For tribes, for nature,
for all humanity

Survival International Annual Report 2017

We need Survival tocontinue fighting forour planet
Yanomami Brazil

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIESO B JECT S A ND PURPO SES
Survival International is the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights. We help tribal peoples defend
their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures. Our principal objects and purposesare:• to promote good race relations for the public benefit between indigenous and non-indigenous
peoples by endeavouring to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality, or ethnicor national origins.
• to relieve poverty malnutrition and ill health among indigenous peoples.
• to promote for the public benefit the human rights of indigenous peoples (as set out in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent United Nations conventions anddeclarations including ILO Conventions 107 and 169).
• to promote education and research into the history, institutions and ways of life of indigenous
peoples and to publish and disseminate the results of that research.
• to promote and support such other charitable purposes for public benefit pertaining to indigenous
peoples as the directors shall think fit.
A CT IVIT IES
In order to achieve these objectives, Survival:• works in partnership with tribal peoples, offering them a platform to address the world;• carries out research into tribal areas, particularly where the survival of tribal peoples is threatenedor where violations of their human rights are taking place;• uses this information to educate the public about tribal cultures, and to publicize the problems
which tribal peoples face;• makes representations to governments, companies and other institutions and individuals whose
activities may affect tribal peoples, and seeks to influence them into acting in tribal peoples’interests;• seeks to eliminate all discrimination and prejudice against tribal peoples, and promotes legislation
which protects their rights;• supports the activities of representative indigenous organizations and other organizations withsimilar aims;• supports appropriate projects in tribal communities.
PUB LIC B ENEFITThe Trustees of Survival International confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of
the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission guidelines on public benefit
and the need to provide an explanation of the achievements during the year under review.
All our activities focussed on defending the lives and protecting the lands of tribal peoples benefit
both specific peoples and the public in general. Tribal peoples number more than 150 million
individuals worldwide and add hugely to the diversity of humankind. We also believe that
campaigning to put tribal peoples – the best guardians of the natural world – at the forefront of theenvironmental movement benefits all humanity.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCEKEY CA MPA IGNS
“Uncontacted Tribes”
Uncontacted tribes are the most vulnerable peoples on the planet. We know very little about them.
But we do know there are more than a hundred around the world. And we know whole populations

