Films

Simon Counsell on Blood Carbon

Simon Counsell, Survival International consultant and former Director of Rainforest Foundation UK...

"Fake conservationists are torturing us in the name of conservation and Project Tiger"

Shivu, a young leader from the Jenu Kuruba tribe, condemns the celebration of Project Tiger’s 50t...

"What the conservationists are doing is so bad"

WWF is supporting the creation of a new protected area in Congo, Messok Dja. The Baka haven’t giv...

Xavante Cisappe (low res.english)

"Our area is being deforested by an oil palm plantation"

The forest that the Berawan, Tering and Penan communities rely on for their survival is being des...

"Is the air the President breathes different to the air we breathe?"

Reginaldo Apyawa and his relatives have sent you this message from a ritual gathering in the cent...

"We must defend the rights of uncontacted tribes"

Ninawa Huni Kui from the western Brazilian Amazon calls for Indigenous lands to be protected, and...

"We were forcibly evicted from our land"

India’s Supreme Court has just ordered the forced eviction of up to 8 million tribal people and o...

"Our land is crying out for help"

The Indigenous Guardians of the Amazon are risking their lives to fight against illegal loggers a...

“He doesn’t intimidate us”

The Indigenous people of Brazil are fighters. Guarani leader Jaqueline Guarani Kaiowá has a messa...

"The main problem we, Indigenous Peoples, see is that nature is being traded"

"The main problem we, Indigenous Peoples, see is that nature is being traded" -- Learn more: ht...

“They are learning lots in a different way”

For millions of children, the pandemic meant staying away from school for several months. Recorde...

"Our spirits are in our tekohá – ancestral land"

Guarani prayer leader Getúlio explains his people's deep connection with their ancestral land in ...

“It’s time we went back. We need the government to help us return to our territory.”

The Nukak have to return NOW to their territory. More than 30 years ago, missionaries, armed gro...

"The Earth needs peace, like us"

There are over 20,000 illegal miners in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory - they're deforesting t...

“The 30% [plan] is a dispossession of land and a land grab”

The plan to turn 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas is the biggest land grab in history, a dis...

“Our land is being invaded”

Tainaky Tenetehar from the Guajajara people explains why some of his relatives are choosing to re...

220218 EN Embera Chami-ONIC - Gerardo on Ayoreo TWITTER

Gerardo Jumi of ONIC (National Indigenous Organization of Colombia) speaks in support of the Ayor...

"Our forest has been taken over by miners. That's why I'm here."

The artist and activist Ehuana Yaira Yanomami spoke out about the Yanomami genocide at a seminar ...

Indigenous Peoples Day 2023

Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of biodiversity - 80% of the world’s biodiversity is fo...

“Now, we have become free”

Célestin, from the Baka people in the Congo, explains that the appalling violence they faced for ...

#UncontactedTribesWeek 2023

Survival’s the only organization that’s fighting for the rights of #UncontactedTribes around the ...

#BloodCarbon: Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT)’s carbon offsetting project explained

In this webinar organized by Survival International, independent researcher Simon Counsell and ec...

Uncontacted Amazon Tribe: First ever aerial footage

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org For the first time, extraordinary aerial footage of one of the ...

Seeing (PSA 30 sec)

There are many different ways of living on this planet, who's to say their way is best?

Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain (Full Version)

Find out what happened next! http://vimeo.com/27586761 The Dongria Kondh are one of India’s most...

Strength In Numbers: Tribe vs Corporation

Join the movement for tribal peoples: http://www.survivalinternational.org The Dongria Kondh tri...

Uncontacted forest

Uncontacted forest

Tribal Pets

The Awá tribe are extraordinary pet keepers: most families have many more pets than people, from ...

On the tracks

On the tracks

Hunting cam

An uncontacted tribe is being wiped out to produce electric car batteries

A unique uncontacted tribe in Indonesia and their rainforest home is being destroyed by nickel mi...

"Go and tell them that we don’t want to give away our forest”

Listen to Hairani and Toraji, two nomadic Hongana Manyawa from Halmahera, Indonesia, decrying the...

NRT is doing the wrong thing that I find unjust to our people - Borana leader, Kenya

A leader of the Borana #Indigenous people from Kenya, describes the devastating impact that the N...

#BloodCarbon

Survival is launching a new campaign to stop greenwashing "carbon offsetting" projects on Indigen...

The Nukak will always fight for our family: Alex, Nukak people

“The Nukak will always fight for our family. A big and terrible struggle”. Alex Tinyú, an #Ind...

Join the movement for Indigenous rights

Despite the massive obstacles they face, #Indigenous people around the world are fighting for the...

"The children depend on us"

Listen to Olímpio Guajajara explain why humanity should be concerned about the #climate crisis - ...

Uncontacted tribes

There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world. They aren’t primitive relics...

Dr Mordecai Ogada on "The Big Conservation Lie"

Dr Mordecai Ogada introduces the case against big conservation organizations in his new book: how...

Introducing: Tribal Voice

Tribal Voice: unheard voices, unique perspectives. More than one hundred and fifty million men, ...

Burning truck of illegal loggers

Awá: people and animals

The Awá tribe have an extraordinarily close relationship with their pets: most families have many...

Guardians of the Amazon

The Guajajara Guardians explain why they need your support to help protect the Amazon and their u...

BREAKING: Uncontacted Awá footage

Images filmed during a chance encounter. © Guardians of the Amazon Uncontacted tribes are the mo...

