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Ayoreo Indians protest at government inaction over illegal deforestation
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Ayoreo Indians protest against Yaguareté Porã S.A. which is rapidly
destroying their forest home for beef production.
© GAT

Relatives of the last uncontacted Indians outside Amazonia
(http://survivalinternational.org/ayoreo?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
held a protest on Wednesday to demand the urgent protection of their land,
which is being destroyed by cattle ranchers.

Brazilian firm Yaguareté Porã S.A.
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/yaguarete?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
is destroying the last refuge of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians in
Paraguay to make way for cattle that is sold for beef to European and
Russian markets.

Uncontacted members of the tribe have been living on the run as their homes
are bulldozed by the ranchers.

Many Ayoreo have already been forced out of the forest, and are now being
wiped out by diseases
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10143?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
like flu and measles to which they have no resistance.

Members of the tribe arrived outside the Attorney General’s office in
Filadelfia in northern Paraguay to demand official intervention to stop
Yaguarete from continuing its destructive work.

Satellite images have caught the company red-handed illegally clearing the
Ayoreo’s forest home in the Chaco. The area now has the fastest rate of
deforestation in the world.
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9911?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)

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The Ayoreo handed in a document to the Attorney General urging it to uphold
Paraguay’s constitution that guarantees the Ayoreo ownership of their
ancestral land.

Yaguarete owner Marcelo Bastos Ferraz has refused
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9972?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
to return the land to its indigenous owners, or to stop his rapid
deforestation.

Survival has launched an advertising campaign warning Paraguay’s biggest
beef market, Russia,
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10284?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
of the dangers its imports pose to the lives of the vulnerable uncontacted
Indians.

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Amazon Indian protests outside Jimmy Nelson photo exhibition in London
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Nixiwaka Yawanawá protested against the ʼoutrageousʼ exhibition of Jimmy
Nelsonʼs work at Londonʼs Atlas Gallery today, wearing his ceremonial
headdress.
© Sophie Pinchetti/Survival

An Amazon Indian protested outside the exhibition of controversial
photographer Jimmy Nelson’s work “Before They Pass Away” at London’s Atlas
Gallery today.

Nelson’s work has been attacked by indigenous peoples around the world, as
well as Survival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’
rights – for portraying a false and damaging picture of tribal peoples
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10244?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
.

Nixiwaka Yawanawá from Acre state in Brazil handed a letter to the gallery
and said, “As a tribal person I feel offended by Jimmy Nelson’s work ’Before
They Pass Away’. It’s outrageous! We are not passing away but struggling to
survive. Industrialized society is trying to destroy us in the name of
‘progress’, but we will keep defending our lands and contributing to the
protection of the planet.”

Read the letter to London’s Atlas Gallery
(http://assets.survivalinternational.org/documents/1284/140925-atlasgallery-nelson.pdf?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
(pdf, 10MB)

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Famed photographer Jimmy Nelsonʼs work ʼBefore They Pass Awayʼ has been
attacked by tribal peoples around the world.
© Jimmy Nelson/teNeues

While Nelson claims his work is “ethnographic fact”, Survival Director
Stephen Corry denounces it as a photographer’s fantasy
(http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23986-turning-a-blind-eye-to-pure-old-vibrations?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
which bears little relationship either to how the people pictured look now,
or how they ever appeared. Nelson’s subjects are supposed to be “passing
away”, but no mention is made of the genocidal violence they are being
subjected to.

The photos of Waorani girls from Ecuador, for example, portray them shorn of
the clothes that contacted Waorani routinely wear, and wearing “fig” leaves
to protect their modesty, which they have never done (previous generations
of Waorani women wore a simple waist string).

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Nelson portrays Waorani girls unclothed with a ʼfigʼ leaf.
© Jimmy Nelson/teNeues

The Dani of West Papua
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/papuan?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
are wrongly called the “the most dreaded head-hunting tribe of Papua”. But
no mention is made of the killings, torture and intimidation they have
suffered under the Indonesian occupation since 1963.

Papuan tribal leader Benny Wenda said, “What Jimmy Nelson says about us is
not true. My people, the Dani people, were never headhunters, it was never
our tradition. The real headhunters are the Indonesian military who have
been killing my people. My people are still strong and we fight for our
freedom. We are not ‘passing away’, we are being killed by the brutal
Indonesian soldiers. That is the truth.”