are being wiped out by violence from outsiders who steal their land and resources, and by diseases
like flu and measles to which they have no resistance.
Survival is a world authority on uncontacted tribes and has been successfully campaigning for theirlands to be protected since 1969. Our campaign objectives are simple: Protect their lands and ensure
their right to remain uncontacted is respected. Only then will they, and the environments on which
they depend, continue to thrive.
Film
In 2017, we launched a new campaign film featuring Survival Ambassadors Sir Mark Rylance andGillian Anderson. This marked an exciting step forward as the film brought in many new supporters
and highlighted the desperate need and threats faced by many uncontacted tribespeople the world
over. Our PR team devised a strategy in which celebrity supporters shared the film with theirfollowers in order to reach new audiences, and promoted it to film festivals. Most importantly, thefilm received positive feedback from indigenous people themselves. At a time of crisis foruncontacted tribal peoples, particularly when budgets to protect tribal land have been cut in Brazil,
this positive feedback is crucial.
Amazon Uncontacted Frontier
The Amazon Uncontacted Frontier is an area straddling the Peru-Brazil border and is home to thelargest concentration of uncontacted tribal peoples in the world. It is therefore a vitally importantregion and, in 2017, we continued our efforts to draw attention to the plight of those threatened byminers, loggers and others seeking to impose unwanted contact.
In March, years of campaigning by Survival resulted in a hard-fought success. Pacific E&P, a
Canadian oil company, withdrew from the territory of an uncontacted tribe in Peru. This decisionmarked a huge victory for the region, for the Matsés and for Survival’s campaign. The decision
followed years of lobbying the Peruvian government, emails to the company’s CEO, and social
media activism, including a very successful “virtual protest” that resulted in 400 supporters leaving
negative comments and reviews on Pacific E&P’s Facebook wall.
In September, we received the terrible news that around ten uncontacted Indians, thought to be“Flecheiros” (the Arrow people) in the Vale do Javari territory in Western Brazil, were reportedly
murdered by gold miners. The Flecheiros were left vulnerable following government cuts to thefunding to protect their territory and the closure of several monitoring posts in the Vale do Javari.
Survival acted immediately to draw attention to the reported massacre and hold the Brazilian
government accountable. We lobbied the Brazilian government to do a full and speedy investigation
and worked hard to ensure the story made headlines around the world, in multiple languages. Our
press release caused a huge splash and as a result of our press team’s efforts, news of the brutal
and extremely violent attack was covered by dozens of top global media outlets. This kind of
publicity is a vital weapon in our fight to lobby Brazil to do more to protect uncontacted tribes. The
media attention added further pressure to the government, which closed down ten illegal mining
dredges and re-opened its monitoring posts. The publicity also educated people about the situation,in turn drawing further attention to our campaign.
Awá, Brazil
Years of research and campaigning by Survival for the eviction of loggers from the Awá’s territory
means that, in some regions, the Awá are faring much better than in previous years. Where their land
is protected, our monitoring shows that their situation has markedly improved. However,uncontacted tribal peoples remain at great risk, above all in the Arariboia territory, which iscompletely surrounded by deforestation and threatened from within by loggers. The Guajajara
Guardians, a group made up of members from the Guajajara tribe in Brazil, are working in this region
to protect their land and prevent the genocide of their uncontacted neighbors, the Awá. In August
they travelled to a nearby city to stage a protest for the very first time. The Guardians demanded
urgent help and Survival was able to secure international coverage of their protest and the essential
work they are doing. We lobbied the Brazilian government to support their efforts, arguing that the
Guajajara Guardians are the most effective at protecting their land from illegal loggers. We continued
to provide support through various means so that the Guardians can continue their vital work. In

addition, we released an email from the Guajajara Guardians themselves, asking supporters tocontact Brazil’s government and urge them to fund the Guardian’s tireless work. This was hugely
successful and resulted in thousands of email responses to the Brazilian authorities.
Ayoreo, Paraguay
The Ayoreo are the last uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon and their region is threatened by
the highest rate of deforestation in the world. After decades of fighting for their land, talks began in
March following a formal request from the Ayoreo tribe and local organization “GAT” to theInternational-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR). Overseen by a UN official,government representatives held monthly meetings with Ayoreo leaders. However, the landmark
talks failed to stop logging in the area. Six months after the talks began, the Ayoreo were still waiting
for the government to act to protect their lands. Survival investigators closely monitored the situationand put out a press release calling attention to the failure of the talks.
Kawahiva, Brazil
In 2017, Survival continued to pressure the Brazilian government to fulfill its duty to map out the landof the Kawahiva. Despite our success in 2016, whereby the government recognized the boundariesof the Kawahiva’s territory, their situation remains precarious. While their land still does not have fullindigenous territory status, the Kawahiva are vulnerable to contact from outsiders. This is one of themost violent regions of the Amazon, and so the longer this precarity continues, the greater the threat
from invasion and fires in the region.
In April, Survival investigators revealed a behind-the-scenes plot by local politicians to open up the
Kawahiva’s territory to road builders, loggers, ranchers and soya farmers. Councilors from Colniza,
the nearest municipality to the Kawahiva’s territory and one of the most violent places in the region,
met with the Ministry of Justice to lobby for the Rio Pardo indigenous territory to be reduced in size,a clear symptom of an anti-indigenous feeling among local authorities. Survival took immediate
action by lobbying the Ministry of Justice not to cave in to the pressure. In addition, we secured
significant media attention of the shocking situation. According to our contacts, this increase inpressure and public awareness has made a huge difference to the Kawahiva.
Jarawa, Andaman Islands
This year we took action by issuing press releases and lobbying the government to protect the rightsof the Jarawa, who are put at risk by an illegal road that cuts through their forest. We achieved
success by securing the opening of an alternative sea route to stop tourists needing to drive throughthe Jarawa’s reserve. Disappointingly, the government went back on its clear commitment to close
the road to tourists and has failed to advertise properly and push this alternative route. Nevertheless,we continued to lobby government and demanded it stop tourists from using the road.
We also lobbied the government over its failure to properly protect the Jarawa reserve frompoachers. Despite the existence of strict laws, poachers are repeatedly entering the reserve andendangering the survival of the Jarawa. Those caught are invariably released on bail and allowed toreoffend.
Uncontacted rights
Budget cuts to FUNAI, the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, threatened toseriously weaken the protection of uncontacted peoples’ land. We released several emails calling forour supporters to take action over the course of the year to fight against these cuts. Our campaign toprevent the budget from being slashed succeeded because, while the budget for FUNAI’s
uncontacted Indians department was still cut, thanks to Survival’s lobbying, protesting, and media
attention it was not reduced as much as initially proposed. In addition, we released appeals fromindigenous leaders themselves, including Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, which proved successful,giving them the chance to speak directly to supporters and fight for their land rights.
Survival also wrote to Claire Perry, Minister for Climate Change & Energy asking for details of
UK/German funding for the Acre and Mato Grosso regions to combat deforestation and raisingconcerns about the lack of protection of uncontacted tribes.