The Last of his Tribe

This video shows the last of his tribe: a man whose entire family and people were wiped out by vi...

The Last of the Kawahiva

Watch this video narrated by Mark Rylance who spearheaded our global campaign to ensure the prote...

BREAKING: uncontacted Kawahiva caught on camera

The Kawahiva were caught on camera in a chance encounter with FUNAI workers. This is some of the ...

"They beat me, pounded up chilli pepper and rubbed it over my body"

The Baka tribe in the Congo Basin are accused of poaching when they hunt to feed their families. ...

World Rhino Day: A message from Kaziranga

Pranab from the Mising tribe in Kaziranga National Park in India explains why it's so urgent that...

Kanha Tiger Reserve

A Baiga man from Kanha Tiger Reserve in India describes why his tribe must be allowed to remain o...

Achanakmar Tiger Reserve

Evictions from Achanakmar Tiger Reserve have been taking place since 2009. The evicted Baiga now ...

BBC: Kaziranga Tiger Reserve

Tribal people living around Kaziranga face arrest, beatings, torture and death under the park’s n...

Stop The Con

Find out why Tesia cares so much about stopping the conservation con, and what she did to launch ...

Contacting the Korubo

An unique video clip showing FUNAI (the Brazilian Indian Affairs Department) making contact with ...

Baka abused in the name of conservation

The Baka tribe in Congo have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of WWF-funded park rangers...

Colonialism vs. Conservation

People have been comparing big conservation with colonialism... do they have a point?

Beast with Metal Skin

In 1994 a bulldozer driver clearing the forest at night was attacked out of the darkness. Althoug...

"It was beautiful here"

An Enawene Nawe man tells of his anguish over the deforestation of his tribe's territory by ranch...

"Blood flows for our land"

Gunmen hired by Paulo César Quartiero, a local farmer and politician, attack a Makuxi Indian comm...

Vengence of the Yakairiti

Brazil's Enawene Nawe rely on the forest and the rivers. How will their ancestral spirits respond...

Uncontacted Tribes

There are more than one hundred uncontacted tribes around the world. They aren’t primitive relics...

Contact and Death in the Amazon

Brazil's uncontacted tribes are being devastated by disease, but there is hope. Learn more: https...

Most Isolated

On India's remote Andaman Islands, the world's most isolated tribe has lived alone for up to 55,0...

Black Oil, Red Gold

Peru's uncontacted tribes are facing the gravest threat in their history as loggers and oil compa...

The Akuntsu's Last Dance

In a small patch of rainforest in Brazil, the last survivors of a genocide dance. Act now to #St...

From the Kalahari to Court

The extraordinary story of how the Bushmen of the Kalahari took their government to court and won...

Crisis Point

As bulldozers and cattle ranchers encroach further into their territory the Ayoreo of Paraguay ar...

Virgin Forest

The Batak of the Philippines reveal the devastation caused to their land by illegal loggers and r...

"His voice is not silenced"

In this emotional interview, Marcos Verón's daughter-in-law tells Survival researcher Fiona Watso...

Poachers

Jarawa denounce poachers who invade their land. This group was filmed as they voluntarily came ou...

"No people is better than another."

Two Brazilian Indigenous people from Raposa-Serra do Sol, Jacir José de Souza and Pierlangela Nas...

A Tragic First Contact

Jorge, a Murunahua man who lost his eye when he was shot by loggers during first contact, recalls...

The Evidence

The Peruvian government has denied they exist but the evidence is irrefutable. In this short vide...

"Our land is our heritage"

Leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, speaks about what the proposed mining bill would mean f...

We live for our Niyamgiri: Dongria Kondh tribe, India

The Dongria Kondh have lived in Niyamgiri for thousands of years and their lifestyle and religion...

"Not even this handful of soil"

The Dongria Kondh explain why they vehemently oppose the building of a mine on their land and wha...

On the Run

The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes left in Brazil but their forest is dwi...

CNN: Sentinelese

After the tsunami in 2004, CNN covered the survival of the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands and...

Tribes of the Andamans

An introduction to the tribes of the Andaman Islands. Learn more: svlint.org/whoareuncontacted

Sacred Sites

Short documentary revealing how Indigenous Australians prepared their claim for land rights.

An appeal from Richard Gere

Filmed in 1995, Richard Gere explains why he supports Survival International.

Encounters with the Uncontacted

Two Peruvian men share their account of seeing an uncontacted tribe. Learn more: svlint.org/unco...

Awá feature on BBC Four

BBC reporter Mike Donkin investigates the increasing invasions into Awá land perpetrated by logge...

Let the Innu Live

In support of the Innu, protesters climbed to the top of Nelson's Column in London to reveal a me...

Death at Devil's Bend

An eyewitness account of the violence that erupted after the Peruvian government decided to break...

Massacres in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

An investigative report by World Television News into the terrible violence inflicted upon the Ju...

'Development' comes to the Enxet

Most of the Enxet of Paraguay are now exploited as laborers by the very cattle ranchers who stole...

Indigenous Australians meet the Maasai

In a show of solidarity, Indigenous Australians met with the Maasai in Kenya to share their exper...

Surviving Canada

An extract from a documentary examining the terrible effects that years of injustice have had on ...

Kenya's Castaways

Short film looking at the negative effects Kenya's 'development' processes have had on the Ogiek.

