Dear Kate,

If you’re receiving this email, you’ve definitely heard of uncontacted tribes — as the world’s most vulnerable peoples, the fight for their survival is one of our key campaigns. Survival is the only organization fighting worldwide against the genocide of uncontacted tribes.

But how much do you really know about uncontacted tribes – Indigenous peoples who choose to avoid all contact with outsiders? And is what you know true, or based on dangerous myths?

This new video on the deadly myths surrounding uncontacted tribes marks the beginning of our Uncontacted Tribes Week. Every day this week, we’ll be sharing facts about some of the world’s uncontacted tribes, the threats to their survival, and what you can do to help.

If you have 5 minutes each day for the next 7 days, join us in learning about uncontacted tribes and uplifting Indigenous voices.

And for those who want to delve a little deeper, we have invitations on Wednesday for a feature film about the only two known uncontacted survivors of the Piripkura people, and on Friday for an online talk with Survival campaigners.

As our friend Tainaky, a Guajajara man fighting for his people's uncontacted neighbours, said recently:  “[Without Survival] the world wouldn't know what's going on in uncontacted tribes' territories. Many more peoples may well have been made extinct.”

We’re excited to offer you a deeper look into this crucial issue, and take you behind the scenes of our Uncontacted Tribes campaign. We hope you’ll join us!

With warm wishes,

Sarah Shenker
Uncontacted Tribes Campaign

P.S. It's a tragic irony not lost on any of us that Uncontacted Tribes Week falls just days after the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips in Brazil's Javari Valley, home to more uncontacted tribes than anywhere else on Earth. Their killings are a terrible reminder that many uncontacted tribes' territories are being invaded, and that miners, loggers and drug traffickers operate with near-total impunity.