“Conservation”
Tribal peoples have been dependent on and managed their environments for millennia and evidence
proves that they are better at looking after their environment than anyone else. They are the best
conservationists and guardians of the natural world and as such we are working to ensure they are at
the forefront of the environmental movement.
But tribal peoples are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands in the name ofconservation and accused of “poaching” because they hunt to feed their families. They face arrestand beatings, torture and death, at the hands of anti-poaching squads funded by big Westernconservation organizations, while big game trophy hunters are encouraged. But targeting tribal
hunters diverts action away from tackling the true poachers – criminals conspiring with corrupt
officials. Targeting tribal hunters harms conservation.
Survival International is leading the fight against the abuse of tribal peoples in the name ofconservation: for tribes, for nature, for all humanity.
Congo Basin Tribes
Following the admission of Survival’s complaint to the Swiss National Contact Point under the OECD
Guidelines against WWF in 2016, the announcement that the complaint had been accepted in
January 2017 generated great interest and our press team secured significant coverage of thislandmark case. This was the first time a complaint had ever been admitted against an NGO,
demonstrating that industrial-scale charities like WWF can and should be held to the same standards
as multinational corporations under the OECD guidelines. Survival staff travelled to Switzerland toattend the mediation and to convince WWF to abide by its own indigenous rights policy. The
mediation ended with Survival withdrawing from the process due to WWF’s refusal to accept that the
Baka must consent to how conservation zones on their land are managed in future. However, theprocess was extremely valuable in setting a precedent for others to follow: that conservation
organizations can be held accountable for human rights abuses under the OECD guidelines. Survival
gained a highly useful insight into WWF’s policies and attitudes, and we continue to press theorganization to stop harming the Baka and to abide by the law and its own policy. Our investigators
submitted additional complaints to WWF through its own complaint mechanism, which yielded no
results. This proved that the mechanism is not fit for purpose.
Survival also uncovered that WWF had been quoting the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights ofindigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, as having praised its work in her report on conservationand indigenous rights. This was not the case and in November 2017, after Survival highlighted this,she issued a statement to this effect: “I would like to take this opportunity to clarify a statement in
my report which has been misused by the WWF in their defense of the criticisms against them intheir work in Cameroon… it is not acceptable that WWF used my report for such a purpose. I would
advise WWF to seriously look into the allegations and act upon them, instead of being defensive.”
Over the year we strived to increase publicity of the situation in the Congo Basin. We continued topressure WWF over its other wrongdoings, such as partnering with loggers and industries that
destroy the environment and its greatest allies, tribal peoples. In May, Survival awarded WWF the“Greenwashing of the Year” prize for partnering with seven logging companies in the Congo Basin,covering nearly 4 million hectares of forest belonging to the Baka and Bayaka “Pygmies”. We also
published a report entitled “WWF and the loggers,” which outlined the formerly untold history ofthese partnerships and detailed the accusations of illegal and unsustainable logging against thecompanies. In June, we published our exposé of how the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS),
based at the Bronx Zoo, is funding and therefore contributing to human rights abuses in the
Republic of Congo. To coincide with this report, we staged a “virtual rally”, encouraging supporters
to post negative reviews of WCS. This pushed their average rating down significantly and was a PR
disaster for conservation organizations more widely. Expanding our online presence, we published a
new webpage on the Congo Basin Tribes as part of our continuing efforts to raise awareness andeducate the public.
Exposing the crimes of green militarism

