Dear Jack,

We’re beginning 2026 full of gratitude, energy and hope. Survival is a movement of hundreds of thousands of people like you, and your efforts fighting alongside Indigenous peoples for their rights helped make the world a better place last year. The forces against us are strong - but you have been part of showing our collective power to fight back. Here are just a few victories from the last 12 months:

Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples Report

In October, we released a landmark report on the world’s uncontacted peoples, highlighting the threats to their survival, and their astonishing acts of resistance. You can read more about it here, but the report’s central conclusion was sobering: that all uncontacted peoples face threats to their existence.

Alongside the report we launched a campaign targeting extractive industries like logging and mining – they’re the number one threat to uncontacted peoples. In one month, more than 10,000 of you took part in the campaign action, and several key industry bodies are already scrambling to respond.

Jenu Kuruba

Last April, 52 Indigenous Jenu Kuruba families in India who were evicted from their ancestral forest in the 1980s to make way for a tiger reserve marched back into the forest to their old villages.

The authorities tried to evict them once more, but our supporters acted quickly in the face of this emergency: more than 6,000 of you responded in just 48 hours, demanding the authorities stop.

It worked – and the Jenu Kuruba are still there.

African Parks

Conservation organization African Parks has for decades been funding rangers who abuse, even torture, the Indigenous people whose lands have been stolen for national parks and other Protected Areas.

Survival’s long-running campaign to stop this has shone a spotlight on atrocities that would otherwise pass unnoticed.

Survival’s pressure and public concern forced African Parks to commission a law firm to investigate abuses against Baka Indigenous people in the Congo, though they already knew full well what had been going on. The firm’s report confirmed that multiple abuses have taken place against the Baka, though shamefully African Parks refused to make it public. Our campaign will continue until the whole model of conservation which seizes Indigenous peoples’ land and evicts them is stopped.

Central Kalahari, Botswana

Last year there was a political earthquake in Botswana: Duma Boko, one of the lawyers for the Gana and Gwi Indigenous people of the Kalahari in their landmark 2006 victory against the government, became President.

Our staff, who had been banned by the previous government, were once again able to visit Botswana. It was wonderful to return at last to our old Gana and Gwi friends inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, who had returned to their ancestral lands after the court case.

But the previous government had made life very hard for them, and they faced severe water shortages. Now, with your support, we’ve been able to repair a broken borehole in one community, and we’re working with all the communities in the reserve to see what else they need to flourish in the reserve once more.

There are, of course, many challenges ahead. In the last few weeks, for example, anti-Indigenous politicians in Brazil have proposed new laws that would open up Indigenous territories to logging and mining.

But we know that you and thousands of other Survival supporters will stand up for the Indigenous peoples who we’ve worked alongside for so long.

Thank you for all you do.

Caroline Pearce
Director