Massana - Moments in Play and Ritual

Short documentary studying the use of roleplay by the Yaka 'Pygmies' in their social rituals. © J...

Swidden Farming

The Batak of the Philippines rely on their traditional farming methods. Tribal peoples are the be...

A Poison to the Penan

The Penan of Sarawak express anguish over the logging of their land.

Vedanta Smokescreen

Just as the pilgrims 'bought' Manhattan from Indigenous peoples for a handful of trinkets, Vedant...

Doris Pilkington's Bushmen Appeal

Doris Pilkington Garimara, the Aboriginal author of 'Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence', speaks about...

The Bushmen on BBC News

In August 2002, John Simpson reported for BBC News from the Kalahari and from the new eviction si...

An Appeal from Judi Dench

Actress Judi Dench makes an appeal on behalf of Survival International. Get involved: https://sv...

In the Stomach of the Dragon

Documentary made by Small World Productions about the impact of the Grasberg copper and gold mine...

The Eviction of the Bushmen

A film crew from Carte Blanche, a South African investigative TV programme, were the only indepen...

The Grasberg Mine

BBC report on the tension and violence long associated with the Grasberg copper and gold mine in ...

The Hunt

The Nukak are expert hunters. In this extract from 'Nukak-Maku: the last forest nomads', filmed i...

An Appeal from the Penan

Extracts from Gaia Films' "Into the heart of the last paradise", including an appeal from the Pen...

Roadblocks and Chainsaws

This feature from ITV's Go for Green looks at the impact of logging on the Indigenous people of S...

"Soya is killing us," say vegetarian tribe

ITV News report from the Brazilian Amazon on the devastating effects of soya farming on the Enawe...

Gene Hunters

An extract filmed in an Arhuaco village from Gene Hunters, a documentary about the Human Genome D...

Before Columbus

This extract from the documentary Before Columbus, shows how the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, ho...

Contact Mission Sentinelese

Footage from one of many government attempts to establish contact with the Sentinelese by fosteri...

The Bushmen: A Special Report

Television journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts explores the political and economic reasons behind the ev...

Documentary: Endangered Jarawa

A documentary by Journeyman Pictures, filmed at a time when the Jarawa were losing their fear of ...

The Mursi and their cattle

An extract from Granada TV's Disappearing World trilogy on the Mursi. This clip, taken from the f...

A Mursi Ritual

In this extract from the Disappearing World film 'In Search of Cool Ground', the Mursi stage a ri...

Wrestling Contest

The Nuba are famous for their wrestling contests. This clip, filmed in 1991 and taken from 'Kafi'...

Contact Expedition

Film of a government contact mission to the Jarawa. Until 1998, the Jarawa resisted contact with ...

Mobil Explore for Oil

This WTN report looked at the controversy surrounding Mobil's exploration in the Peruvian Amazon,...

Environmental Destruction in Siberia

Presented by Richard Dawkins, this extract from the BBC's Human Rights, Human Wrongs series, look...

Two Worlds of the Innu

An extract from the documentary, 'Two Worlds of the Innu'. Tribal elder Pien Penashue drums and s...

Survival's Greenwashing Award

Is presented to Yaguarete Porá S.A. for dressing up the wholesale destruction of a huge area of t...

Last of the Bo Tribe Sings

Boa Sr, the last member of the Bo tribe, who died in January 2010, sings.

"Before we knew it, we'd all caught pneumonia."

The Matis of Brazil recall the devastating impact of first contact. Learn more: svlint.org/uncon...

Singing and Dancing

The Dongria Kondh of Orissa, India dance.

Brutal Evictions

Ogiek houses were torched and smashed in the latest wave of evictions. Two Ogiek who lost their h...

The Gunmen

A Guaraní community describe the threat posed by gunmen, hired by the ranchers who stole their la...

The Things They Said

The extinction or assimilation of tribal people has been predicted for over 500 years. Wrong then...

"One must have courage"

Despite living through years of injustice, racism and violence, the Guaraní people are resilient ...

A message from Lodu

Abducted Dongria Kondh leader Lodu Sikaka speaks out against Vedanta Resources's proposed mine.

Forest Beekeepers

'Conservation' measures threaten Kenya's Ogiek tribe with eviction from their forest home.

Uncontacted Chaco

A special report from the Paraguayan Chaco. Recently contacted Ayoreo people are worried for the ...

Torture in West Papua

Most of this video is unsuitable for general viewing. Broadcasters can contact Survival for furth...

On the Edge

Brazil's Awá tribe rely on their forest home for survival but intensive logging poses a serious t...

Akuntsu's Last Dance

In a small patch of rainforest in Brazil, the last survivors of a genocide dance. Learn more: sv...

Life in a bubble?

The Zo'é are one of the most isolated of all contacted tribes in Brazil. But are the authorities ...

Ancestral Lands

Having spent nearly two years camped at the side of the road, this Guarani community want to retu...

ILO 169: the international law

Across the world, tribal peoples' lands are being stolen and their communities devastated. ILO Co...

Proud Not Primitve

Indigenous peoples are proud, not primitive.

Lost Forever

The late Boa Sr talks in Bo (her native tongue) and Hindi about her dying language. © Anvita Abbi...

Visiting the well

After 10 years of fighting for their right to stay on their land and have access to water, the Bu...

Timber Thieves

Footage, shot by Brazilian government officials, of trucks illegally taking timber from the Awá t...

The long train

One of the world’s longest trains passes Awá land. Mining giant Vale wants to expand the tracks s...

