Reports that a US national has been arrested after landing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to make contact with the uncontacted Sentinelese people are “deeply disturbing”, Survival International’s Director Caroline Pearce said today. [Read more…] about Attempted contact with the Sentinelese tribe
India
Tribespeople evicted from Jungle Book tiger reserve
Tribal people have been forcibly and illegally evicted from India’s Kanha Tiger Reserve – home of Kipling’s The Jungle Book – in the name of tiger conservation. Across India, many more face a similar threat. [Read more…] about Tribespeople evicted from Jungle Book tiger reserve
Tiger Reserve tribe faces eviction
Tribespeople living inside a tiger reserve in India are being “threatened” and “cheated” into leaving their ancestral land in the name of tiger “conservation” – even though there is no evidence that they harm the wildlife, and they desperately want to stay on their land. [Read more…] about Tiger Reserve tribe faces eviction