Everything that we do, our fight, is for our territory — Kora Kanamari is a Kanamari leader from the Javari Valley, western Brazil. He’s a member of the Forest Warriors, which was recently set up by the peoples of the Javari Valley to protect their land and resources in the face of increasing invasions by poaching gangs and loggers. …

Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right, nationalist politician, took office as President of Brazil on 1 January, 2019. A former army captain, he has made many racist and offensive remarks about Indigenous peoples in Brazil, over a long period of time. This is a selection. Racist remarks “The Indians are evolving, more and more they are human beings like us.” — UOL Notícias “The Indians don’t speak our language, they don’t have money, they don’t have culture. They are Native peoples. How did they manage to get 13% of the national territory?” — UOL Notícias

Tribal societies are extraordinarily diverse and there’s a lot to learn from them. Here are 50 facts from Indigenous and tribal societies across the globe… — Tribal societies put the community before the individual, sharing and exchanging possessions rather than amassing personal wealth. Money isn’t the key to happiness. A group of Maasai people from East Africa were found to have a similar life satisfaction rating to those on the Forbes 400 richest Americans list.

We have a problem. Governments, conservation organizations and the most polluting companies, predominantly from the global north, are promoting a dangerous plan. They say it will help solve both the climate and biodiversity crises, but it won’t. During an unnoticed high-level meeting taking place in Geneva in a few days…

By Birendra Mahato, Chair of the Tharu Cultural Museum and Research Center and Community Conservation Nepal. Chitwan National Park in the Southern lowlands of Nepal is famous for its one-horned rhinoceros and other wildlife living in its tropical grasslands and forests. Adjoining India, this landscape was once famous as the…

Pranab Doley, an Indigenous activist from the Mising people, condemns the militarization of the conservation industry in India and beyond, and its threat to the land’s best protectors. I come from Kaziranga, a lush area of Assam, India which sits across four major rivers, including the Brahmaputra which flows through…

“Follow me. I want to show you something,” Rita Piripkura beckoned as we sat by a stream on the edge of the Piripkura indigenous territory in the western Brazilian Amazon. We set off: Rita, her husband Aripan, four land protection agents from the Brazilian government’s indigenous affairs department, and me. …

By Samantha Maltais (Aquinnah Wampanoag) In many ways, holidays represent the values we hold as a collective society. Similar to statues and the histories we choose to enshrine, these celebrations symbolize the weight we attach to events, people, and ideas. Today, communities within the United States choose what history they…

By Marial Quezada (Survival International, US) & Sara Mediavilla (Survival International, España) The conquista has not ended, not even 200 years ago, when we became independent (from Spain). On the contrary, we are still located and practiced in the conquista…in coloniality. It is not the past, it is the present…