Philippines: Minister threatens campaigners
The Philippines' Environment Minister has threatened local and foreign campaigners with arrest if they continue to 'agitate communities'.
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Brazil: uncontacted tribe faces genocide
Deep in the Amazon rainforest a small tribe of uncontacted Indians is on the run, fleeing chainsaws and bulldozers as logging companies penetrate their forest home.
Wildlife official quizzed over Reserve's management plan
Cross-examined by the Bushmen's legal team, the civil servant responsible for wildlife parks admitted being mistaken in his assumption that the Cabinet had to approve the management plan for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Government lawyer threatens 'CKGR tour'
Sidney Pilane, the government's principal lawyer in the Bushmen relocation court case, today threatened to submit an application for the court to tour the Central Kalahari Game Reserve again.
Bushmen evicted 'so they could be protected against game'
The government attorney in the Bushmen court case has explained the Bushmen's eviction by telling the court, 'It was decided that residents should be in areas where they could be protected against game.'
Jubilant Indians thank Survival supporters
An Indian organisation in northern Brazil has sent a message of thanks to Survival supporters after winning back their land.
Kalahari ecologist: Bushmen live better in reserve
Kalahari ecologist Arthur Albertson told Botswana's high court this week that the Gana and Gwi Bushmen's lives were better in the Central Kalahari where they could hunt and gather than in the government eviction camps.
CIA named Papua 'cannibal land'
In 1962, President Kennedy instructed the Netherlands to hand Papua over to Indonesia, rather than granting it independence.