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A small group of Borneo hunter-gatherers have scored a major victory over a giant oil palm firm that was targeting their rainforest.
Survival International revealed last month that the Malaysian firm Shin Yang was clearing forest and planting oil palm in an area where members of the Penan tribe were due to be resettled, to make way for the Murum dam. [Read more…] about Victory for Borneo tribe over oil palm Goliath
The UN’s flagship business initiative is being used as a tool to mask human rights abuses, according to Ayoreo Indians in Paraguay.
Leaders of the tribe, some of whose members are still uncontacted, have written to the UN Global Compact saying they are ‘concerned and frustrated’ by the inclusion in it of a controversial Brazilian ranching company. [Read more…] about UN fails uncontacted Indians
An outbreak of respiratory disease has struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes – whose numbers have already been decimated by flu and malaria.
Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, have been admitted to San José del Guaviare hospital in the southern Colombian Amazon. [Read more…] about Epidemic strikes Amazon nomads
The head of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, leads from the front in daring Arctic action
Brazilian beef barons whose illegal clearance of land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Paraguay was spotted by satellites have now been charged with illegal deforestation.
The charges come after Survival International released satellite images showing 4000 hectares of illegal deforestation on land owned by the ranching companies BBC S.A and River Plate. [Read more…] about Brazilian Beef barons face jail