inside their territory constitutes an unavoidable 'interference in their activities'

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Repsol-YPF has a contract to drill for oil on land inhabited by uncontacted tribes in northern Peru.* There are at least two "uncontacted tribes":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes in the region, although their identity is not clear. One may be the Taromenane, a sub-group of the well-known Waorani, and another is known as the 'Pananujuri'. notextile. </span>

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Repsol - Oil company

Garcia has publicly suggested the tribes do not exist. In a now notorious article published in Peru's El Comercio newspaper, he wrote: <blockquote>'In opposition to oil, (environmentalists) have created the figure of an 'uncontacted' Amazon native; that's to say, unknown but presumed to exist.'</blockquote> The president appears not to realise his own government has already recognised the tribes' existence. His comments also came just six weeks after the publication of a photo of 21 uncontacted Indians on El Comercio's front page. Garcia's policies have met with outright condemnation from indigenous groups in Peru. A new set of laws passed recently met with protests all over the Amazon because they made it easier for outsiders to gain control of indigenous land.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Since coming to power in 2006, Peru's president Garcia has shown he is determined to open up as much of the Amazon as possible to oil and gas exploration.* More and more companies have signed contracts with Peru's government and 72% of the Amazon is now under threat. Many of these areas are inhabited by vulnerable "uncontacted tribes":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes. notextile. </span>

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Alan García - President of Peru

Perupetro has made its position regarding uncontacted indians clear. In an interview on Peruvian TV the chairman, Daniel Saba, said the existence of such tribes is an 'absurd' idea. <img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets-production.survival-international.org/pictures/224/logo_news_medium.jpg" width="125" height="83" style="border: solid 1px #777; margin-left: 10px; float: right;" /> Another Perupetro spokesperson compared them to the Loch Ness monster, saying 'Everyone seems to have seen or heard about uncontacted peoples, but there is no evidence.' Perupetro has already signed contracts with companies like Petrobras, Pluspetrol, "Perenco":/about/perenco, "Repsol-YPF":/about/repsol and "Petrolifera":/petrolifera to work in uncontacted tribes' territories.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Perupetro contracts oil and gas companies to work in Peru. To date, 72% of the Peruvian Amazon has been opened up to companies.* Some of these regions are home to vulnerable "uncontacted tribes":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes. A loophole in Peruvian law explicitly allows companies to work on their land. notextile. </span>

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Perupetro - Peruvian national oil firm

The region where Petrobras is working covers most of a reserve created for the Murunahua in 1997. A loophole in Peruvian law says companies can work in these reserves. notextile. <img src="http://assets2.survival-international.org/pictures/237/logo_petrobras_news_medium.gif" width="125" height="83" style="border: solid 1px #777; margin-bottom: 15px; float: right;" /> Some Murunahua have already been contacted and an estimated 50% of them died as a result. This happened after illegal mahogany loggers invaded their land. The number of uncontacted Murunahua is unclear. It is likely that there is at least one other uncontacted tribe in the region too.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Brazilian state oil company Petrobras has a contract to explore for oil in the south-east of Peru in an area inhabited by the uncontacted Murunahua (or Chitonahua) tribe.* This is despite the fact that Brazilian government policy is not to make contact with "uncontacted Indians":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes. notextile. </span>

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The "existence of the uncontacted Cacataibo is clear":/tribes/isolatedperu/theevidence. One organization in Peru, the IBC, has collected many testimonies proving their existence. <img src="http://assets3.survival-international.org/pictures/238/petrolifera_news_medium.jpg" width="125" height="83" style="border: solid 1px #777; margin-bottom: 15px; float: right;" /> These Indians were cut off from other members of the Cacataibo tribe in the first half of the 20th century, and were then split into two groups by a highway running from a jungle town, Pucallpa, to the capital city, Lima. The two groups have been separated ever since. The Cacataibo are trapped and losing land on all sides. In addition to Petrolifera, loggers and colonists are also invading their territory.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Petrolifera is a Canadian company exploring for oil on land inhabited by "uncontacted Cacataibo Indians":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes in Peru.* Despite being condemned by a local indigenous organisation, Petrolifera is determined to work in the region. Some seismic tests have already been carried out. notextile. </span>

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Petrolifera website*":http://www.petrolifera.ca/ h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted tribes of Peru*":/tribes/isolatedperu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*News: Government drops plans to open up uncontacted tribes’ reserves*":/news/3292 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Uncontacted Tribes campaign*":/campaigns/uncontactedtribes h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div><br /><br /><br />

