“Conservation must be led by Indigenous Peoples, because we know better.” Nairobi: A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including ...

We, the Indigenous Peoples of the world, are the guardians who have an embedded customary relationship with our lands, waters and territories. Our ecosystems do not belong to us, we belong to them. We ...

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami is a shaman from the Yanomami tribe. He is the only member of his tribe to have written a book, called The Falling Sky. The Yanomami live in the Amazon in Brazil and Venezuela, ...

Survival’s Sarah Shenker reports on her visit to the Guajajara Guardians – Indigenous people in Brazil who are fighting to protect the forest and an uncontacted tribe from loggers “We are here,” says ...

For tens of thousands of years, people have used their handprints to signal their existence. The hands in Survival’s logo are a message that tribal peoples live in the here and now and must have their ...

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) offers a flexible way for philanthropists to direct their giving towards the causes they care most about. You can contribute cash, shares or other assets to your ...

In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Steven Pinker promotes a fictitious, colonialist image of a backward “Brutal Savage,” which pushes the debate on tribal peoples’ rights back over a century ...

This page was last updated in 2013 and may contain language which is now outdated. India’s Dongria Kondh tribe has overwhelmingly rejected plans by notorious British mining giant Vedanta Resources for ...

This report, compiled by Survival International for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), relevant United Nations Special Rapporteurs and other relevant UN officials, ...

Dozens of police officers in India have arrested the prominent Indigenous rights activist Pranab Doley, and two other men. Two others surrendered to the court after police came looking for them.