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Help Indigenous Kuy communities stop destruction of this unique primary forest. During the last 50 years, almost half of the world’s forests have been destroyed.  How can we protect our remaining forests, which contain 80 percent of terrestrial species and provide livelihoods for nearly a...
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VICTORY! Cultural Survival joins Native American and First Nations peoples and environmental organizations in calling on President Obama to reject a proposal to build the Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry crude oil from the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada, across the United States to the Gulf...
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Construction threatens World Heritage Site, national parks, and sacred lands of the Telengit people.  For at least 8,000 years, people have journeyed to the high Ukok Plateau to bury their dead with sacred ceremonies and give offerings to the spirits of the heavens, the mountains, and the...
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A Chinese dam project threatens Central America’s largest tropical rainforest and Indigenous populations.   The Moskitia (mos-KEE-tya): it’s the largest, most magnificent expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it...
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Phulbari open-pit mine would displace thousands of Indigenous people. A British company is trying to sell a bill of goods to one of the world’s poorest countries, Bangladesh. Global Coal Management Resources (GCM) wants to bulldoze 12,000 acres of Bangladesh’s most productive agricultural land and...
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Latest VICTORY! March 8, 2011. More Action Needed.VICTORY! November 1, 2010. More Action Needed. Indigenous Peoples, environmental groups, and labor organizations in Panama are outraged over new laws that undermine human rights and erode environmental protections. When thousands of protesters...