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Petrolifera - Canadian oil firm in Peru

People have always placed great value on wood. Long used as the primary source of fuel by people around the world, demand for it today mainly stems from its use in construction or in making furniture, tools and even car dashboards. Logging affects tribal peoples in different ways – depending on how the relevant government sees it, or the type of wood being targeted. Sometimes loggers operate with the government’s permission. It grants licences to work on tribal land, often without the tribe’s consent. Other times, loggers invade tribal peoples’ land without any permission at all. In both cases, the loggers’ presence is devastating: tribal peoples’ homes are chopped down and transported to a sawmill or market, sawn and sold. h2. Case studies h3. Uncontacted tribes in Peru Logging is one of the biggest threats to "uncontacted tribes in Peru":/tribes/isolatedperu. The country is home to some of the world’s last commercially-viable mahogany trees. Coincidentally, and tragically, these trees are in the same parts of the Peruvian Amazon as some of the world’s last uncontacted Indians. notextile. <p><div style="float:right; margin-left: 10px; "><img src="/lib/img/tagpages/logging.jpg" style="border: solid 1px #777;"><br /><small>Mahogany stacked high on a river bank<br />in Peru's Amazon. © Survival</small></div> Loggers are often armed and may shoot at the Indians if they come across them. Violent encounters have been reported and, in the mid-1990s, when loggers made contact with the previously uncontacted Murunahua tribe, an estimated half of the Murunahua died. Logging activity "has forced some uncontacted Indians to flee across the border into nearby Brazil":/news/4333. Brazilian government officials have photographed houses built by the Indians and collected arrows belonging to them. h3. The Penan, Malaysia "The Penan":/tribes/penan have suffered from logging since the 1970s. Their land has been devastated: the trees chopped down and game scared off, the rivers silted up and fish killed. Towards the end of last year the Penan accused "workers from two Malaysian logging companies of harassing and raping Penan women":/blog/2009/04/20/sexual-abuse-by-loggers-plagues-penan-women/, including school-girls. The most notorious logging company is Samling. Many Penan have taken matters into their own hands, setting up blockades in order to try and keep the loggers out. This is a sign of how desperate their plight is: the blockades often bring shortages of food, as well as reprisals from loggers or government authorities. h2. Take action Communities affected by logging need you to pressure governments into protecting their land rights. Speak up for the uncontacted peoples of Peru. Its government is subject to some local pressure. "*Your letters will keep up the vital international effort.*":/actnow/writealetter/isolatedindians "*Support the Penan by pressuring the local authorities of Sarawak.*":/actnow/writealetter/penan

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Logging is a highly profitable and destructive business. Many companies and groups supplying the industry are prepared to do whatever it takes to get their hands on wood.* This is often at the expense of tribal peoples. Loggers destroy the forests that serve as their homes, their main source of food, and the foundations of their societies and cultures. Loggers also bring "disease, drugs and dependency to tribal peoples":/campaigns/progresscankill. notextile. </span>

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Peru's uncontacted tribes*":/tribes/isolatedperu <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Penan*":/tribes/penan <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*_Progress can kill_ campaign*":/campaigns/progresscankill h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. Sacred At the centre of the struggle is the Dongria’s sacred mountain, the ‘mountain of law’. The Dongrias worship the top of the mountain as the seat of their god and protect the forests there. <div><object width="380" height="232"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4tuTFZ3wXQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&showinfo=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R4tuTFZ3wXQ&hl=en_GB&fs=1&showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="380" height="232"></embed></object><br /><div style="color: #555; margin-bottom: 10px;"><small>Survival's short movie captures the voice of the Dongria Kondh as they face Vedanta's incursions.</small></div></div> Vedanta Resources wants to mine the bauxite from the top of the same mountain. The Dongria Kondh would lose their livelihood, their identity and the sanctity of their most religious site. In common with other "displaced tribal peoples worldwide":/campaigns/progresscankill, they would also lose their present good health, their self-sufficiency and their expert knowledge of the hills, forests and farming systems that they have nurtured.

