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We will fight to the last drop of our blood. And we will win. The health of the planet depends on this struggle. Amazon Guardians

The world’s most vulnerable uncontacted tribes are being targeted by miners and loggers using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover.

Miners, loggers target uncontacted tribes’ lands under cover of Covid-19

May 15, 2020

The world’s most vulnerable uncontacted tribes are being targeted by miners and loggers using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover.

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We’re So Certain of Our Colonialist Selves That We’re Destroying Our Own Planet

Common Dreams (US)

July 16, 2020

'Amazon gold rush: illegal mining threatens Brazil's last major isolated tribe'

Thomson Reuters Foundation

June 25, 2020

Sumatran forest people adapt ancient health rules for pandemic

Thomson Reuters Foundation

June 25, 2020

EU suspends funding to WWF’s flagship African project after persistent abuses

May 13, 2020

The EU suspends its funding of controversial WWF project that aimed to create a protected area in the Congo Basin.

Victory: evangelical missionaries barred from uncontacted tribes’ land

April 17, 2020

In a landmark ruling, a Brazilian judge has blocked evangelical missionaries from making contact with uncontacted tribes in Brazil.

Survival International calls for protection of indigenous territories as “a matter of life and death”

April 3, 2020

The protection of indigenous lands is critical to prevent thousands of tribal people dying from coronavirus.

Amazon Guardian, indigenous land defender, shot dead in Brazil

April 1, 2020

Zezico Guajajara, an indigenous Amazon Guardian, has been shot dead.

Davi Yanomami warns uncontacted Yanomami in Brazil “could soon be exterminated”

March 24, 2020

Davi Kopenawa warns that uncontacted Yanomami “could soon be exterminated” if the Brazilian authorities do not act now.

“The doors are now open”: indigenous people denounce missionaries targeting uncontacted tribes

March 11, 2020

NTM announce that they will shortly start using a helicopter to convert previously unreachable tribes.

Survival International launches 2020 tribal photography competition on “Resilience and Pride”

February 26, 2020

Survival International is proud to announce its renowned annual photography competition, welcoming entries from both amateur and professional photographers worldwide.

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