COLOMBO — A big part of conserving any wildlife species is to conserve its natural habitat. But when that becomes an increasingly difficult task due to human-driven changes in those environments, the next best thing to do is to hold on to those altered habitats. That’s the surprise finding from a new study on the […]

An illegal armed group connected to land grabbers killed four members of the indigenous Mayangna people, left two injured and burned 16 houses in northern Nicaragua on Jan. 29, according to the UN Human Rights Office. The UN Human Rights Office condemned the Nicaraguan government for allowing impunity for crimes committed against Nicaragua’s indigenous communities: […]

COLOMBO — In recent years, leopards in Sri Lanka (Panthera pardus kotiya), an endangered subspecies native to the island, have been grabbing local and international headlines for all the wrong reasons. At the end of last year an adult male leopard was found dead and mutilated at Uda Walawe National Park. The killers had allegedly […]

The extinction of the Chinese paddlefish, announced by researchers in January 2020, is entirely the result of human impacts on the Yangtze River over the last 50 to 60 years. This tragic event serves to highlight the challenges facing many of the world’s migratory freshwater fish species. Many of these species could still be saved […]

© Mídia Ninja Indigenous peoples across Brazil are protesting against President Bolsonaro’s plan to steal their lands and open them up for exploitation. On 5 February, the President signed a draft law known as “PL191/2020”, which allows large-scale mining, oil and gas extraction, and oth...

Budhan Mahato, evicted at the age of 12 from Kastuhani village inside Chitwan National Park (Nepal, 2018) © Survival (Sophie Grig) London Zoo has been fiercely criticized by indigenous organizations in Nepal over a fundraising video which campaigners describe as “patronizing rubbish.” T...

A Baka woman whose husband, named Komanda, was arrested by rangers in Messok Dja, then imprisoned on false accusations of poaching. In prison he was brutally assaulted by other prisoners, and died soon after being released. © Survival International A WWF project in central Africa has been ...

Raoni Metuktire, Davi Yanomami, Megaron Txucarramae, Dario Yanomami hand in a letter to 10 Downing St. © R Gauditano/ Survival Some of the Amazon’s most prominent indigenous leaders have handed in a letter to 10 Downing St, calling on Boris Johnson’s government to “stand with us to defend ...