<img src="/lib/img/tagpages/niyamgiri.jpg" style="border: 1px #333 solid;" /><br /> <span style="color: #666; font-size: 12px;">Dongria Kondh man in Niyamgiri's forests.<br />© Jason Taylor</span>

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *The Niyamgiri Hills form a mountain range in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa.* They are home to more than 8,000 of the "Dongria Kondh":/dongria people, whose lifestyle and religion have helped nurture the area’s dense forests and unusually rich wildlife. Yet a British company, "Vedanta Resources":/vedanta, is determined to mine their sacred mountain's rich seam of bauxite (aluminium ore). notextile. </span>

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Vedanta Resources*":/vedanta <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*7,000 march against British mining company Vedanta*":/news/4105 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Dongria Kondh's sacred mountain*":/tribes/dongria/sacredmountain <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*'Progress can kill' campaign*":/campaigns/progresscankill h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. Power and influence With increasing wealth has come increasing power. Mr Agarwal donated considerable sums to the two biggest political parties in India. The advisory committee of "India’s Supreme Court":http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=1554 has stated that the way in which Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery secured environmental clearance ‘smacks of undue favour/leniency’. "Norway’s Council on Ethics":http://www.regjeringen.no/upload/FIN/Statens%20pensjonsfond/Recommendation_Vedanta.pdf details how Vedanta and Mr Agarwal have been accused of ‘corruption, fraud, forgery, manipulation of share prices, and insider trading.’ h2. Agarwal’s empire Mr Agarwal’s empire – Vedanta Resources – now spans four continents, with offices in London and operations in Zambia, Australia and India. He owns more than 50% of the shares in the company, earning him a place among the richest thirty people in Britain. Vedanta Resources was "criticised by the UK government":/news/4980 for not having a human rights policy. The government said 'a change in the company's behaviour' is 'essential'. The following video shows the reaction of local people to Anil Agarwal's company's activities. {% film 11 %} <br /> h2. A promise to the Dongria Kondh On the issue of the "Dongria Kondh":/tribes/dongria, Mr Agarwal said at "Vedanta’s 2008 AGM":http://www.survival-international.org/news/3552: ‘I can only promise that we will only start work if we have the complete permission of the Court and the people.’ In August 2008 he obtained "clearance from the Supreme Court":http://www.survival-international.org/news/3581, but – as shown by the many protests in Orissa and beyond – Mr Agarwal has yet to get the permission of the people. In January 2009, however, Mr Agarwal publicly stated that mining Niyamgiri would begin ‘in a month or two’.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Anil Agarwal, Chairman and founder of "Vedanta Resources":/vedanta, has worked his way up from scrap-metal dealer to billionaire.* The tricks to his trade have been to buy cheap second-hand industrial plants, and newly-privatised companies at low prices. notextile. </span>

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Vedanta's website*":http://www.vedantaresources.com/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Sterlite Industries' website*":http://www.sterlite-industries.com/index1.asp <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*The Times, UK - 'Vedanta refused licence'*":http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article2933475.ece h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*News: UK government blasts Vedanta*":/news/4980 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*'Behind the lies': Vedanta's PR offensive*":/behindthelies <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*7,000 march against British mining company Vedanta*":/news/4105 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*'Progress can kill' campaign*":/campaigns/progresscankill h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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The Norwegian Government’s Pension Fund withdrew its investment in Vedanta following a report by their Council of Ethics that an association with Vedanta and its subsidiaries carries, ‘an unacceptable risk of complicity in present and future severe environmental damage and systematic human rights violations.’ CO3 is at risk of such complicity by continuing to provide Vedanta with 'CSR' services. h2. 'Independent' CO3 has publicly defended Vedanta's plans to mine Niyamgiri, but describes itself as an 'independent advisor' to the company. Many multinational corporations use similar 'independent consultancies' to provide a veneer of respectability. The 8,000 Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most isolated tribes, vehemently oppose the mine, saying it will end their way of life forever. Vedanta plans to turn the Dongria’s sacred mountain into a vast open cast mine, which will destroy a swathe of untouched forest. The Dongria Kondh have lived in the Niyamgiri Hills since time immemorial, and are totally dependent on its forests. They grow crops on the slopes, and gather wild fruit in the dense forests. The Dongria Kondh say that Vedanta has not consulted them about its plans to mine on their lands. h2. 'Parroting' Vedanta's denials Survival’s director Stephen Corry has said, ‘People who care about human rights should boycott British companies which dispossess tribal peoples and companies representing them. That includes British consultancies like CO3, which parrots Vedanta’s denials that the Dongria Kondh people face destruction’.

