Peruvian Indigenous organizations are calling out “an extermination campaign” that would destroy the lands and lives of uncontacted people in Peru. It’s potential gen****e.
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In July, the World Heritage Committee meets. This is a critical moment to apply pressure: no place should carry the title “World Heritage” while its original inhabitants are being evicted and abused.
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Two commissions set up by the Tanzanian president just gave the green light for evictions to continue and expand. UNESCO’s reports and the ‘World Heritage’ status are cited to justify the evictions. And UNESCO remains silent.
"UNESCO's support is being used to evict us"* *Anonymous Maasai leader. The Maasai have complained to UNESCO for years
The World Heritage Committee meets in July. Now is the time to influence its members! Will you act today? svlint.org/MaasaiAct
The Tanzanian authorities have carried out arbitrary arrests, beaten and tortured residents, and suspended health services to force families out.
UNESCO’s dirty secret: World Heritage for tourists – a nightmare for the Maasai. Act Now
Today UNESCO celebrates ‘World Heritage Day’ to raise awareness about the diversity of cultural heritage, monuments and landscapes. - Map of all World Heritage Sites worldwide. - But for the Maasai, there is nothing to celebrate.
Thousands of Maasai live in one of these ‘World Heritage Sites’: The Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Their land was turned into a conservation area back in 1959 and it got awarded with UNESCO’s World Heritage status in 1979. But Maasai families have lived there since time immemorial.
Now Tanzanian authorities are determined to evict the Maasai from their lands – in the name of conservation. Arbitrary arrests, violence, torture and suspended health services are their reality. But do you know who has protected these lands for generations? The Maasai.
Today is #WorldHeritageDay.
But for the Maasai, there is nothing to celebrate. Act now! svlint.org/MaasaiB
One of the world’s most famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites –the Ngorongoro Conservation Area– is being used to justify the eviction of the very people who've protected it for generations.
Survival condemns these latest attacks on civilians in West Papua. Those responsible for the killings must be brought to justice. We also demand an end to the culture of impunity that the Indonesian Security Forces have enjoyed in West Papua for so long.
Witness Yumbunik Murib told local media TabloidJubi: “Suddenly the Indonesian military attacked. They killed people with no regards for their humanity and they entered and attacked the refugee camps.”
The Indonesian military are still there. The community is asking for the victims to be evacuated.
Image: of a child who was wounded. Black box over their eyes to obscure identity. Text: West Papua. Indonesian Military attacks Indigenous West Papuans. Children shot, one killed.
NEWS: Nine more Indigenous West Papuan people are reported to have been shot dead by the Indonesian military, including a 5 year old and a pregnant mother. Dozens more have been injured.
On April 14, the military attacked Papuans living in refugee camps, who had fled previous military operations.
How Humans Work interviews Survival about Asia’s Indigenous peoples.
Listen now to the full episode. svlint.org/HowHumansWork
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Most uncontacted peoples live in South America, but Survival is also working to protect the lands of uncontacted peoples in Asia, like the Hongana Manyawa and the Shompen.
Check it out now ➡️ svlint.org/HowHumansWork
'26 April 2026: 26.2 miles, 1 vital cause, and probably several moments when I ask myself "why did I sign up for this?"
In just under 2 weeks, Meg will be running the London Marathon for Survival! They're giving their all for this marathon. Will you support them? svlint.org/MegsRun
Image of Adriano Karipuna wearing a feather headdress and speaking into a microphone. "They must demarcate all the Indigenous territories. And they must protect uncontacted peoples too." - Adriano Karipuna, Karipuna people, Brazil
Indigenous activist Adriano Karipuna took to the stage at the Free Land Camp in Brasilia this week. He called for full demarcation of all Indigenous territories, including those of uncontacted peoples who depend completely on their forests for their survival 💪
#DemarcaçãoJá #ATL2026
Survival’s joined the Free Land Camp, bringing attention to the fight for Indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples, alongside COIAB, UNIVAJA, Hutukara, and other Indigenous organizations fighting for their rights. 💪
"They don’t recognize that we’ve always been here, taking care of this territory. But we resist! Our future isn’t for sale, we are the answer!”
The Brazilian Indigenous organization APIB, which organizes the Free Land Camp, says “Congress is trying everything it can to change the constitution. It’s trying to destroy any barrier that stands between them and the targets of their furious greed."
In Solidarity Indigenous Free Land Camp in Brazil: thousands of Indigenous people protest in Brasilia
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An Indigenous woman wearing traditional face paint holding a sign in Portuguese that says Indigenous peoples are the defenders of water.
A crowd of young Indigenous men. Some are holding crosses with skulls on them, another is wearing a blue headdress.
In the capital of Brazil right now, thousands of Indigenous people from across the country have come together for the yearly Free Land Camp ✊🏹
This year they’re working to strengthen unity across Indigenous peoples, especially in the fight against big corporations.
Indigenous peoples from across Brazil have come together for the annual Free Land Camp.
They’re calling on big corporations to stop destroying their lands. Without their lands, Indigenous peoples have no future. For uncontacted peoples, without their lands protected, there can be no survival.
His visit coincides with the paperback launch of Dom's book, How to Save the Amazon.
