Leading British artist Kurt Jackson is donating the monies from the sale of six works of art from his new exhibition 'Forest Gardens' (15-31 January 2009 at Messum's, 8 Cork Street, London W1S 3LJ) to Survival International.
Bangladesh’s High Court yesterday ordered the release on bail of Ranglai Mro, leader of the remote Mru people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, after almost two years in prison.
The new government of Bangladesh, which swept to power in a landslide election victory on 29 December, has committed itself to honouring the 1997 peace accord with the Jumma tribal people.
A blockade mounted by 50 protestors stopped British mining company Vedanta entering the land of the Dongria Kondh tribe under cover of darkness last night.
An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 1000 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians.
Contact with the outside world is bringing death to the tribes of the Andaman Islands, who famously survived the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
The Colombian army has assassinated an Indigenous Colombian man.
The biggest tribal news story of 2008 was the publication of photos of an uncontacted tribe on the Brazil-Peru border, says Survival International.