<span style="color: #FFF; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.05em;">‘Please take a word of advice. Getting on the wrong side of us is not sensible.’</span> <br /><span style="color: #FFF; font-size: 0.8em;">In an e-mail from CO3 to Survival, December 2008</span>

*CO3 is a London-based 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR) consultancy which represents multinational corporations including mining company Vedanta Resources.* Survival has called on CO3 to resign its account with Vedanta over the mining company's controversial plans to mine India's Niyamgiri hills, the lands of the Dongria Kondh people. CO3 has so far refused to do so.

h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*CO3's website*":http://www.co3.coop/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Vedanta's website*":http://www.vedantaresources.com/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*PR Week: Survival targets CSR agency*":http://www.prweek.com/uk/search/article/859703/Survival-International-targets-CSR-agency/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_facebook_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*CO3 comments on Survival's Facebook page*":http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1118191751997&ref=mf h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Survival targets CSR consultancy CO3*":/news/3887 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*The Dongria Kondh*":/tribes/dongria <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Progress Can Kill*":/progresscankill <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*CO3 comments on Survival's blog*":http://www.survival-international.org/blog/2009/03/13/a-hero-of-philanthropy h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. 'Socially responsible' Barefoot claims that 'sustainable and socially responsible tourism development' is core to its philosophy. The new resort, however, puts the Jarawa’s lives at risk from disease. The Jarawa are already extremely vulnerable, as poachers invade their land and a road cuts through their forest. Survival's report "'Progress Can Kill'":/progresscankill details the devastating effects that disease has had on isolated tribal peoples. h2. 5km buffer zone The authorities have been pressing for a 5km buffer zone around the reserve to prevent the spread of disease to the Jarawa. The new resort lies inside this buffer zone. There are other developments within the buffer zone that also put the Jarawa at risk, and about which Survival is also concerned. The international nature of Barefoot’s clientele, however, significantly increases the risk of introducing infectious diseases. h2. War of words Following "Survival's publicity":/news/4663 of the authorities' attempts through the courts to stop the building of the resort, Barefoot accused Survival of libel and defamation and demanded an apology. It then escalated its attacks, saying Survival is 'voyeuristic, deeply offensive, racist' and 'bordering on pornography and promotion of paedophilia'. Survival continues to assert that Barefoot's resort poses a severe risk to the Jarawa and must be closed. Survival will also continue to press the authorities to close the road through the reserve and other developments important to Jarawa welfare, as it has been doing for more than 10 years.

Barefoot is a travel company with resorts in the Andaman Islands. Its guests have apparently included Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet. Barefoot has a new resort close to the islands' "Jarawa":/tribes/jarawa reserve, set up to protect the recently contacted Jarawa tribal people from intrusion. Government authorities on the Andamans want to close it, and Survival also opposes the resort.

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*The Jarawa*":/tribes/jarawa <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*Progress Can Kill report*":/progresscankill <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*'Celebrity resort threatens isolated tribes'*":/news/4663 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_pdf_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*Survival's responses to Barefoot*":http://asset.survival-international.org/static/Survival_responses_to_barefoot.pdf <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_pdf_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*Barefoot's responses to Survival*":http://asset.survival-international.org/static/Barefoot_responses_to_survival.pdf h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_wikipedia_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarawa_(Andaman_Islands)">*Jarawa article on Wikipedia*</a> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Barefoot official website*":http://www.barefootindia.com/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Barefoot's response to Survival*":http://rtnetworking.org/ngo/bfresponse.htm h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a><br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. The health gap Tribal peoples are at greater risk from swine flu because many are living in poverty, even in affluent countries, with severe underlying health problems. Chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and alcoholism, are often higher in tribal communities, putting them at greater risk of complications from swine flu. In Australia, Aborigines, who have a life expectancy 15-20 years less than non-Aborigines, account for almost one in ten deaths from swine flu. In Canada, First Nations communities in Manitoba have seen infection rates of 130 per 100,000, compared with 24 per 100,000 among the general population. See Survival’s report, "Progress Can Kill":/progresscankill, which explains the reasons behind the health gap. h2. Isolated tribes Isolated tribes, those with little or no regular contact with non-indigenous populations, lack immunity to outside diseases. Even the common cold can prove fatal to isolated peoples who have never been exposed to the virus before. <div class="intheirwords" style="float: right; background-color: #EEEEEE; color: #3D3D3D; letter-spacing: -0.05em; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; width: 200px; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div style="float: left; width: 10px; font-size: 40px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 15px;"><span style="color: #de775e;">‘</span></div><div style="float: left; width: 160px; padding: 10px 5px 15px 5px; line-height: 150%;">I believe that this pandemic will reveal what it means, in life-and-death terms, when health needs and health systems have been neglected, for decades, in large parts of the world.<small style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 0.65em;display: block; color: #555555; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0.75em;">Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General</small></div><div style="float: right; width: 6px; margin-top: 68%; margin-right: 7px; font-size: 40px;"><span style="color: #de775e;">’</span></div></div> Swine flu has already "struck members of the Matsigenka tribe":/news/4860 in the Peruvian Amazon, leading to fears of a devastating contagion amongst isolated tribes with no immunity to outside diseases. In times of a global pandemic, it is even more important for the land rights of isolated peoples to be recognized and protected. Any encroachment on their land could introduce swine flu to the tribes with disastrous consequences. h2. Action Survival is urging governments and healthcare agencies across the world to make special provisions for tribal peoples during the swine flu pandemic.

