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Exposed: fracking licenses granted in Bushmen’s reserve
Posted by Survival International: None Given on November 25th, 2013
Survival International: Large parts of Botswana`s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) – home to Africa`s last hunting Bushmen – have been opened up to international companies for the controversial practice of 'fracking`, according to an investigation for the documentary film 'The High Cost of Cheap Gas` and British newspaper The Guardian.
A leaked map shows that exploration concessions have been granted for half of the CKGR – a reserve larger than Switzerland – raising fears of land grabbing, a drop in water levels...
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Brazilian Indians’ water ‘poisoned’ in bitter land dispute
Posted by Survival International: None Given on November 21st, 2012
Survival International: A community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches.
The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which spread quickly to cover much of the stream for two days.
The Indians said, ‘the children were bathing when they saw the white foam…we followed the stream up to the ranch, where we saw two large containers.’
The ranch in question belongs to Brazilian...
Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on World Food Day
Posted by Survival International: None Given on October 15th, 2012
Survival International: Violent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’.
As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger on October 16 (World Food Day), Ethiopia continues to jeopardize the food security and livelihoods of 200,000 of its self-sufficient tribal people.
Tribes such as the Suri, Mursi, Bodi and Kwegu are being violently evicted from their villages...
Death threat from Shell supplier on Brazilian tribe’s land
Posted by Survival International: None Given on June 5th, 2011
Survival International: Energy giant Shell's joint venture partner, Cosan, is buying sugarcane grown on Guarani land. A Brazilian rancher supplying sugarcane to a joint venture partner of energy giant Shell has reportedly issued a death threat against a political opponent. José Teixeira, who is also a state deputy, is said to have recently warned a political rival that, ‘If it were up to me, you’d be under the ground.’ Teixeira is renting out part of his ranch for sugarcane production, even though the Government has confirmed...