This is a crucial moment for Indigenous peoples and their lands.The Guide to Decolonize Language in Conservation is out now!

Dear Jack,

Changing language, changing minds

Have you ever wondered why we call meat “game” when it comes from animals hunted
by Europeans and Americans, but “bushmeat” when hunted by Africans?

Did you know that all national parks in the UK, and many in Europe, have people
living in them, but in Africa and much of Asia it’s not allowed?

And why do we think of “wilderness” as a “natural” landscape empty of people,
when in fact almost all such places have been inhabited, shaped and managed by
people for millennia?

How we talk about conservation, and the language we use, shapes our way of
thinking, our policies and our actions. And the violence and land grabs faced by
millions of Indigenous and other local people in the name of conservation stem
in large part from these concepts.

That’s why we’ve produced a new Guide
[[link removed]] to decolonize language in conservation. It tackles many familiar terms, and
explains the hidden histories behind others. In the first phase of our campaign
we sent the Guide to hundreds of journalists writing about conservation and
climate change – and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive:

“An eye-opening email.. what you write is so true.” “Really striking.” “Spot on
and very useful.” “[There are] points in there I haven’t considered.” “Brilliant
idea and very well executed.”

And we’ve also started receiving some feedback from Indigenous people:
“Amazing,” Pranab, Mising Tribe, India; “Inspiring,” Elias, Sengwer people,
Kenya; “Exceedingly powerful.” Joseph, Maasai, Tanzania.

In the months to come we’ll be promoting the Guide on social media. If you work
in the fields of conservation or climate change, or even if you don’t, do read
it – and share it as widely as you can.

Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu in the Tate Modern © Survival

Survival at the Tate

Renowned Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña has a stunning new multimedia
installation in London’s Tate Modern – and Survival’s involved. Brain Forest Quipu
[[link removed]] hangs in the vast Turbine Hall, and “asks visitors to think about the
destruction of our forests, the impact of climate change, violence against
Indigenous people, and how we can come together.”

Alongside it, a Digital Quipu weaves together videos of Indigenous people
fighting to defend their lands – many of them are from Survival’s Tribal Voice project
[[link removed]] . If you’re in London between now and April 2023, do visit.

Illegal gold mining is destroying the Yanomami Indigenous Territory © Colin
Jones/Survival

Relief at last for Brazil’s Indigenous peoples?

Lula’s win in Brazil’s presidential election is a crucial moment for Indigenous
peoples and their lands. We hope it will allow for a desperately-needed shift
from the devastating and criminal onslaught of the last four years
[[link removed]] . It’s a matter of life or death for Indigenous people nationwide, and for the
uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, it could mean the difference between survival
and complete destruction. Here’s our statement. [[link removed]]

A new book on the Yanomami

The Yanomami communities in northern Brazil have suffered appallingly under
President Bolsonaro, who’s allowed and even encouraged the deadly invasion of
their territory by gold miners. The miners have brought a tidal wave of death and destruction
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Meanwhile renowned anthropologist Leslie Sponsel’s new book on the Yanomami
[[link removed]] is out, and all royalties go to Survival’s urgent campaign with the Yanomami
and other tribal peoples. Few other Amazonian peoples have been the subject so
much media attention, or been so maligned – Sponsel’s book is a vital correction
to the false and racist portrayal of them in the past as “the fierce people.”



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