Recently contacted Awá

Recently Contacted Awá speak about their experiences in the forest and after contact. Learn more ...

From the Omo Valley

A Mursi woman speaks out against the destruction of the tribe's crops. Her identity has been hidd...

Tribes from the air

Tribes from the air

Lodu's Message

Dongria call on mining company Vedanta to leave ahead of AGM

Message to Anil Agarwal

The Dongria tell mining company Vedanta's chairman to leave them in peace.

Channel 7's 'racist' infanticide report

Dangerous rubbish: visiting the Suruwaha is “literally time-travelling back 10,000 years”; “threa...

Message from the Awá

An urgent demand for help from earth's most threatened tribe. #StopBrazilsGenocide svlint.org/Br...

Quentin Blake

The artist and illustrator talks about his support for Survival. Get involved: https://svlint.o...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

Karapiru remembers the tragedy that befell his family. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

Karapiru hid from the outsiders. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://www.survivalinternatio...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

Karapiru approaches the outsiders. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://www.survivalinternat...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

A man of the forest. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://www.survivalinternational.org/arti...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

The sole survivor. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://www.survivalinternational.org/articl...

Karapiru Awá: In his own words

The reunion. Learn more about Karapiru's life: https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/kar...

"When they found him, he was dead."

Dilia's husband was murdered and tortured more than 22 years ago. His killers still evade justice...

Matsés tribe

Matsés woman Antonina Duni Goya Nesho talks about her son's future. Learn more: https://www.surv...

Time is running out for the Awá

An urgent message from the Awá tribe. #StopBrazilsGenocide svlint.org/BrazilGenocide

Lodu Sikaka

Dongria Kondh leader's refusal to allow the mining of Niyamgiri. © KBK SAMACHAR, 2013

Earth's most threatened tribe: the campaign triumphs!

Brazil's government bows to the global campaign and expels all illegal loggers. Learn more: http...

The Awá tribe

Film about Survival's successful campaign to protect the Awá's land made by the BBC.

Interview with Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire

Raoni talks about threats to uncontacted tribes in Brazil and the impacts of the controversial Be...

Tribal families evicted for "tiger conservation"

Moving first-hand accounts by the residents of Jholar village in Kanha tiger reserve, who have no...

A talk by Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa

A talk by Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa.

Bayaka and Baiga speak out about abuse in the name of "conservation"

Powerful video testimonies of Bayaka “Pygmies” in the Republic of Congo highlight their intimate ...

"Maybe we will die"

Kwegu Indigenous people in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley report in 2015 that they are starving as a...

Baka reports abuse by wildlife guard Mpaé Désiré and others

A Baka man, interviewed in 2015, reports abuse by Cameroonian wildlife guard Mpaé Désiré. Mpaé D...

Human rights abuse and trophy hunting in Cameroon

An elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by French billionaire Benjamin de Rothschild h...

Baka father speaks out against WWF-funded abuse

A Baka father talks about how an anti-poaching squad beat his young daughter, who was just 10 yea...

Baka person speaks out as girl dies in the name of conservation

The Baka are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands in the Cameroon and Congo. T...

Baka person speaks out against destructive loggers

Some of the world's largest logging groups are destroying the Baka's ancestral forests in the Con...

Uncontacted tribes

Join the global campaign for uncontacted tribes' rights, today: https://www.survivalinternational...

Bronx Zoo organization complicit in abuse of the Bayaka

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is one of the world's oldest conservation organiza...

Baka health plummets due to conservation

In the Congo Basin, the Baka, Bayaka and dozens of other rainforest peoples are being illegally e...

Indonesia's brutal attack on West Papuan rally

Shocking scenes of Indonesia's brutal suppression of a West Papuan rally on October 19 2011 ©SBS...

There You Go!

Created by Oren Ginzburg and narrated by David Mitchell.

The dark side of Brazil

Kayapó leader Megaron Txukaramae talks about the draft bills that threaten to weaken Indigenous p...

Baka suffer abuse in the name of conservation

In southeast Cameroon, Baka and their neighbors are being illegally forced from their ancestral h...

"We are humans too"

Guarani leader Eliseu Lopes describes his tribe's quest to return to their ancestral land.

Tribal Voice – Marcio Guarani

Tribal Voice is a project by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ righ...

Irahoa's Story

Soon after first contact, Irahoa Awá recounts his life on the run in the forest.

The Last of the Kawahiva

In the Brazilian Amazon, a tiny group of uncontacted people teeters on the brink of extinction. S...

Baka plead for an end to abuse in the name of conservation

In southeast Cameroon, Baka and their neighbors continue to be illegally evicted in the name of c...

Pire'i Awá – Success!

Pire'i Awá describes life for his people in the north-eastern Amazon rainforest, after Survival's...

NO to PEC 215!

Adalto Guarani asks people around the world to help stop plans which could destroy Indigenous peo...

Please join the movement today

Oscar-winning actor & Survival Ambassador Mark Rylance makes an urgent appeal for Survival Intern...

Launching: Tribal Voice

Your platform to speak to the world. Send in your video today! Learn more: https://www.survivalin...

Suzanne explains how Baka people are being excluded from the forests they rely on to survive

The Baka tribe of the Congo have experienced horrific human rights abuses at the hands of WWF-fun...

WTF WWF

The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) are complicit in land theft in Republic of Congo. Learn more:...