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On Monday 20th April, Indigenous leader Beto Marubo will be in London with Dom's widow Alessandra Sampaio, Brazil Matters and Survival in a powerful discussion on how to stand up in defence of the Amazon and uncontacted peoples, following the deaths of Dom and Bruno.
Book cover. A journalist's fatal quest for answers. 'How to save the Amazon' - Dom Phillips. Brazil Matters and Survival logos.
Black and white image of Beto Marubo looking away from the camera, wearing a necklace and body paint.
Four years ago, UK journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian expert in Indigenous affairs Bruno Pereira went to the Javari region to find out how best to defend the Amazon. They were shot dead in a killing that had reverberations around the world.
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The second bill would open up a huge area in the Peruvian Amazon for gas projects, right where a many uncontacted peoples live.
These bills will be devastating for uncontacted peoples in the country.
Act now! This could be debated in Congress ANY MOMENT: svlint.org/ECPeruB
You won’t be surprised to know it’s far-right politicians linked to big oil, gas and mining corporations who are pushing these bills...
The Peruvian Congress might vote on these bills at any moment before the upcoming Presidential elections in April.
You can help STOP the Extermination Campaign. Take action now! svlint.org/ECPeru
The bills are being pushed by far-right politicians allied with powerful oil, gas and mining corporations.
The first bill would open up ALL Peru’s protected areas to mining and oil and gas extraction. Many of these are home to uncontacted Indigenous peoples.
EMERGENCY: New 'Extermination Campaign' by the far-right in Peru is threatening the lives of uncontacted Indigenous peoples
Two bills now being debated in Peru’s Congress would sound a death knell for the country’s uncontacted Indigenous peoples if passed.
Bill 1: - to open up ALL Peru's protected areas to mining and oil and gas extraction. Many of these are the territories of uncontacted peoples, who could be annihilated because of the destruction of their home.
Bill 2: - to open up for gas projects a vast area in Peru’s Amazon, home to many uncontacted peoples. Peru’s Indigenous organizations have branded these bills “an extermination campaign.”
‼️ EMERGENCY!! Peru’s Congress is debating two bills that, if passed, would bring death and destruction for uncontacted Indigenous peoples. ‼️
Peruvian Indigenous organizations are calling it “an extermination campaign.” It’s that bad. 🚫
Why we need to radically change conservation
We tend to think of alternatives only in contrast to an existing system. But the alternative to the existing nature conservation is not "no nature conservation." Of course we all want to protect nature! Survival fights to decolonize nature conservation.
But we need to radically rethink nature conservation, and the conservation industry needs to own up to the racist history and colonial ideology from which it emerged. This is what we mean by "decolonization." This also includes rethinking our responsibility for the expulsion of entire peoples.
For every nature conservation project, the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of the Indigenous or local population must be obtained. If this doesn't happen, you're not allowed to work there.
It's time to #DecolonizeConservation.
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And though Mainguejai dreams of one day meeting his relatives, above all he wants them to be safe — to live freely, and without fear.
Will you stand with him?
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Now 24, he lives in the community of Chaidi, watching as bulldozers carve through his people’s ancestral land. His family — his uncles and nephews — are still in the forest. Every day, he fears the sound of destruction getting closer.
"Many more are still in the forest. My family. My uncles and my nephews, all of them. I worry a lot ... because of the bulldozers." Gilberto Mainguejai Etacore Ayoreo people
Gilberto Mainguejai Etacore in a green sports tshirt and smiling at the camera.
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“Many more are still in the forest. My family. My uncles and my nephews, all of them.”
Mainguejai was born in the Chaco forest, one of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people of Paraguay. He was only 3 years old when his group was forced from the forest.
“President Lula, the Yanomami’s health situation remains very serious” Open letter from Indigenous organizations to Brazil’s president as published in Sumaúma
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“Since early January of this year, an outbreak of pertussis [whooping cough] has been sweeping through the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, as widely reported in the Brazilian press.”
“However, it was not until mid-March that the outbreak was reported in an official publication of the Yanomami and Ye’kuana Indigenous Health District, which is part of the Ministry of Health’s Office of Indigenous Health.”
Read the full letter, signed by Davi Kopenawa, other Yanomami activists and their allies: svlint.org/OpenLetter
The Brazil gov has declared a humanitarian crisis in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in January 2023. But 3 years on, the emergency continues.
Read the full letter Davi Kopenawa, other Indigenous people and specialists have written to President Lula, as published by Sumaúma: svlint.org/OpenLetter
We also demand an end to the culture of impunity that the Indonesian police have enjoyed in occupied West Papua for too long.
Survival condemns this extreme attack on innocent civilian lives. We call for an independent investigation into this incident, and that those responsible for the killing of West Papuan people, including a child, are brought to justice.
Meanwhile, Maikel Waine, 12, and Kikibi Pigai, 20, are in a critical condition.
The indiscriminate attacks occurred after a policeman was found dead on March 31. His killer is unknown.
Six people who were killed in the shootings have been named as Siprianus Tibakoto, 25; Yulita Pigai, 80; Martinus Yobe, 14; Ankian Edowai, 19; Feri Auwe, 20; and Yafet Timbakoto, age unknown.
