Brazil grants license for controversial Amazon mega-dam
The Brazilian government has granted an environmental license for the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.
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Protestors gather at Tiffany stores worldwide
Survival supporters demonstrated today outside Tiffany stores to protest.
Tribe sights uncontacted Amazon Indians
A previously unknown Indian tribe has been spotted in the south-western Amazon.
Demonstrations in Kenya against Ethiopian dam
Demonstrators have protested in Kenya against a controversial dam that threatens the survival of a hundred thousand Indigenous people.
Tiffany's target of global Survival protest
Survival supporters will tomorrow demonstrate outside Tiffany stores in five countries to protest at the company funding water boreholes for game animals on Bushman land where the people are forbidden access to their own borehole.
Penan feature in Eden Project oil palm exhibit
A new exhibit at the world famous UK visitor attraction the Eden Project features the Penan of Sarawak and the destruction of their forests to make way for oil palm plantations.
Imminent: Anglican Church decision on Vedanta Resources' abuses
The Church of England is meeting this week to decide what to do with its £2.5 million investment in UK mining company Vedanta Resources.
HIV reaches Yanomami in Amazon
Brazil’s National Health Foundation, FUNASA, has confirmed the first case of HIV amongst the Yanomami Indians in northern Brazil.