2023 has been truly a tumultuous year for Indigenous people all around the world, as well as Survival. Here is how your support made a difference!Children dancing in the Indigenous Ashaninka village of Tsirotiari along the Ene
River in Peru's central Amazon region. © Neil Giardino

Dear Jack,

2023 has been a year of tremendous highs and dangerous lows for the world’s
Indigenous peoples, and for Survival’s campaigns alongside them.

A new era in Brazil after the horrors of former-President Bolsonaro, and
successes in Survival campaigns like the defeat of the ‘Genocide Bill’ in Peru
and a marked reduction in violence against the Baka people in the Congo offered
rays of hope for the Indigenous peoples we work with. But they’ve also faced
ferocious attacks - from governments, corporations, big conservation
organizations, agribusiness and others - on their rights, lands and lives.

In the face of these challenges, we’ve been operating with greater intensity
than ever before. In just one year, we launched three new campaigns: for
uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people threatened by nickel mining in Halmahera
Island, Indonesia; for the Shompen of India’s Great Nicobar Island, whose
peaceful island home is scheduled to be turned into the “Hong Kong of India”;
and the Blood Carbon campaign, highlighting how carbon offset greenwashing
schemes are making millions from Indigenous land while destroying their way of
living.

Nomadic Hongana Manyawa family. Photo taken during early contact. © Survival

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All this has only been possible with your support. Even during a year where the cost of living crisis has impacted
people’s ability to give, you not only sustained our campaigning but made us
able to share with you these tremendous victories throughout 2023:

After intense lobbying together Peruvian Indigenous organizations and almost 13,000 emails sent by Survival supporters , the Peruvian Congress scrapped a bill infamously known as the Genocide Bill.
If approved, it could have decimated uncontacted peoples by opening up their
land to exploitation by powerful gas and oil interests.

In the Congo, the Baka people of Messok Dja have told our campaigners during a
visit that the level of violence perpetrated by WWF-funded rangers against them
has dramatically decreased after efforts by Survival and our supporters.

Meanwhile, after concerted Survival lobbying, the French government scrapped its plan to fund the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where atrocities against the Batwa people
were documented.

In a landmark victory in Brazil, the Supreme Court rejected the Time Limit
Trick. This proposal would allow the theft of vast areas of Indigenous lands if
Indigenous people cannot prove that they were living there on the day the
Brazilian Constitution was signed in 1988. However, the Brazilian Congress just
passed the “Bill of Death” which includes the Time Limit Trick provision among
other extreme anti-Indigenous measures. We are hopeful the Supreme Court will
intervene and overturn this genocidal law, against which almost 35,000 of you sent emails to Congresspeople.

Our Uncontacted Tribes Week was a record-breaking week in 2022, with supporters
sending out 21,000 campaign emails. In 2023, you broke the record again by sending or signing more than 28,000 petitions and
emails about our uncontacted peoples campaigns during that week!

Survival is a movement powered by tens of thousands of supporters from all
corners of the world. Your actions and your donations make our successes
possible and sustain our close work with Indigenous peoples everywhere. By
staying active, you stand together with them as they continue to fight for their
lands, livelihoods and survival.

Thank you so much for being with us during this tumultuous yet rewarding year.
If you can, please consider donating before the year ends. For anyone living in
the US, this is your last chance to make a tax-deductible gift to support our vital work!

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Happy holidays from Survival,



Caroline Pearce
Director
Survival International

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