Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease. © Channel 7 An Australian TV report which branded an Amazon tribe as child murderers; a ‘suicide cult’ from the ‘Stone…
Kalahari Bushmen are celebrating the first water flowing from their well for nine years. The government closed it in an attempt to force the Bushmen from their lands, but a successful legal battle funded by Survival supporters has allowed a drilling team to enter the reserve. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7662?utm
The articles posted (or linked to from) here seem diverse and unrelated, but they are all illustrative of a set of circumstances which must be considered in any plan for a ‘solution’. In an article entitled “It’s no wonder so many firms end up on the scrapheap” we can see a connection between some of…
A new short film by Survival International, what follows first contact for Amazon tribes? http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/stranger Also New photos obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indians in never-seen-before detail. The pictures, taken by Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department, reveal a thriving, healthy community with baskets full of manioc and papaya fresh from their gardens. http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilphotos
Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a new report by the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC). The report says the logging ‘provides evidence that Peru is failing to uphold the environmental and forestry obligations of its 2009 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US’ because…
This is old, and thus not really news, but it does illustrate (caricature?) the attitude of a lot of westerners toward Africa and the South. I don’t know who this is, she’s some kind of celebrity. She was asked ‘Why can’t the majority of Americans find Iraq on a map?”. The radio host discussing the…
The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions, writes Christopher Booker in The Telegraph. For some background which will help this article make sense, see World Wide Fraud. And then do your own research, look into the backgrounds of the people involved, and…
A leaked draft EU document shows that the Commission would like to rename palm oil plantations as “forest” in order that biodiesel from palm oil plantations can still meet EU biofuels sustainability criteria. Palm oil expansion is a major cause of tropical rainforest destruction and biodiesel from palm oil can easily cause more greenhouse gas…
ECOTERRA Intl.—one of the co-founders of the original campaign—warned that the indiscriminate counting of even GM-trees planted by industries into the statistics of the now UNEP-led initiative gives a false picture and bears grave dangers. “A serious indigenous tree planting campaign carried out by honest people has been hi-jacked for the PR purposes of the…
Message sent out by Survival International to their subscribers: As we enter the new decade, we’d like to thank you for your support for tribal peoples over the last ten years. Here are just a few of the highlights: Land of Awá nomads protected Following a 20 year Survival campaign, the Brazilian authorities mapped out…