For decades, the slender-billed curlew, a grayish-brown migratory wetland bird with a long, arched bill, has evaded detection, prompting speculation about whether the species is still out there. Now, a new study has confirmed that the species is indeed most likely extinct. “Speaking personally it’s a source of deep sadness,” Geoff Hilton, conservation scientist at […]

Tucabaca Valley Municipal Wildlife Reserve comprises more than 2,640 square kilometers (1,020 square miles) of semi-arid forest and tropical savannah in the heart of southern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. However, this protected area and surrounding habitat is being lost to industrial agriculture and associated fires and infrastructure development. The Tucabaca (also referred to as “Tucavaca”) reserve […]

Certain minerals and elements, including cobalt, copper, lithium and nickel, are crucial for the manufacture of renewable energy technologies, including electric vehicles and solar panels. However, the extraction and processing of those minerals often takes place in developing countries, far from public scrutiny and without consent from local communities, which can be left with the […]

Negotiators at the ongoing U.N. climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, have adopted a controversial provision on carbon trading that critics say will enable rich countries and companies to simply pay to continue emitting. The adoption of Article 6 from the Paris Agreement will outline ways that countries and companies can trade emissions on a carbon […]

Baka men, Dakar village, near Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo. Many people in the village have been beaten or abused by park rangers. “We are afraid that if park rangers see us in the forest they will beat us.” © Survival Campaigners voice concerns that an investigation into Af...

Paulo Paulino “Lobo” Guajajara, Guardian of the Amazon, was killed in an ambush by loggers. © Sarah Shenker/Survival International Marking the fifth anniversary since Paulo Paulino Guajajara was ambushed by loggers

Sept 2024 Adivasi (Indigenous) people have organized mass protests across India to denounce forced evictions from their forests to make way for tiger reserves. Thousands of people facing eviction from their villages, and some already evicted, have joined the protests last week and this week at ...

A Guarani man called Neri was killed during a military police attack against the Guarani community of Nhanderu Marangatu in Brazil. The region is central to the Guarani’s fight for demarcation. © Survival Attack took place in an area that has been re-occupied by the community