Who’s speaking up for Earth’s most threatened tribe? Get creative to save the Awá yourself using our Awáicon. Photographer Sebastião Salgado Picture © Survival http://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/celebrities-awa#1 Continue reading Celebrities supporting the Awá
Gakelebone had to travel 5,000 miles to meet the Bushmen’s lawyer Gordon Bennett, who has been banned from Botswana. Jumanda Gakelebone, a Bushman from Botswana, sent a letter from the Bushman organization First People of the Kalahari to Prince Charles today, telling him that the Bushmen are not poachers, they hunt to survive. © Survival International A Bushman from the Central Kalahari travelled 5,000 miles from his home in Botswana today to tell the Prince of Wales, ‘We’re not poachers – we hunt to survive.’ In February Botswana’s President Khama was an honoured guest at a global anti-poaching conference in … Continue reading Bushman travels 5,000 miles to tell Prince Charles ‘We’re not poachers’
Picture © Icelight/Wikicommons By Joanna Eede. They live no more than 100 kms from Machu Picchu. Today, however, the future of uncontacted tribes who live in the heartland of the ancient Inca Empire is threatened by gas and oil extraction. It is as the early morning light floods through the walls of Intipunku, the Gate of the Sun, that most walkers gain their first sight of Machu Picchu. Every year, nearly 1 million tourists visit the Inca citadel. Perched high on a ridge in the eastern Andes overlooking the Urubamba valley, also known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas, … Continue reading Peru’s uncontacted tribes threatened by gas project
Picture © Claudia Andujar/Survival For the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, the spirit world is a fundamental part of life. Every creature, rock, tree and mountain has a spirit. The word, ‘shaman’, is thought to have originated with the Evenk people of Siberia, but shamans have a pivotal role in many tribal societies. Typically, they are men and women who specialise in communicating with the natural world and its spirits; people who have a heightened awareness of the divine and the intangible. Shamans have many roles. They are variously healers and priests, custodians of their peoples’ sacred rituals, weather diviners, … Continue reading ‘We learn with the great spirits’
Picture © Cat Vinton Everything happens at sea. We are not people who are bound to any land.’The extraordinary lives of the Moken, or Sea Gypsies, of south-east Asia. The Moken are a semi-nomadic Austronesian people, who live in the Mergui Archipelago, a group of approximately 800 islands in the Andaman Sea that is claimed both by Burma and Thailand. Thought to have migrated to Thailand, Burma and Malaysia from Southern China approximately 4,000 years ago, the Moken have traditionally lived on hand-built wooden boats called kabang for most of the year, migrating in flotillas between islands according to factors … Continue reading ‘The ocean is our universe’
Survival International continues its high-profile campaign for the Awá, by collaborating with world-famous Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. Shafts of evening sunlight illuminate the dense Amazon rainforest of northeast Brazil. A place of extraordinary beauty and biodiversity, the Amazon is home to the puma, jaguar and anaconda. And it is also the homeland of the Awá, one of the last nomadic tribes in Brazil. Survival International has campaigned for Awá’s rights for decades. This unique gallery is the result of a collaboration between Survival and world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado, who recently visited the tribe to document their world, and the threats … Continue reading The Awá: Sebastião Salgado’s gallery
Brazil: it conjures Carnival, Copacabana and the FIFA World Cup. But scratch the surface and you’ll find a darker side, because what’s missing from the popular image of Brazil is the shocking treatment of its first peoples. Its football stadiums are built on Indian land, and its new-found wealth comes from the dispossession of the Indians and the theft of their lands. Now Brazil is planning a new assault on its first peoples: targeting the lands they have managed to keep. Ghosts of the World Cup When the first Europeans arrived in Brazil in 1500 it was home to over … Continue reading The Dark Side of Brazil
. Black dogs in shelters are euthanized at a much higher rate because they’re less likely to be adopted due to their color By Annabel Fenwick Elliott A Massachusetts-based photographer is attempting to challenge an odd but somewhat prevalent bias – black dog syndrome, which for various seemingly vague reasons makes it much harder for animal shelters to re-home black dogs. Fred Levy, 44, has launched a series of stunning photos starring a range of charcoal hued canines for his campaign, the Black Dogs Project, in hopes of changing people’s ill-founded perceptions. ‘I want to bring awareness to this issue … Continue reading ‘Black dogs have great personalities too’: Stunning photo series aims to fight aversion to inky-colored canines
By Sarah Gordon They are two cities that always seem to be in competition – especially when it comes to which is the most popular with tourists. Now one company has compared the highlights of London and Paris to see which capital city comes out on top. And while London seemingly boasts more visitors, the French capital certainly beats us on cuisine – with 81 Michelin-star restaurants and just 53 branches of MacDonald’s, compared to 61 Michelin-star restaurants in London and 321 branches of the fast-food outlet… But footballers will be much happier in London, with 131 clubs to choose … Continue reading London vs Paris: The infographic that puts the two capitals head-to-head in their battle for supremacy
Civilisation as we know it could collapse in 15 years, something which is reflected in the viewing habits of today’s kids. by Laurie Penny Fifteen years. According to a Guardian report, “civilisation” as we know it could collapse in 15 years. In a Nasa-funded paper, accepted for publication in the journal Ecological Economics, resource depletion, climate change, escalating inequality and the unstoppable greed of the elite are all cited as reasons to imagine why democracy as we know it is time-limited. The study was initially reported uncritically; Nasa has since attempted to distance itself from the paper. Yet the countless … Continue reading Laurie Penny: No wonder teens love stories about dystopias – they feel like they’re in one
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