Over the past year we have continued our fight against militarized conservation by covering
important news and promoting greater visibility for the injustices faced by tribal peoples. We
supported a Batwa man in the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose 17-year-old son was killedby German-funded ecoguards. We helped him complain to WCS and the German government, whoboth support the guards. To lend his complaint additional weight, we were able to secure an
excellent article in the news magazine Der Spiegel, one of Europe’s largest magazines with a very
wide readership. In addition, we drew further attention to the case by writing to the German
government and meeting with German MPs. The case of the Batwa man and issues aroundconservation in the Congo Basin more generally were raised in the German parliament as a direct
result, which is a great step forward in getting governments to recognize the disastrous
consequences of militarized conservation policies.
The publication of our report, “How Will We Survive?” generated good media coverage and detailed
the widespread and systematic human rights abuses by wildlife guards in the Congo Basin. Thispublication brought together reports of abuse happening in the Congo Basin from 1989 until thepresent day into one place for the first time, and included research from independent experts andresearch specialists.
This year, our legal team actively engaged with UN officials to call attention to the human rights
abuses committed in the name of conservation. We used evidence collected by our researchers towrite to the UN Committee on the Convention Against Torture about the totally unacceptable use of
torture in the fight against poaching in Cameroon. We called on the UN Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to condemn shoot on sight policies that directly affecttribal peoples living in or adjacent to protected areas, in particular with regards to the situation at
Kaziranga, India, where forest officers can shoot on sight with impunity. Following an informal
meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, we wrote to him
about the extrajudicial killings that occur in the name of conservation. We met with a DFID ministerand raised our concerns about the impact of conservation on tribal peoples, including the situationof the Bushmen in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and tribal peoples in West Papua.
The publication of “The Big Conservation Lie” by Mordecai Ogada and John Mbaria proved a usefulcampaign tool. The book, by conservation experts, corroborates our message. It makes a powerfulargument against the militarized nature of conservation and argues for the consultation and inclusionof tribal peoples in developing conservation policy. We worked in partnership with Mordecai Ogada
to promote the book and drive increased sales, securing a review in CounterPunch magazine.
Best Conservationists
Over the course of the year, we continued to emphasize the fact that tribal peoples are the best
conservationists, and that ensuring their land rights are upheld not only protects the environment but
also guarantees their fundamental human rights. We presented the case at outreach events to awide range of audiences, from primary school children to postgraduate students. In November,
Survival called for greater recognition of the crucial role tribal peoples play in protecting theenvironment from world leaders, ahead of COP23 Climate Change Conference in Bonn. We closely
followed and reported on the case of an elderly Batwa man in Uganda, who was imprisoned for
hunting a small antelope in a protected area. He was later released after serving his sentence. Our
campaign also attracted the support of high profile figures and we put significant effort into building
our online presence. We published new webpages on the campaign cases, providing a muchneeded source of information to consolidate our findings in an accessible way for the public.
Bushmen, Central Kalahari Game Reserve
This year, more Bushmen exercised their right to return to their ancestral lands in the Central
Kalahari Game Reserve. Our researchers continued to monitor their situation closely and observed amarked improvement from several years ago, as the government is now providing some basic
services within the reserve.
Tiger reserves, India
Over the past year we continued our fight against the illegal evictions of tribal communities fromprotected areas across India. Survival increased visibility for individual cases and continued to build