Paulette describes abuses against Baka people committed by park rangers backed by WWF

The Baka tribe of the Congo have experienced horrific human rights abuses at the hands of WWF-fun...

Who are the Sentinelese?

The Sentinelese are the most isolated tribe in the world, and have captured the imagination of mi...

Venezuelan military open fire on a group of Pemon Indians

The shooting took place on 22 February 2019, near the border with Brazil.

Deforestation around Xingu Indigenous Park

The Xingu Indigenous territory in Brazil is a barrier to deforestation.

Baka call on WWF to stop funding anti-poaching squads

In this film, recorded in November 2014, Baka from Ndongo, a village where WWF has a regional bas...

Olimpio says thank you to Survival International

Olimpio Guajajara says thank you to Survival International and its supporters for 50 years campai...

Uncontacted Matsés

The Matsés tribe are concerned about oil exploration in their territory. Learn more: https://www....

Zembla investigation into WWF abuse

A Dutch TV programme called Zembla conducted a new investigation into WWF's practices, revealing ...

Survival's former Director Stephen Corry speaks at our 50th birthday party

Stephen Corry, former Director of Survival International, makes a speech at Survival's 50th birth...

Mya-Rose Craig, AKA Birdgirl, speaks at our 50th birthday party

Mya-Rose Craig, AKA Birdgirl, makes a speech at Survival's 50th birthday celebration.

Survival Ambassador Mark Rylance speaks at our 50th birthday party

Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance, a Survival International Ambassador, makes a speech at Survival...

Robin Hanbury-Tenison speaks at our 50th birthday party

Robin Hanbury-Tenison, one of the founders of Survival International, makes a speech at Survival'...

"For the Orang Asli land development spells destruction"

The Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia have had much of their land stolen for deforestation, oil p...

"They want to kill us all"

In 2018, Brazil led the world in rainforest destruction. Tainaky Tenetehar is a Guardian of the A...

“Gunshots have been fired”

The Indigenous Guardians of Arariboia in the Brazilian Amazon are protecting their land and the u...

Baka people in Congo call out WWF for telling tales

WWF claim that the Baka "know that WWF is on their side". We asked some Baka people if they agree...

“If the jungle is taken away from us how will we survive?"

Kunni Bai, from the Baiga tribe in India, describes how the jungle provides them with all the med...

"President Bolsonaro is a threat to Indigenous people"

President Bolsonaro has “declared war” on the Indigenous people of Brazil. In this Tribal Voice v...

Factory Schools: crimes against children

Two million tribal and Indigenous children are in Factory Schools today. Lives are destroyed and ...

"Our hills are like our parents to us"

In this video from India, a Baiga man shares what the hills mean to him and his people. Indigenou...

“The Paraguayan government should be ashamed”

The Indigenous Ayoreo have been fighting for their uncontacted relatives and their land for 40 ye...

“They’re killing us with pen and paper”

President Bolsonaro has “declared war” on Brazil’s Indigenous peoples. Activist Celia Xakriabá sh...

Uncontacted Awá in the Amazon © Mídia Índia

Extraordinary new footage showing some of the most threatened uncontacted peoples in the world ha...

"Only we villagers know what’s happening"

Earlier this year, India's Supreme Court ordered the eviction of 8 million tribal and forest dwel...

“Which jungle has been made by the government?”

Budraham, a Baiga activist from India, opposes government plans to turn their forest into a tiger...

"We can't afford to wait much longer"

In the 1970s and 80s, American fundamentalist New Tribes Mission (NTM) helped organise ‘manhunts’...

"Our greatest enemy is the government"

President Jair Bolsonaro has ‘declared war’ on Brazil’s Indigenous peoples. But they are fighting...

Davi and the Yanomami

Amazonian shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa Yanomami on his tribe's life and land, shamanism and hi...

"Our land is our heritage"

Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, speaks about what the proposed mining bill would mean for his people.

"The illegal miners killed two Yanomami"

While most Yanomami have some sporadic contact with mainstream society, some are uncontacted. Ind...

Davi Yanomami on climate change

Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines fighting climate change. Listen to Yanomami leader and s...

Actress and Producer Q'orianka Kilcher appeals for people to support Survival

Actor and Producer Q’orianka Kilcher explains why Indigenous land rights are the key to protectin...

“Climate change isn’t a thing of the future"

The movement for the climate is gaining traction all over the world. In this #TribalVoice video, ...

"President Bolsonaro: stop your hate speech"

President Bolsonaro has “declared war” on the Indigenous people of Brazil. Adriano, from the Kari...

"Thank you for fighting alongside us”

Ernestina, an Indigenous leader of the Makuxi people from Brazil, has a message of gratitude for ...

“We are heavily targeted by agribusiness”

Discrimination, “development” projects, mining, deforestation... In this video, Jeremias, from th...

The Guardians of the Amazon

The Amazon Guardians are a group of brave, inspirational people putting their lives on the line t...

"We demand justice for our daughters"

Factory schools are destroying countless tribal lives the world over. In this video, a parent sha...

"They would drug our daughters"

Factory schools are destroying countless tribal lives the world over. In this video, a parent sha...

"Life is beautiful"

Barbara, an Indigenous Wayuu leader from La Guajira in Colombia, is receiving death threats. She ...

50 years fighting alongside tribal peoples

To mark our 50th anniversary, a tribute to our supporters. You ARE the global movement for tribal...

