In the Congo Basin, the Baka, Bayaka and dozens of other rainforest peoples are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands in the name of conservation. "Their health is plummeting as a result.":https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11882 The big conservation organizations that support these conservation projects, like the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), refuse to abide by basic international standards and secure their consent.

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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is one of the world's oldest conservation organizations and is based at the Bronx Zoo, is complicit in the abuse of Bayaka "Pygmies" in the Republic of Congo. WCS helped create and now manages a national park on the Bayaka's ancestral homelands. Inside and outside the park, it funds and equips violent anti-poaching squads. The Bayaka are being illegally evicted from their forest homes and face harassment, arrest, beatings and even torture at the hands of these squads. Despite being aware of the abuse for over 18 years, WCS has taken no effective action to stop it.

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Some of the world's largest logging groups are destroying the Baka's ancestral forests in the Congo Basin. This Baka man lives near logging concessions run by the French giant Rougier, one of the World Wildlife Fund's main partners. Despite claiming it never partners with logging companies without the Baka's consent, it has done precisely that for over 15 years.

Baka "Pygmies" are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands in the Cameroon and Congo. This man explains the importance of the forest to Baka life, and recounts how a young girl and elderly man died when their community was attacked by an anti-poaching squad funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

A Baka father talks about how an anti-poaching squad beat his young daughter, who was just 10 years old, in 2016. Djami's community are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands to make way for a national park, and face arrest and beatings, torture and death at the hands of these squads, which are supported by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). He sadly died shortly after this video was taken.

A Baka man, interviewed in 2015, reports abuse by Cameroonian wildlife guard Mpaé Désiré. Mpaé Désiré was arrested in 2016 on suspicion of involvement in the illegal wildlife trade. The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has funded wildlife guards in this region since at least 2000, despite frequent reports of abuse.

*An elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by French billionaire Benjamin de Rothschild has been implicated in human rights abuses – including illegal evictions and torture – against local Baka “Pygmies” and their neighbors.* *"Click here to find out more and take action.":http://www.survivalinternational.org/emails/baka-trophy-hunting* This is not an isolated incident. Across Africa, tribal people are accused of “poaching” because they hunt to feed their families. And they face arrest and beatings, torture and death, while big game trophy hunters are encouraged. Survival International is leading the fight against these abuses.

Oscar-winning actor & Survival Ambassador Mark Rylance makes an urgent appeal for Survival International.

Adalto Guarani asks people around the world to help stop plans which could destroy Brazilian Indians' lands and lives. "*Take action now!*":http://www.survivalinternational.org/emails/reject-pec215

Pire'i Awá describes life for his people in the north-eastern Amazon rainforest, after Survival's global campaign pushed Brazil to evict thousands of loggers from one of their territories. The "Awá still need your help":http://www.survivalinternational.org/awa to ensure that *all* their land is free of loggers, and that they are kept out for good.

In southeast Cameroon, Baka and their neighbors continue to be illegally evicted in the name of conservation, most recently for a game reserve set up last year with the support of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) In these latest video testimonies, Baka men and women reveal the violence they have suffered at the hands of anti-poaching militias backed by WWF. This debunks WWF's claims that the situation seems to have improved. Other victims have written open letters to protest at their unfair treatment.

In the Brazilian Amazon, a tiny group of uncontacted Indians teeters on the brink of extinction. Survival's global campaign is pushing Brazil's government to protect their land – the only way they can survive. This film, narrated by Mark Rylance, contains unique footage of the Kawahiva filmed by government agents in 2011, during a chance encounter with the Indians. "Send an email":http://www.survivalinternational.org/emails/kawahiva urging Brazil's Indigenous Affairs Department FUNAI to physically map out and protect the Kawahiva’s land, to give them a future.

Find out why Tesia cares so much about stopping the conservation con, and what she did to launch the movement. For tribes, for nature, for all our humanity.

Soon after first contact, Irahoa Awá recounts his life on the run in the forest.

Tribal Voice is a project by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights. Governments and multinationals are trying to silence tribal peoples. They brutalize and murder them, and they steal their lands. They call them backward and primitive – but they’re not. Tribal peoples are just like us. They, too, are concerned about their quality of life and their children’s futures. Their understanding of the world is as astute as anyone’s and they have perceptive things to say about almost every aspect of life today. That’s why we’re giving tribes communications technology so they can speak to the world in real time. It’s time to listen.

Tribal Voice is a project by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights. Governments and multinationals are trying to silence tribal peoples. They brutalize and murder them, and they steal their lands. They call them backward and primitive – but they’re not. Tribal peoples are just like us. They, too, are concerned about their quality of life and their children’s futures. Their understanding of the world is as astute as anyone’s and they have perceptive things to say about almost every aspect of life today. That’s why we’re giving tribes communications technology so they can speak to the world in real time. It’s time to listen.

In this film, recorded in November 2014, Baka from Ndongo, a village where WWF has a regional base, call upon WWF to stop funding the anti-poaching squads that have persecuted them for years. Many Baka refer to both WWF and the anti-poaching squads it funds as “dobi-dobi” or 'dobi-dobiyu' (WWF). Here, they are referring to WWF itself.

Kwegu tribespeople in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley report in 2015 that they are starving as a result of being forced from their land and of the irrigated plantations that are drying up the river on which they depend. These interviews were filmed in 2012, during the clearing of their land for a government sugar plantation.