on and expand the reporting of important news stories. For example, we covered and closely
monitored the threatened eviction of the Chenchu tribe in Amrabad Tiger Reserve, where uranium
exploration was approved, and secured ongoing coverage of the situation in Kaziranga Tiger
Reserve. We persistently pushed these issues and staged a protest outside Berlin’s Indian Embassy.
Prompted by our campaign, the BBC did its own in-depth investigation into shoot on sight in
Kaziranga. Survival was interviewed for the report’s film, and following its release the BBC werebanned from entering the reserves. The film generated intense debate and drew attention to theissue, helping to increase local victims’ confidence to speak out against the abuses they’ve faced.
Following the controversy surrounding the documentary on Kaziranga, the acting park director ofCorbett Tiger Reserve, who ordered shoot on sight, was removed from his post. Since all of theattention that Survival, along with the BBC, has drawn to shoot on sight policies in Kaziranga, wehave observed that the number of people being killed has drastically reduced.
The UK and Italian office organized the visit of Pranab Doley, a tribal activist from Kaziranga. We
arranged his participation in various prestigious events in Italy, which provided additional visibility forthe campaign. Expanding our online presence, we created a new webpage about tiger reserves,which included an interactive map showing where tribes are facing illegal evictions. This involved
collecting evidence from more than 37 tiger reserves, covering two thirds of the total number of tiger
reserves in India. Amitav Ghosh, the acclaimed Indian novelist, publicly supported our campaign andsigned the 5 principles petition. We launched a tourism boycott of Kaziranga, before widening theboycott out to all tiger reserves in November, which made waves across the world.
We lobbied hard against the eviction of specific villages and released a number of tribal voice videos
allowing tribal people to both explain how they have been threatened and harassed into “agreeing”
to leave their forests and how they are the best conservationists.
Other Cases
Land theft is the biggest problem tribal peoples face. Around the world, industrialized society isstealing tribal lands in the pursuit of profit. This is a continuation of the invasion and genocide whichcharacterized the European colonization of the Americas and Australia. But for tribal peoples, land islife: It fulfils all their material and spiritual needs and is also the foundation of tribal peoples’ identity
and sense of belonging. The theft of tribal land destroys self-sufficient peoples and their diverse waysof life. It causes disease, destitution and suicide.
The key to tribal peoples’ survival and prosperity is to ensure their land remains under their control.
We are doing everything we can to secure it for them.
Worsening situation for indigenous peoples in Brazil
The situation in Brazil is perhaps the worst for a generation, with new proposed laws threatening toseriously undermine tribal peoples’ land rights and ways of life. The proposed laws, of which PEC
215 is one, will affect all tribes in Brazil. The changes threaten to block the protection of theirterritories and prevent the recognition of future land demarcation. The situation there is dire, andaccording to our contacts on the ground, international attention is the only way to make change.
Local experts, lawyers and indigenous peoples themselves have informed us that draft bills would
have easily been passed and the situation would be much worse if it weren’t for Survival’s work
opposing the attempted theft of tribal land. We continue to fight against the anti-indigenous
agribusiness lobby and their ongoing efforts to reduce the protection of indigenous land to make iteasier to build dams, mines and military base camps and to take over indigenous lands for cattle
ranching, agriculture and logging.
Day of the Indian
Survival took advantage of the publicity around Brazil’s Day of the Indian by staging a global demo
on 19 April (national Indian day in Brazil) with Guarani leader, Ládio Veron, in attendance. The demo
took place outside the Brazilian Embassy in London, while other Survival offices organized protests
and letter hand-ins in their countries. We urged social media followers from around the world to takephotos of themselves with our placards and send in their pictures. Many did so, adding further