Nelson’s work has also received fierce criticism from tribal peoples in
North America and New Zealand. A Maori blogger
(http://jdhq.blogspot.ca/2013/11/were-not-dead-yet.html?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
wrote, "Maori people are not part of a dying breed and we don’t need to be
portrayed as such, for a book, ” and Cowlitz Indian Elissa Washuta wrote in
Salon magazine
(http://www.salon.com/2013/11/24/americas_wrongheaded_obsession_with_vanishing_indigenous_peoples/?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
, “Nelson’s mission is built on a horrifying assumption: that these
indigenous peoples are on the brink of destruction. He couldn’t be more
wrong.”

Davi Kopenawa
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/davi?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
, spokesman of the Yanomami tribe in Brazil and known as the “Dalai Lama of
the Rainforest”, said during his recent visit to London, “I saw the photos
and I didn’t like them. This man only wants to force his own ideas on the
photos, to publish them in books and to show them to everyone so that people
will think he’s a great photographer. Just like Chagnon
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/8997?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
, he does whatever he wants with indigenous peoples. It is not true that
indigenous peoples are about to die out. We will be around for a long time,
fighting for our land, living in this world and continuing to create our
children.”

Notes to Editors:

- Download images of Nixiwaka Yawanawá at the Atlas Gallery in London

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Nixiwaka Yawanawá protested against the "outrageous" exhibition of Jimmy
Nelson's work at London's Atlas Gallery, wearing his ceremonial headdress.
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Nelson's work at London's Atlas Gallery, wearing his ceremonial headdress.
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Nixiwaka Yawanawá protested against the "outrageous" exhibition of Jimmy
Nelson's work at London's Atlas Gallery, wearing his ceremonial headdress.
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Amazon Indian Nixiwaka Yawanawá handed a letter to London's Atlas Gallery
stating 'We are not passing away, we are struggling to survive.'
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- Read Survival Director Stephen Corry’s full exposé about Jimmy Nelson’s
work in US journal Truthout
(www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23986-turning-a-blind-eye-to-pure-old-vibrations)
- Jimmy Nelson’s exhibition at London’s Atlas Gallery
(http://www.atlasgallery.com/atlas.php?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=9fc6feead0-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-9fc6feead0-86614551)
opened on September 25, 2014

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Amazon Indian family makes first contact
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Korubo Indians contacted in the mid-1990s. Another Korubo family made first
contact earlier this month.
© Erling Soderstrom/Survival

A family of uncontacted Korubo Indians
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/uncontacted-brazil?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
has made contact with a settled indigenous community in the western
Brazilian Amazon.

The Brazilian government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI,
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/funai?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
announced that the group, formed of one man, one woman and four children,
contacted the neighboring Kanamari Indians earlier this month.

The Korubo family is extremely vulnerable to outside diseases which could
prove fatal for them as they lack immunity. They are currently being
monitored by a health team in the forest.

The reason for the Korubo’s move remains unclear. Another group of Korubo
Indians was contacted in 1996 by government agents,
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/korubocontact?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
after conflicts with non-indigenous society killed several of their
relatives. This group is now composed of 33 individuals.
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/6818?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
There are yet more Korubo who remain uncontacted.

The Korubo are hunter-gatherers and they depend on their land for their
survival. Their indigenous territory is home to the highest concentration of
uncontacted tribes in the world.

Earlier this year, another group of highly vulnerable uncontacted Indians
emerged
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10327?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
in the Brazilian Amazon near the border with Peru. They are believed to have
fled pressure from illegal loggers and drug traffickers on their land, and
report that many of their relatives were killed in violent attacks by
non-Indians.
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10361?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)

Uncontacted tribal peoples are the most vulnerable societies on the planet.
They face catastrophe unless their land is protected.

Survival has launched an urgent action
(http://www.survivalinternational.org/emails/uncontacted?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551)
calling for the protection of the lands and lives of uncontacted Amazon
Indians.

Read this online:
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10446?utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=f4061fc7bb-News_as_it_happens&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-f4061fc7bb-86614551