Indigenous peoples everywhere are resisting fortress conservation and winning. Stand with them now and act today.
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Jenu Kuruba families begin to construct a house for their ancestors, as they rebuild their old village inside Nagarhole National Park © Sartaz Ali Barkat/Survival
Dear Jack,
It might be the most inspiring thing I’ve seen in my 30 years at Survival: in India, dozens of Jenu Kuruba people have peacefully returned to their home in what is now the Nagarhole Tiger Reserve.
The Jenu Kuruba had been evicted in the name of tiger conservation, and ended up working in slave-like conditions on coffee plantations. But the bond with their land remained strong — and now around 200 Jenu Kuruba have returned.
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They’ve built shelters, and a home for their forest gods. For the first time in 40 years, Jenu Kuruba children from Karadikallu village play in the forests of their ancestors again. Despite fears of police harassment, the mood is joyful.
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Indigenous resistance is likely the most uncompromising movement the world has ever seen. And it’s global: Please help us today and support two more of our key campaigns, which are at a crucial turning point.
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Indigenous herders in Northern Kenya have successfully challenged the powerful conservation organisation Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) in court. The court ruled that some of its activities in the area are unconstitutional and illegal, dealing a major blow to NRT.
NRT covers an astonishing 10% of Kenya’s landmass and pastoralists say that it has fuelled violence and conflict and is using their lands without their consent.
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The ruling also triggered the suspension of NRT’s carbon project, the world’s largest project designed to absorb CO2 in the soil. It promotes false solutions to climate change and curtails the sustainable grazing practices of the Maasai, Borana and other cattle-herding peoples.
This isn’t even the first time it’s been suspended – it was suspended once before, after Survival’s devastating “Blood Carbon” report was published in 2023. That report revealed the project’s major flaws, and its serious impact on Indigenous people. Then, the subsequent review resulted in a shocking whitewash. Jack, act to make sure that this time the project is scrapped for good.
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Since the Baka people around Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Congo told us about the horrific abuses they are experiencing at the hands of park rangers, Survival has been campaigning to stop this nightmare.
Now, an investigation into the conservation organization African Parks, which manages the park, has confirmed multiple abuses. This comes after years of African Parks ignoring and discrediting the Baka’s complaints.
But African Parks is trying to bury the news and it has refused to make the findings of the investigation public. Help us keep up the pressure and challenge the whole model of conservation that keeps Indigenous people out of their lands by force.
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Thank you for your support,
Sophie Grig
Research & Advocacy
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