"Enough blood has been shed"

President Bolsonaro has “declared war” on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. In this video, young ...

"We're in this together"

Ma-i and Olimpio from the Guajajara people in Brazil express solidarity with their Indigenous bro...

Napo-Tigre uncontacted tribes

Uncontacted Indigenous people living in the Amazon border area between Ecuador and Peru are threa...

"We need more women in power"

Joênia Wapichana is Brazil's first Indigenous Congresswoman. In this video, she talks about what ...

"Our lives were good, really good!"

This Jenu Kuruba woman, was evicted from Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in india. She talks about life i...

"We are living miserable lives"

This Jenu Kuruba woman and her family were evicted in the name of conservation from their forest ...

Tribute to Paulo Paulino Guajajara

Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed by invaders in Arariboia Indigenous territory. He was one of t...

Missionaries target uncontacted tribes

President Bolsonaro has opened up the territories of uncontacted Amazon tribes to evangelical mis...

“We cannot let the colonizers get rid of us”

The uncontacted Ãwa Indigenous people of the "Papaya Forest" on Brazil's Bananal Island are surro...

“We cannot send our children away”

Dodhi Pusika, a leader of the Dongria Kondh tribe of Niyamgiri, India, on the Indigenous-controll...

“We are victims of the big conservation NGOs”

Birendra Mahato, from the Tharu tribe in Nepal, explains how Indigenous people are victims of Chi...

WCS: Kick racism out of conservation

What's the link between a notorious racist, the mass eviction of tribal people to turn their land...

“We’re bringing colors to the Indigenous movement”

One of the founders of Mídia India and a member of the Guajajara tribe, Erisvan Guajajara, discus...

"They live in trees": what Factory School founder thinks of Indigenous people

Warning - Offensive Content: This man runs the world's biggest #FactorySchool for Indigenous kids...

"Wildlife is our life"

Leela, a young Chenchu man from Amrabad tiger reserve in India, desperately wants his tribe prote...

"They want our children to hate their own culture"

Adivasi activist and teacher Soni Sori sets out her vision for Indigenous-controlled education an...

"We urge the Peruvian government to act fast"

The President of ORPIO (Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East) Jorge Perez Rubio in Peru...

"We need to be united to fight this disease"

Coronavirus has already killed hundreds of Indigenous people in Brazil and could decimate unconta...

“You must stop buying Blood Gold”

Dario Kopenawa Yanomami appeals to the people of India to stop buying gold mined from his people'...

“They forced us to sign documents and evicted people”

JK Thimma describes how Ullas Karanth (who worked for The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Ind...

“We are very worried for the lives of our uncontacted relatives”

Coronavirus is spreading fast through the Javari Valley, home to more uncontacted tribes than any...

Act Now: Amazon Fires

“Starting fires is an act of violence against nature and Indigenous peoples” Too right! Watch to...

“We must decolonize conservation”

Listen to Yannick Ndoinyo, a Maasai man from Tanzania, to understand why Protected Areas have had...

“We’ve had enough of this talk of ‘boundaries’ in the forest”

WWF and the European Commission say they are not aware of human rights violations in the creation...

"Do they want to kill us?"

Awá Indigenous people from the north-eastern Amazon raise the alarm that drones and helicopters –...

"Is this 'development'?"

Quechua activist Melania Canales slams large-scale "development" projects and extractive industri...

“We are against forceful and illegal evictions”

Pranab Doley, an activist from the Mising tribe, speaks out against planned evictions from Kazira...

A murder foretold

Paulo Paulino Guajajara, an Amazon Guardian, foresees his own death in this moving video filmed b...

Silence is Complicity

We asked Oscar-winner Mark Rylance to read from a UNDP report that details the human rights abuse...

Island of Green

The Amazon Guardians sacrifice their lives to protect the #Amazon & their uncontacted neighbors f...

Silence is Complicity

Warning: contains material some may find disturbing Actor Cristina do Rego reads from a report d...

Silence is Complicity

Warning: contains material some may find disturbing Actor Simone Black outlines just some of the...

“Think first of our blood that will be spilled on this land”

Pro-agribusiness politicians are pushing the "time frame" proposal which states that if Indigenou...

“There is violence, we all face attacks everywhere”

Listen to Eliseu Guarani’s plea for support as Brazil’s Supreme Court judges prepare to rule if t...

"They said that we should ask their permission to worship in our own forest"

Imagine being told you can’t worship in your own home. This is what happened to a group of Chenc...

"'We will kill you' - that’s what they say"

Amarlal, a young Baiga man, explains that his people have been harassed and threatened with evict...

In defense of the uncontacted Kawahiva

Jair Candor has worked for over 30 years to defend the lands of uncontacted tribes. Jair and his ...

"They have the nerve to call us poor"

The Guarani Kaiowá are among the Indigenous peoples worst hit by land theft – past and present – ...

“The conservationists came to abuse me at my house”

A Baka man from Lobeke National Park (Cameroon), speaking out against the abuses he faced at the ...

The Hall of Shame: conservation’s racist history

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), owner of the Bronx Zoo, has a dark history of abuse of t...

Before and after: deforestation in the Amazon

Just look how the Ituna Itata territory in #Brazil is being destroyed. Uncontacted tribes live he...

“We’re fighting for everyone”

Antonio Wilson Guajajara outlines the fight that Indigenous forest Guardians are taking on to pro...

"There are rampant evictions"

Pranab Doley, an activist and local politician from the Mising tribe, speaks out against illegal ...