pressure to Brazil’s government to end the attack on indigenous rights and protect tribal peoples’
lands.
Dongria Kondh, India
Survival continued the fight against the Odisha state government’s increasing police harassment andintimidation of the Dongria Kondh. We publicized their situation through various actions, including apress release and email to supporters calling for urgent action. We received the sad news that a
prominent Dongria leader, Bari Pidikaka, died while in police custody. Bari featured in our 2009
‘Mine’ film, in which he says: “We need people from outside to stand with us. Then we have to fight.
Then we can survive. And we can be in charge of our territory.”
Guarani, Brazil
This year Survival continued to support the Guarani through various means. At the beginning of theyear, we received a message from a community leader, thanking Survival for speaking out against
the injustices they face and looking out for the Guarani’s wellbeing. In the face of increased
harassment and political threats, the Guarani decided to come out in force with a series of meetings,
documents and Tribal Voice videos. We supported a gathering by Guarani women in September inorder to pressure the government over land rights. In December, we publicized the sad news that
Creuza Guarani was found dead, likely murdered, on the side of the highway. She refused to budge
from the reoccupied land despite many death threats.
T RIB A L VO ICE
Survival’s Tribal Voice project gives remote tribes communications technology so they can speak out
against the governments and multinationals and others that are trying to silence them.
We achieved our target of increasing the presence of our “tribal voice” project in our education andawareness materials and publicity with quotes and opinions from tribal people featured ever more
prominently across our communications. We created and disseminated a publicity video toindigenous and tribal audiences encouraging them to send us their video clips and explaining thatthe project can help give them a platform to tell their stories in their own words and have their voices
heard around the world. Over the year we released dozens of new videos by tribal peoples, sharing
them on our website, on social media and directly with our supporters. For the first time, we featured
tribal voice videos in emails calling for urgent action from supporters, including videos from the
Guajajara Guardians, who tell us they are glad of the opportunity to speak directly to supporters. We
received our first ever video from the Awá, who spoke about the difficulties the tribe are facing asillegal fishermen and hunters invade their land. Our video of Beto Marubo was the first ever clip
recorded on an uncontacted tribes monitoring expedition, deep in the Amazon. The video was ahuge success on social media and received over 40,000 views in Portuguese. Beto and his people
sent us this message: “Wow, so many people have seen the video. This is really important for us. It
means [news of] the situation doesn’t just stay here, stuck in the Javari.”
MEDIA
The unprecedented decision by Swiss authorities to accept Survival’s complaint that WWF had
violated the OECD Guidelines on Multinational Enterprises received very widespread media
attention. Survival ensured that the case was covered in many print and online publications both in
the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on the USA.
Articles written by Survival staff were published across a wide variety of online and print magazines,
especially CounterPunch, TruthOut and Alternet based in the US. We also secured the publication ofarticles written by our prominent Ambassadors such as actors Gillian Anderson and Sir Mark
Rylance.
Survival’s exposé of the shoot on sight policy operating in Kaziranga National Park in India, which
has led to dozens of deaths, received a major boost after the BBC picked up the story and did its
own in-depth report. The revelations caused a furore in India, with long-running coverage across allsectors of the press. The BBC was subsequently banned from filming in tiger reserves in the country
for five years, a measure of the authorities’ sensitivity to the issue. There was a huge amount of
online discussion in the conservation community about the controversy – this hopefully represents afirst step towards a wider acceptance among conservationists that extrajudicial killings have noplace in modern conservation practice.
A protest by our German office outside the Indian embassy in Berlin, to coincide with the visit ofIndia’s Prime Minister, made front page news in The Times of India, the country’s largest newspaper.
We repeatedly targeted the online conservation media as part of our Tribal Conservationists
campaign, with considerable success – many leading publications such as Mongabay, The Ecologist
and Sierra Club magazine frequently included our point of view in their reports.
We worked hard to ensure that our campaign for the rights of uncontacted tribes to be respected
was covered internationally. Two cases in particular – the Sentinelese of the Andaman Sea, and theuncontacted tribes of Brazil’s Javari Valley – gained widespread global coverage as a result of ourpress team’s efforts. In the latter case, horrific reports of a massacre of up to ten members of one
tribe in the region made headlines around the world. This kind of publicity was a vital tool inpressuring the Brazilian authorities to mount a proper investigation.
We ran our photo competition again this year, inviting the public to contribute to the images in ourannual calendar. Once again, we secured wide coverage of the competition in the photographicpress.
EDUCA T IO N
In recognition of the importance of educating new audiences about the threats faced by tribal
peoples, in 2017 we promoted the uncontacted tribes campaign at nine events in the Los Angeles
and Bay areas of California. Events included a talk at the UCLA Hammer Museum, several college
courses, and an intimate talk at Google. Particularly successful was an event at Berkeley University,where approximately 140 students attended a seminar led by Survival. They demonstrated highlevels of engagement with the issues. At all events, we distributed brochures and circulated sheets
to encourage the public to sign up to receive email updates, which resulted in many new
subscribers. These events enabled us to connect with hundreds of new potential supporters andspread the word about the threats faced by uncontacted peoples.
We gave a talk at the King Alfred School in London about the importance of Survival’s work andpresented the case for tribal peoples as the best conservationists at a range of outreach events,from postgraduate students to primary school children. A Survival researcher also gave a seminar forthe module “Reverse Anthropology” at the Sociology Department at Essex University and anothersenior researcher was invited to speak about uncontacted tribes at a TEDx event.
SUPPO RT ERSSurvival is a global movement which draws its campaigning strength from our many thousands ofsupporters. We depend on them. From donating to our appeals, running fundraising campaigns, andbuying from our catalogue to sending lobbying emails, spreading the word on social media andattending protests, their money, energy and enthusiasm is what enables us to fight one of the mosturgent and horrific humanitarian crises of our time. Here are just some examples of the ways inwhich our incredible supporters helped out in 2017:
Fundraising Action
Supporter Jim held a fundraising action with the Northern Drum Shamanic Centre, which raised over
£1,400. Jim also held remote healing sessions through Healing Works, raising an additional £460.
Snowdonia Marathon
Supporter Serinde raised over £560 by running the Snowdonia Marathon in support of Survival.
Serinde said, “It was my absolute pleasure to raise money for Survival International, and it was a big

