The Guajajara Guardians are a group of Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon, who protect their territory from invasions. The Guajajara people share their forest with the uncontacted Awá, who could be wiped out by any contact with the outsiders. Support the Guardians: svlint.org/GuardiansB

This is just one story of countless cases of forced contact. They need outside support or half of the world's uncontacted Indigenous groups and peoples will wiped out within the next 10 years. Take action now to ensure no more uncontacted peoples die: svlint.org/SurvivalB

Will you be our next Treasurer? We at Survival don't accept government funding. Our treasurer would help steward our independence, which gives Survival the freedom and credibility to challenge governments and corporations alike. Learn more about this position here: svlint.org/job

Pranab Doley has spent years fighting against conservation-related human rights abuses. Now he's been arrested. Read more about it in East Mojo: svlint.org/EastMojo #DecolonizeConservation

Today's International Tiger Day 🐅 🇮🇳 Thousands of Indigenous people are being evicted from their homes - to turn them into tiger reserves. The idea that people and tigers cannot coexist is rooted in colonial thinking. ✊ Help end illegal evictions from tiger reserves: svlint.org/TigerReservesB

📢 Can you take action? We’re close to hitting 40,000 emails sent to the Indian government telling them to scrap plans to turn Great Nicobar island, home to the uncontacted Shompen, into ‘the Hong Kong of India.’ Will you help us reach the goal? Send one now 👉 svlint.org/ShompenB

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli

Lucas Manchineri @lucasmanchineri spoke at the UN about uncontacted peoples’ rights. 👏 Survival’s research shows that there are 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples and groups around the world. Their isolation is a form of resistance against their potential genocides: uncontactedpeoples.org

“Uncontacted” doesn’t mean cut off — it means resisting. Against invasion. Against disease. Against extinction. For survival. Learn more at uncontactedpeoples.org

🚨 #India: UN denounces Pranab Doley’s politically-motivated arrest! It's been nine days since local police in India surrounded the house where Indigenous land rights activist Pranab Doley was staying and took him into custody – without an arrest warrant.

Throwback to when Ngigoro, an Indigenous Hongana Manyawa man, traveled from the Indonesian island of Halmahera all the way to Europe to warn the world: “Stop the mining, or my people will die.”

🚩 Ngorongoro in Tanzania is a UNESCO World Heritage Site – and home to the Maasai people, who have lived there for generations. For years, the Tanzanian government has pushed to evict Maasai communities from their land, framing it as "voluntary relocation"

Four years ago today, Karapiru Awá passed away. His smile, warmth, and kindness were all the more remarkable given the indescribable tragedy inflicted upon him by non-Indigenous society. In the 1980s, outsiders killed his wife, son, daughter, mother, & siblings. Another son was wounded & captured.

“We're heavily targeted by agribusiness” Discrimination, “development” projects, mining, deforestation... what other threats do you think Indigenous peoples are facing today? Leave a comment and give us a follow. #IndigenousVoices

🚨 #News: Dozens of police officers in India surrounded the house where Indigenous land rights activist Pranab Doley was staying on Sunday. They took him into custody without an arrest warrant.

One year after they reclaimed their forest, the 52 Jenu Kuruba families are still there ✊ Every safari ticket sold in India’s Nagarhole tiger reserve funds the system that tries to erase them.

“If we destroy the lands of uncontacted Indigenous peoples, what will they eat?” Mandeí Juma is a survivor of the violence that her people the Juma faced throughout their history. Invaders massacred them, spead disease and forced them out of their lands. Learn more: uncontactedpeoples.org

We protested outside the Lineapelle London leather exhibition. We’re campaigning to stop the annihilation of the Indigenous Ayoreo people, including their uncontacted relatives, by agribusiness. Now’s the time to stand up with the Ayoreo, for their survival: svlint.org/AyoreoB

#WorldHeritage: Most people associate it with breathtaking landscapes and culturally rich places worth protecting. But did you know that many of @unesco's World Heritage Sites are the ancestral homes of Indigenous peoples – and in many of these places, they are evicted from their homes? 😵‍💫

Wow, congratulations to Paraguay this World Cup! ⚽️ The Indigenous Ayoreo people are celebrating the win. Normally, they’ve got their fists up not in celebration, but in resistance. Right now, they’re fighting for their land rights in Paraguay and their uncontacted relatives’ survival.

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The genocide of the people of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon passed unnoticed by the outside world. Now that they’re gone, their territory has been declared a National Park.

If you're going into a holiday period, consider these dos & don’ts before you travel to Indigenous lands. 👇️ Beware that many tourist destinations are empty of the very people who originally managed the lands and protected the nature & wildlife we see there today.

⚠️ Indigenous people in Northern Kenya have denounced the controversial conservation organization Northern Rangelands Trust’s (NRT) attempt to revive its notorious and twice-suspended Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project (NKGCP). They’ve accused it of “tricks and dishonest dealings.”

Thank you for taking action for the survival of uncontacted peoples this week. Did you know if governments don’t act now, half of the world’s uncontacted peoples could be wiped out in 10 years? That’s why it’s urgent that you take action. Stand with uncontacted peoples: svlint.org/KeepUpdatedB

🏹 #UncontactedPeoplesWeek: Today we’re talking about the uncontacted Ayoreo Totobiegosode. 👉They’re the only known uncontacted Indigenous people in South America living outside the Amazon. Their territory is in the Chaco, on the border between Paraguay and Bolivia.

The Mashco Piro. They're believed to be the uncontacted people with the largest population in the world. But right now, their survival is at risk. While most are believed to live in the south-east of Peru, many Mashco Piro people also live in Brazil, where they occupy mostly protected territories.

Weda Bay Nickel is the world’s largest nickel mine, created by gouging out the heart of an abundant rainforest on Halmahera Island, Indonesia. This forest is the home of the uncontacted Hongana Manyawa, one of the largest group of uncontacted people on Earth.

⚠️ 100 complaints, zero answers: Volkswagen’s carbon project in Tanzania ⚠️ A Volkswagen joint venture called VW Climate Partner is developing a carbon credit project on nearly 1 million hectares of Maasai land in northern Tanzania – without their free, prior, and informed consent.

As a child, Atxu lived uncontacted in the Brazilian Amazon with his family. But then he was forcibly contacted, and adopted by a non-Indigenous family. It wasn’t easy for him to adapt to life outside the forest. This #UncontactedPeoplesWeek, follow us to learn more about uncontacted peoples.