Dear Jack,

2020 has brought disasters such as Covid-19 and the Amazon fires for many tribal and indigenous peoples – but it also brought many successes; victories that would not have been possible without you.

From lobbying governments to calling out abuses by conservation giants, you and tribal peoples together have achieved so much – here are just a few of your successes:


🏹 Uncontacted Tribes

We worked around the clock to raise the alarm about Brazil's genocide, and to combat President Bolsonaro's attacks on Brazil's indigenous peoples. Our friend Tainaky, an Amazon Guardian, told us: “If Survival hadn't been around for the last 50 years, the world wouldn't know what's going on in uncontacted tribes' territories. Many more peoples may well have been made extinct.”

After almost a year of campaigning alongside indigenous organization UNIVAJA and others, the evangelical missionary Ricardo Lopes Dias was removed from office as head of Brazil’s Uncontacted Tribes department. We’d described his appointment as “like putting the fox in charge of the hen house” – it threatened uncontacted tribes throughout Brazil, and beyond.

Teaming up with the Yanomami and Ye’kwana peoples and several organizations, we demanded the removal of thousands of illegal gold miners from deep inside the Yanomami territory on the Brazil/Venezuela border. The result? Over 439,000 people signed the petition which Hutukara Yanomami Association handed to Brazil’s first indigenous Congresswoman. In a historic first, Yanomami paintings and messages were projected onto Brazil’s Congress.

 

🌱 #DecolonizeConservation

Bowing to your pressure, the US government, EU and UNDP all suspended or cancelled funding that was fuelling human rights abuses in the name of conservation. These decisions sent shockwaves through the big conservation organizations, hitting them where it hurts.

After an avalanche of critical media coverage, some of the biggest backers of this notorious project on Baka land suspended their funding – watch the Baka calling out some conservation funding giants. But WWF seems determined to carry on, so the fight is not yet over!

Nearly 200 organizations and experts have now joined our call to stop the biggest land grab in history.
 

🏭 Factory Schools

After we launched our #FactorySchools campaign, almost 300 Adivasi leaders, activists and academics persuaded the World Anthropology Congress to scrap plans to hold their conference at the world’s biggest factory school, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS).

There’s been an incredible leap in awareness and exposure of the issues surrounding #FactorySchools. Our unique webinars brought together indigenous representatives and experts from Canada, the US and India. 
 
 

There are no words to convey our gratitude, and so we can only thank you again. Thank you to our donors, fundraisers, hikers and climbers, advocates and activists and volunteers. Thank you for not giving up the fight, and for standing alongside tribal peoples to help create a better world, together.
 

For tribes, for nature, for all humanity.
 

 

Jade Bridgwood

Survival International

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