A version of this article was published by Time on November 30, 2018 Uncontacted tribes face catastrophe unless their land is protected. Security and autonomy can only come from the recognition and proper protection of their land ownership rights. As the sun set on the evening of the 15th November…

For every language that goes extinct, we lose a vital piece of the human puzzle. Languages are one of the greatest emblems of human diversity, revealing just how astonishingly differently it’s possible for human beings to perceive, relate to, and make sense of the world. They are also the finest…

I am here, in resistance, being attacked, but I will not give up — June 16, 2022: Bruno Pereira, a renowned Indigenous rights defender, and Dom Phillips, an experienced British journalist, went missing on Sunday 5 June 2022 near the Javari Indigenous Territory in western Brazil. Their deaths have now been confirmed by Brazilian police, though they have not yet formally identified the bodies. …

Dear Western donors of conservation in Kenya: We, the Sengwer, Indigenous people from Embobut forest, are writing to you from our ancestral land. This is our forest, our livelihood, our medicine, the land where our ancestors are buried and that we have been protecting for generations. This forest wouldn’t exist…

The plan to turn 30% of the earth into Protected Areas is based on a deeply unscientific and racist logic. On my first field trip as a researcher for Survival International, the global movement for Indigenous peoples, I met a man called Bharat. A member of the Baiga tribe in Central India, he had been evicted from his home and separated from the forest he loved, the tigers he held…

We at Survival want to make people stop and think about why we use the words we do when writing or talking about environmental issues — By Survival Campaigner Fiore Longo and Research and Advocacy Officer Lola Ramón The mainstream conservation model today is the same as it’s been since colonial times: ‘Fortress Conservation’ — the creation of militarised Protected Areas accessible mainly to the wealthy on the lands of indigenous peoples. …

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.