We must #DecolonizeConservation​ now

Tribal peoples are being illegally evicted from their ancestral lands in the name of "conservatio...

Tribal peoples' lives are being destroyed in India

Tribal peoples across India are having their lives destroyed by conservation. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀...

"My people have always protected the forest"

"We consider ourselves to be among the best protectors of the lungs of the planet." Amazon Guardi...

Survival’s former Director Stephen Corry's message for Earth Day

"Can we put aside the terrible idea that humanity is a virus infecting the Earth? Biodiversity re...

Missionaries target uncontacted tribes

Disease isn't the only thing that #missionaries can spread in Indigenous territories. Now they'r...

Why uncontacted tribes face genocide

Survival's Sarah Shenker explains why #UncontactedTribes​ face genocide, despite protecting the m...

“Our resistance is strong”

Edilena Krikati, of the Krikati people, outlines the situation of the Indigenous lands of Maranhã...

How to make an eco-backpack

The Awá don’t need any lessons in sustainability: watch how they turn leaves into an eco-backpack...

"Our children are being taken away from our soils, lives and struggle"

Krushno Sikoka, a youth leader of the Dongria Kondh tribe of Odisha, India, explains why ‘mainstr...

Make a rainforest shelter!

The Baka are literally right at home in their rainforest – no surprise they're the best conservat...

“We’re back home and we won’t leave”

The Xokleng were one of the Indigenous peoples in southern Brazil who were violently forced off t...

An appeal from the rainforest

Survival's 1989 campaign to secure land rights for the Yanomami.

Hidme Markam: arrested for speaking out

The violent arrest of Hidme Markam, an Adivasi (Indigenous) and women's rights activist, from a W...

Guarani Kaiowá torture victim recounts brutal attack

In March 2021, Guarani Kaiowá men were brutally attacked by gunmen of the Querência ranch, midwes...

Myanmar: Abuses in a WCS-supported park

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) initiated & supported a national park in Myanmar where fo...

"Schools cannot exist without land rights"

Indigenous activist Célia Xakriabá talks about the importance of Indigenous-led education, beyond...

"Our uncontacted relatives are being persecuted"

Orojoi Etacore and Esoi Chiquenoi, recently-contacted men of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe in Pa...

The Big Green Lie - teaser trailer

Teaser for our new campaign video, launching on Earth Day (22 April). Do you care about this pla...

The Big Green Lie

If you support the plan to turn 30% of Earth into Protected Areas, you’re supporting the biggest ...

"A white person is no better or worse than me"

Tainaky Tenetehar, an Amazon Guardian, talks about racism, the Black Lives Matter movement and it...

“Lessons in how to hate yourself, your identity and your culture”

Adivasi writer and publisher, Ruby Hembrom, dissects the aims underlying Factory Schools and expl...

“Their lives depend on our lands being protected”

Porai Picanerai and Ducubaide Chiquenoi, two leaders of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe, speak out...

Uncontacted Tribes and Land Protection Orders - the hidden story

The Brazilian government is planning to open up the land of uncontacted tribes to deadly exploita...

“They filed false legal cases against six of us”

JK Thimma, a shaman from the Jenu Kuruba tribe in India, has fought for his people’s right to liv...

Uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode see their forest destroyed around them

The forests of the Paraguayan Chaco - home to the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode and their uncontacted rela...

Mayflowers Kill

400 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plimoth Patuxet, (settler) colonialism continues a...

"We’ll keep fighting until we get back what is ours"

Shanti is speaking at the Jenu Kuruba’s protest against evictions from Nagarhole National Park in...

Thank you! - Run for Survival 2021

From May 28-31, all over the world, hundreds of you took a step further for tribal peoples by joi...

”The Time Limit Trick is a gun held to our head”

Woie Kriri Patte, of the Xokleng people, explains why, if the Time Limit Trick is approved by the...

Do Kenya's parks protect "wild Africa"?

Mordecai Ogada debunks the myths surrounding national parks & Protected Areas. Yet big NGOs & wo...

"They came to destroy our grandparents' cemetery"

Indigenous people in Paraguay are being violently evicted from their lands. Guillermina Benítez, ...

Karapiru's story

Karapiru, who died recently of Covid, survived a massacre in which the rest of his family were ki...

“If they kill them, there won’t be anyone left”

A unique appeal from Rita Piripkura, the only person from Brazil’s Piripkura tribe in regular con...

"No to the Time Limit Trick, and Demarcation Now!"

More than 6,000 Indigenous people have been in Brasilia, urging the Supreme Court to throw out th...

"We're doing all we can to help our uncontacted relatives"

Danger’s closing in on the uncontacted Ãwa Indigenous people of the ‘Papaya Forest’ on Brazil’s B...

"Let’s fight against this false conservation!"

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

"I want our children to carry on our languages"

Trisha Moquino, an educator and cheerleader for her people from Cochiti, Ohkay Owhingeh, and Kewa...

"We are in control of identifying ourselves"

Trisha Moquino, an educator and cheerleader for her people from Cochiti, Ohkay Owhingeh, and Kewa...

“The police are targeting us for defending our land and forest rights"

The Dongria Kondh tribe won an historic victory in 2013, defending their sacred mountain, their w...

Exclusive: illegal road constructed inside uncontacted tribes' territory

This exclusive footage shows the devastation and destruction brought by an illegal road in #Indig...