support for me to keep training as well knowing that it would help a good cause. You do suchimportant work to support – thank you very much.”Rainforest Fair
44 dedicated pupils from Year 3 of the King Alfred School in London held their annual Rainforest Fair
and raised over £715 for tribal peoples’ rights.
Bristol Supporter Group
Long-term supporter Tej helps to run the Bristol Supporter Group, who partner with various eventsand festivals. They help to spread awareness and raise funds, and this year raised over £435.
Linacre College
Students at Linacre College held a yearlong fundraising initiative led by Ryan, with proceeds going toSurvival. The students displayed posters and leaflets around the college and raised over £850.
A more detailed account of the work undertaken worldwide by Survival International can be found atwww.survivalinternational.org.

FINANCES
Survival rejects government funding. We won’t compromise our independence or our integrity. We’re
proud of all we achieve on such a limited budget. By relying on donations from the general public,
we also keep our fundraising costs extremely low. In 2017, for every £1 donated, we spent only 1.5p
to raise the next £1.

Trustees’ Statement
This summary financial information is extracted from the full unqualified audited group accounts
approved by the Trustees on 15 May 2018 and subsequently submitted to the Charity Commission
and to Companies House. They may not contain sufficient information to allow a full understandingof the financial affairs of the charity. For further information regarding the full accounts, the Auditors’
Report on those accounts and the Trustees’ Annual Report should be consulted; copies of these canbe obtained from 6 Charterhouse Buildings, London, EC1M 7ET.
Signed on behalf of the Trustees. M. Davis, Treasurer, 15 May 2018.

SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR 2017
2017£
861,625
1,269,246
52,7392,183,610

2016£
928,057
172,81449,5451,150,416

Project, Publication and Education
Fundraising and Publicity
Governance932,146
109,546
17,685
1,059,377

916,809106,278
18,1891,041,276

Net Incoming Resources
Investments & Exchange

1,124,233
26,6211,150,854

109,140
309,521418,661

2017
£

2016
£

775,828
1,635,633
3,432,755
5,844,216

790,172
2,455,088
1,451,518
4,696,778

125,963

129,379

INCOMING RESOURCES
Donations & Fundraising
Legacies
Investments & Other Income

RESOURCES EXPENDED

NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDSASSETS & LIABILITIES AT 31 DEC 2017
ASSETS
Tangible Fixed Assets
Investments
Current Assets

LIABILITIESAmounts falling due within one year