Dear Jack,
Today is the start of World #UncontactedTribesWeek – a week dedicated to fighting for uncontacted tribes’ rights and raising awareness about them.
There are more than 100 such tribes around the world, from the Amazon to Indonesia, and they’re the most vulnerable peoples on the planet.
If they’re left in peace they thrive, but everywhere their lands are being destroyed – illegally invaded by loggers, miners and cattle ranchers. Many have been massacred – and incredibly, these atrocities continue today.
Since 1969, Survival has led the global campaign for the protection of uncontacted tribes’ lands. This #UncontactedTribesWeek we’re focusing on three critical cases:
- in Brazil, we’ve revealed a secret plot to wipe out several uncontacted tribes.
- in Peru, five uncontacted tribal territories are still unprotected, after 27 years of government delay.
- in Paraguay, the last uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon live on the run, fleeing the bulldozers that are razing their last refuge.
Please follow the #UncontactedTribesWeek hashtag on social media – we’ll be bringing you news, facts, and above all, ways you can get involved.
And on Friday June 25 at 11am EDT/ 4pm UK/ 5pm CET we’ll be going live on Survival’s Instagram with Sarah Shenker, head of our Uncontacted Tribes campaign – bring yourself, your friends and your questions! If you’re a Spanish speaker, our researcher Teresa Mayo will be live on Survival Spain’s Facebook on Wednesday June 23 at 6pm CET.
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Lastly, if you’re in the UK, don’t miss the chance to see a retrospective of Claudia Andujar’s work at the Barbican in London. Along with the Yanomami themselves, their allies in Brazil and Survival, she played a key role in the long struggle to secure their land, especially through CCPY, the pro-Yanomami Commission that she co-founded. Claudia’s extraordinary photos of the Yanomami people are testament to a lifetime of commitment and friendship.
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Dario Kopenawa Yanomami, vice president of Hutukara Yanomami Association told us: “Claudia Andujar’s photos are an important recognition of the situation of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana peoples in the 1970s and 80s. The result is really good and non-indigenous peoples, young people, students and children will understand what happened to the Yanomami then and what is happening to us now. Her photos help a lot in defending indigenous rights, especially the rights of the Yanomami and Ye’kwana people, and help people to understand our situation today.”
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Best wishes,
Fiona Watson
Research and Advocacy Director
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#UncontactedTribesWeek: updates, news, actions
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🎥Video
The future of several uncontacted tribes will be decided in 2021.
Their rainforest territories, deep in the Brazilian Amazon, are shielded by emergency “Land Protection Orders” which are about to expire.
Watch and share our video!
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📌Social media
- Wednesday June 23, 6pm: Facebook Live with our Researcher Teresa Mayo (in Spanish)
- Friday June 25, 11am EDT/ 4pm UK/ 5pm CET: Instagram Live with Sarah Shenker, head of our Uncontacted Tribes Campaign (in English)
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P.S. Unlike many NGOs, we reject government funding so our integrity is never compromised. We rely entirely on your donations to keep fighting for tribal peoples worldwide. Please donate today. Without you, there can be no Survival.
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