"We protect 80% of the planet's biodiversity, yet we are the most vulnerable"

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

“We need to throw these conservationists out of our forests”

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

“There is a conflict between an aim that sounds wonderful and the reality that already exists”

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

"The main problem we, Indigenous peoples, see is that nature is being traded"

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

"There is another alternative to conservation"

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

"We must distinguish between real solutions and false solutions, such as carbon offsets"

In the run-up to the ground-breaking "Our land, our nature" congress, we asked leading experts an...

"There is no conservation without the intervention of Indigenous peoples"

In the run-up to the ground-breaking #OurLandOurNature congress, we asked leading experts and act...

“We don’t accept the Time Limit Trick”

The Awá have a very simple message for Brazil’s Supreme Court, direct from the Amazon: “No to the...

"We protect 80% of the planet's biodiversity, yet we are the most vulnerable"

Do you think turning 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas will help stop climate change? And nat...

“Our sacred place has been mined and destroyed"

Balsai has been fighting to save his beloved Hasdeo Forest from mining for years. One coal mine h...

"They are harassing us saying 'this land doesn’t belong to you anymore'"

Amarlal Baiga’s land has been stolen to make way for a tree planting project – part of an offsett...

"Brazil was born of the rape of Indigenous women"

Violence against women is everyone's concern. Nyg Kaingang, from the Kaingang people in Brazil, e...

“There are ways of killing us... and ways of not letting us live”

Since 1500 the Indigenous peoples of Brazil have been resisting genocide. It's still going on – i...

“What would we get from mining? Nothing at all”

We asked Indigenous peoples from across the world what they thought about mining on Indigenous la...

When the miners came

Indigenous territories are being mined and destroyed without Indigenous consent. This is both an ...

Yes or No, WWF?

WWF have been accused of deceit, cover-ups and dishonesty in a US Congressional Committee hearing...

Conservation: US Congress hearing

WWF came under sustained attack during the congressional hearing to investigate human rights abus...

“They’re invading our home, with all these false promises”

Straight from COP26, Alessandra Munduruku stresses that without Indigenous peoples, there’ll neve...

"I don't want another massacre"

Dario Yanomami from the Hutukara Yanomami Association reports that some uncontacted Yanomami rela...

“We can save the Earth... but they just want us dead”

Massive coal mining is destroying the lands and lives of Adivasi people in India, and is set to i...

"They shouted 'shoot, shoot, shoot' and shot me"

Basava from the Jenu Kuruba tribe in #India has been shot by forest guards. He’s alive and speaki...

"Nearly everyone from the Wajãpi tribe died"

RIP Kaspirina Wajãpi, who died of Covid at the beginning of this year. We recorded this moving i...

“We can live with elephants but not with mining”

Ummeshwar Singh, a village headman, has been protesting along with his village to save their sacr...

#DearHumanity

#DearHumanity, We have a problem: The most polluting companies & governments are promoting a dang...

#TierraAyoreo

Urgent! The Chaco forest in #Paraguay, home to uncontacted Ayoreo, is being cut down faster than ...

Q&A of “Nyama” – Film Screening

We had the opportunity to screen the beautifully made short-film Nyama and answer a lot of questi...

"Every inch of our lands is being placed into the hands of the Corporates”

Munda Adivasi (Indigenous) leader, Dayamani Barla, has spent decades defending the rights and lan...

"My home is not yours to destroy"

Do you need teaching resources for younger learners on the Amazon Rainforest and the 1 million tr...

The Falling Sky

Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa talks about his book The Falling Sky (2010)

Shocking violence against the Maasai

Shocking violence happening now in Loliondo, Tanzania - military firing on Maasai, who are being ...

Busted: 5 myths about uncontacted tribes

Natalia Tena, star of Harry Potter & Game of Thrones, busts the 5 most common myths about unconta...

“The 30% [plan] is a dispossession of land and a land grab”

The plan to turn 30% of the Earth into Protected Areas is the biggest land grab in history, a dis...

"I am here in resistance"

On June 5 2022, Bruno Pereira & Dom Phillips were killed. Before he died Bruno left us this mess...

“He is the sixth Guardian killed”

Olimpio Guajajara, #Indigenous leader and Amazon Guardian, responds to the killing of fellow Guar...

Rainforest or no rainforest?

Amazon Guardian Taniaky Tenetehar shows us the glaring contrast between the forests of the Ararib...

#Kemanusiaan yang terhormat

#Kemanusiaan yang terhormat, Kita punya masalah: Perusahaan-perusahaan penyebab polusi dan para ...

"We have to face those monsters"

In Brazil, the Munduruku, Yanomami and Kayapó are among the Indigenous peoples most affected by i...

Anoushka Shankar joins the battle to save Indigenous forest

Anoushka Shankar is standing with the #Indigenous people of #India. They’re fighting devastating ...

“Our world gets snatched away”

Surender Oraon, an Oraon Adivasi [Indigenous] leader from Jharkhand, central India, speaks about ...

"The people are being made to live in hell"

Surender Oraon, an Oraon Adivasi [Indigenous] leader, speaks in front of the Magadh mine, which h...

"We're trying to reclaim our land"

Smith Moeti, an #Indigenous Bushman from #Botswana, speaks in front of the Court of Appeal about ...

#SullaPelleDegliAyoreo

Survival has filed a formal OECD complaint against Italian company Pasubio, which supplies leathe...

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There are many different ways of living on this planet, who's to say their way is best?