Tingginambut & Puncak Jaya situation dire. Latest news from the ground is that numbers of Papuans are dying of hunger after the month-long Indonesian military operation in the area. The presence of large numbers of TNI and POLRI throughout Puncak Jaya has prevented Papuans from tending their gardens to feed themselves. Villages destroyed, pigs killed…
WWF last week founded a Council to certifiy fish and seafood farms. “We see the ASC as yet another attempt by a Big International NGO to formulate some ill-conceived plan to remedy the problems of unsustainable industrial shrimp farming,” said the Forest Peoples Programme in a statement. “These kinds of remedies do not involve the…
Hollywood big shots got a taste of reality as their plans for building a Hollywood-style studio in the northern part of South Africa were blocked by the local Khoi-San community, tribes commonly known in the West as Bushmen. The local population is preserving their culture, with some families practicing the traditional hunting and gathering lifestyle,…
The Awá are one of the last nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil. About 60 Awá have no contact with outsiders. Although most live in legally recognized reserves, the Awá are hemmed into ever smaller spaces as loggers, settlers and cattle ranchers invade their land and cut down their forest.
The president of Botswana has told the Bushmen that their way of life (which has been successful for hundreds of times longer than our civilization) is an “archaic fantasy”.
Two recent reports from Survival show how badly communications are needed by remote tribal people. Even the remotest, as yet ‘uncontacted’ tribes are facing annihilation as their forests are being destroyed. November reports from Brasil and Paraguay both tell of uncontacted people fleeing from forest destruction. It is their very remoteness that facilitates the illegal…
As if poor farmers and hunter-gatherer tribes didn’t have enough land problems already! Now rich corporations are buying huge swathes of land in Africa and elsewhere. This week, the South Korean firm Daewoo Logistics announced plans to buy a 99-year lease on a million hectares in Madagascar. This trend cannot avoid the consequence of increased…
Until recently, tribal people in remote areas were largely unaffected by the depredations of agribusiness. This is changing and Seed Savers organization could be a good way for people to keep up with the latest developments and work with others to protect themselves. The following article has some background on the problems and some good…
This is from the Association for Progressive Communications, which we will join as soon as we have charitable status! Some areas that would benefit from our services are more difficult to fundraise for if they already have mobile phone coverage. The following goes some way to countering that trend. Mobile phone towers dominate the landscape…
One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under “freedom” and “democracy,” would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. But first, it is important to set the context. Most people have never heard of the infamous “100 Orders,” but they help explain…