notextile. <span style="font-size: 1.15em;"> *Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are known to have contracted swine flu; more than a thousand have died from the virus. The WHO has declared a global flu pandemic.* Tribal peoples are particularly vulnerable to swine flu. Those that are isolated lack immunity to fight outside diseases, while those in regular contact with outsiders often suffer underlying health problems which increase the risk from the virus. notextile. </span>

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Progress Can Kill - Survival's campaign on tribal people's health*":/progresscankill <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Amazon Indians struck by swine flu*":/news/4860 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />"*Tourism threat to recently-contacted tribe*":/news/4748 h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*WHO situation update*":http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_08_04/en/index.html <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*The Lancet indigenous health report*":http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2960914-4/fulltext#article_upsell <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Flu risk for indigenous peoples*":http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8132069.stm h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a> (<a href="/news/about-feeds">what's this?</a>)<br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. Land rights Several Penan villages have filed land rights claims in the Malaysian courts for areas over which Samling holds logging concessions. One of these cases has been pending in the courts since 1998. The company claims on its website that it ‘operate[s] within the confines of the law which the government prescribes,’ and that in the legal disputes in which it is involved, ‘the real issue concerns the government and the local communities’. However, Samling executive James Ho said in an interview on Swiss television in 2007, ‘The Penan have no rights to the forest.’ <div class="intheirwords" style="float: right; background-color: #EEEEEE; color: #3D3D3D; letter-spacing: -0.05em; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: bold; width: 210px; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div style="float: left; width: 15px; font-size: 60px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 25px;"><span style="color: #de775e;">‘</span></div><div style="float: left; width: 150px; padding: 10px 10px 15px 10px; line-height: 150%;">Samling is trying to log all the trees in our forest. When they enter the area we will lose everything.<small style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 0.65em;display: block; color: #555555; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0.75em;">Penan man, Long Kerong</small></div><div style="float: right; width: 20px; margin-top: 70%; font-size: 60px;"><span style="color: #de775e;">’</span></div></div> A report released in September 2009 by the Malaysian Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development verified allegations that Penan women and girls had been raped by logging company workers. Samling workers were among those whom "the Penan had accused of abuse":http://blog.survivalinternational.org/2009/04/20/sexual-abuse-by-loggers-plagues-penan-women/. The Penan suspect that community leader Kelesau Naan, who disappeared in October 2007 and was later found dead, may have been killed due to his opposition to Samling's logging activities. The company also has operations in Peninsular Malaysia, China, New Zealand, Australia and Guyana.

*Samling is a Malaysian logging company which is destroying forests belonging to "the Penan tribe in Sarawak":/tribes/penan, in the Malaysian part of Borneo.* Samling has been operating on Penan land for many years, without the tribe’s consent. The Penan have repeatedly mounted blockades to try to keep the company out. Many Penan have been arrested and imprisoned for their opposition to the company’s activities. The Penan are now fighting to stop Samling logging their last remaining areas of intact forest.

