Tribal peoples’ rights organization Survival International has appealed to Avatar director James Cameron on behalf of an Indian tribe through an advert in the film industry magazine Variety (published today 9 February 2010).
In a shock move, the Church of England decided to disinvest from controversial miner Vedanta Resources on ethical grounds, dealing a devastating blow to the company’s credibility.
New research by scientists has found that a vast region of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon is the most biodiverse in South America.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of ‘Bo’, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human
The Brazilian government has granted an environmental license for the construction of the controversial Belo Monte hydro-electric dam in the Amazon.
Survival supporters demonstrated today outside Tiffany stores to protest.
A previously unknown Indian tribe has been spotted in the south-western Amazon.
Demonstrators have protested in Kenya against a controversial dam that threatens the survival of a hundred thousand Indigenous people.