Two companies planning to explore for oil in rainforest inhabited by uncontacted tribes have revealed plans to ‘communicate’ with them using megaphones if their oil crews are attacked.
Signs of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin have been spotted by other members of their tribe in Paraguay.
Twenty-two years of intensive debate and negotiations climax this week in New York, as the UN General Assembly votes on whether to approve the declaration on Indigenous peoples’ rights.
Twenty-one Botswana Bushmen arrested in June and July for hunting to feed their families were celebrating today after all charges against them were dropped.
Six Gana and Gwi Bushmen have been arrested by Botswana police for hunting on their ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. This follows twenty-one arrests for hunting in June and July.
Plans for the construction of a highway in one of the most remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon have been rejected by a local Indigenous organization because of the danger it poses to uncontacted tribes living there.
The top human rights body in Latin America, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), has demanded to know what the Peruvian government is doing to protect uncontacted tribes living in the remote Amazon.
Screen icon Julie Christie and Survival will launch a campaign tomorrow to save uncontacted tribes from extinction with a new film featuring previously unseen footage of some of the world?s most remote and endangered peoples.