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*'Government report confirms Penan girls were raped by loggers'*":/news/4940 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*'Logging protests spread in Borneo as nomads block roads'*":/news/4889 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*The Penan*":/tribes/penan <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*Progress Can Kill report*":/progresscankill h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Samling website*":http://www.samling.com/ h2. Keep up to date notextile. <form name="enewsform" id="enewsform" action="http://list-manage.com/subscribe/post" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="u" value="b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="241e47c256"> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/feed.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <a href="http://feeds.survival-international.org/SurvivalInternational"><strong>Survival news feed</strong></a><br /> <img src="/lib/img/structure/icons/email_add.png" width="16" height="16" class="icon" /> <strong>By e-mail</strong> <div style="margin-left: 21px;"><form><input type="text" class="textbox" value="your@email.com" onfocus="if(this.value=='your@email.com') {this.value = '';}"style="font-size: 12px;" name="EMAIL" /><br /> <input type="checkbox" id="enews_signup" checked="checked" /> <label for="enews_signup">Sign me up for monthly e-news</label><br /> <input type="submit" value="Go »" /> </form> </div>

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h2. ‘The world is ill’ In the Arctic the ice is melting and the lives of the Inuit are dramatically changing. _‘It has become so serious that several coastal villages are now actively trying to figure out where to move entire communities,’_ says one Inuit leader. In the Amazon hundreds of tribes are predicted to suffer from less rainfall, more droughts, and higher temperatures. In 2005 there was a severe drought, leading to several Amazon tributaries drying up. Davi Yanomami, known as the "‘Dalai Lama of the Rainforest’":/news/4614, declared, _'The rains come late. The sun behaves in a strange way. The world is ill. The lungs of the sky are polluted. We know it is happening. You cannot go on destroying nature.’_ h2. ‘The most inconvenient truth of all’ Equally important, but barely recognised, is the impact that measures to _stop_ climate change are having, or may have, on indigenous people. These ‘mitigation measures’, such as biofuels, hydroelectric power, forest conservation, and carbon offsetting, violate indigenous peoples’ rights and make it easier for governments, companies and others to lay claim to, exploit and, in some cases, destroy their land – like climate change itself. Here are a few examples of how indigenous people around the world have been, or may be, affected: * The "Guarani in Brazil are losing their land":/tribes/guarani/despair to sugar cane to be turned into ethanol as part of president Lula’s attempt to ‘green’ Brazil’s energy resources and fight climate change. "*Write a letter for the Guarani to Brazil's government »*":/actnow/writealetter/guarani * The "Penan and other indigenous people in Malaysia":/tribes/penan/dams are being driven off their land to make way for "hydroelectric dams":/about/dams. These dams have been promoted by the local government as ‘very much in line with the objective of reducing and containing global warming.’ "*Give the Penan your support with a letter to the Minister responsible »*":/actnow/writealetter/penan * The "Ogiek in Kenya":/tribes/ogiek have been told to leave their homes in the Mau Forest "for conservation purposes":/news/5158. Kenya’s prime minister has cited the evictions as a key way to ‘reverse the ravages’ of global warming. "*Tell the Kenyan authorities to protect the Ogiek's rights »*":/actnow/writealetter/ogiek * Indigenous people all over the world are threatened by global schemes to stop deforestation and which could spark massive land grabs. One of these schemes, ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD) does not acknowledge indigenous peoples’ rights to give their full, prior and informed consent to projects on their land. notextile. <div style="float: left;"><a href="/actnow/writealetter"><img src="http://assets.survivalinternational.org/images/content/mine_letter_icon.jpg" width="56px"></a></div><div style="float: left; margin" 0 0 0 10px;"><a href="/actnow/writealetter"><strong><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Write to the people who can stop<br />these atrocities »</span></strong></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /> "*Read Survival’s report on climate change: _‘The Most Inconvenient Truth of All: Climate Change and Indigenous People’_ (PDF 3.2 mb) »*":http://assets.survivalinternational.org/documents/132/survival_climate_change_report_english.pdf

*Indigenous people are on the frontline of climate change.* They live in parts of the world where its impacts are greatest and depend largely, or exclusively, on the natural environment for their livelihoods, culture and lives. Indigenous people are also threatened by attempts to _stop_ climate change.

h2. From Survival's website <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*Climate change and tribal peoples' report*":http://assets.survivalinternational.org/documents/132/survival_climate_change_report_english.pdf <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_survival_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" />  "*'Moves to stop global warming are devastating tribal people’, says new report*":/news/5273 h2. From the web <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_youtube_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*Survival representatives speak about climate change*":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzKRW2WzwE0 <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*REDD Monitor – Analysis, opinion and news on REDD'*":http://www.redd-monitor.org/ <img src="/lib/img/structure/icon_web_16x16.png" class="icon" width="16" height="16" alt="*" /> "*UN REDD website*":http://www.undp.org/mdtf/un-redd

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