Dear Jack,

Our movement started the year with an amazing show of support for Indigenous peoples around the world. Act for Survival 2025 was one of the most successful weeks of action in our history, with over 13,000 of you emailing funders of violent conservation to stop abuses and evictions.

Your actions bring real results. Here are some key successes you’ve helped bring about just in the last few months:

• The Mamoriá Grande territory in Brazil – home to uncontacted people – was finally given a Land Protection Order. The Brazilian Indigenous Affairs Agency verified the existence of uncontacted people in the area three years ago, but had not acted to protect their lands.
  
  While we didn’t know much about the people living in the area, we knew they were in great danger from invaders, disease and land theft if their land wasn’t protected. Land Protection Orders make it illegal for unauthorized outsiders like loggers or missionaries to enter the territory. Three years on, after constant campaigning and support from their friends around the world, the territory is now safer than it's ever been.

• Two years ago we started our campaign to stop a carbon offsetting project on Indigenous lands in Kenya. It allows companies to greenwash their image by paying to “offset” pollution elsewhere. The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) Carbon project was imposed on the lands of the pastoralist Samburu, Borana and Rendille Indigenous people without their consent, using armed rangers to change their sustainable grazing patterns.
  
  Just this year, a court in Kenya sided with Indigenous people and confirmed that two of the NRT’s conservancies, including one involved in the carbon project, were established unconstitutionally. It ordered the heavily armed rangers – who’ve been accused of harassing, torturing and killing Indigenous people – to leave them.
  
  This is a major blow to the violent and unjust conservation practices in Kenya. Over 9,000 of you helped get us here by sending emails pressuring these conservation and carbon credit organizations.

• The UN recently published new guidelines to stop the funding of human rights violations within the conservation industry. For decades, Survival and our supporters have been fighting fortress conservation and the evictions, killings and torture it inflicts on Indigenous peoples.
  
  These standards represent a significant step towards the international recognition of these concerns. They include minimum requirements for conservation organizations and their funders, such as not committing human rights violations and respecting Indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination, land, and consent. Thank you for standing by Indigenous peoples in amplifying their rightful concerns about racist and violent conservation.

All of our victories are your victories too. Without you lending your voice and standing with Indigenous peoples, many of these steps towards justice would not have happened.

Thank you,

Simonas Bartulis
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