For tribes, for nature,
for all humanity

Survival International Annual Report 2020

When Survival
speaks out it gives us
strength
JK Thimma Jenu Kuruba leader, India

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OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIESOBJECTS AND PURPOSES
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 ethnic or
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 and declarations
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.
ACTIVITIESIn 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 threatened orwhere 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.
PUBLIC BENEFITThe 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 andthe 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.

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic has posed a huge threat to the survival of tribal peoples around the world.
Survival has worked hard to raise awareness of the risk that Covid-19 represents to tribal peoples
globally, from Indonesia to the Amazon. At the beginning of the pandemic, Survival sent letters to all
governments in Latin America warning them about the high susceptibility of indigenous peoples tothe coronavirus, especially uncontacted and recently-contacted peoples. We boosted our
campaigning against the constant invasions of tribal peoples’ territories, especially uncontacted
lands, and supported indigenous peoples’ own initiatives to protect their territories and shieldthemselves from the disease. We also increased our production of Tribal Voice videos highlighting
the issue.
Throughout the year we released a vast quantity of material on social media highlighting the
pandemic’s devastating impact on tribal peoples. We liaised with a large number of journalists
covering this issue, and linked Covid-19’s spread through indigenous communities in Brazil to the
Bolsonaro government’s all-out assault on indigenous rights.
In August we publicized the news that the disease had reached the Great Andamanese in the
Andaman Islands, India, which resulted in more than 40 news reports around the world and drewhuge international attention to the potential risk to tribal peoples. Following the media attention
generated by our communications efforts, India’s National Commission for Scheduled Tribes put
pressure on the Andaman authorities to ensure the safety of the tribes in the islands.
The advent of Covid-19 has led to new narratives concerning the “risks” supposedly posed byhunted meat (usually labelled “bushmeat” when it applies to the Global South) – some conservation
organizations have asserted, despite a lack of evidence, that new diseases that could affect people
are more likely to arise through the consumption of such meat. This ties in to a narrative in which“nature” and “people” are separate and should be kept apart – a key principle behind “fortressconservation,” which ignores the fact that almost all landscapes have in fact been inhabited andshaped by people for millennia. Calls by some conservationists for a total ban on the consumption of
hunted meat pose a threat to tribal peoples’ self-sufficiency and livelihoods. Survival challenged thisdangerous argument.
A Global Movement
Much of the world’s activities moved online in 2020 in response to the pandemic, and Survival
responded in kind. Our work was already global in nature, with supporters in more than 100 countries
actively engaged in our campaigns.
Our Factory Schools campaign has resonated with indigenous activists and educators in North
America. Survival hosted several events that brought activists and indigenous people from India andNorth America together on a shared platform, in the fight for indigenous rights.
Equally, the similarities between the attacks on indigenous peoples’ rights led by Brazil’s President
Bolsonaro and India’s Prime Minister Modi demonstrated once again that the indigenous struggle isshared by tribes on a global scale. In response, Survival created and supported a network ofsolidarity between indigenous communities in Brazil and India. Bolsonaro’s visit to India in January,
where he was Modi's guest of honor at the India Republic Day celebrations, gave Survival an
opportunity to facilitate these connections between indigenous communities in both countries.
Indigenous people in India and Brazil sent one another messages of solidarity. This included a Tribal
Voice video from the Guajajara people of Brazil and a statement from Jacinta Kerketta, a poet fromthe Oraon Adivasi Community. Kerketta said: “I send my love and salute to the struggle of the tribesof the Amazon rainforest from here. Our languages may be different but our feelings are one, our3Survival International

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struggle is one. And we are also connected with their struggles. When fascist forces all over the world
are coming together on one platform, it is necessary that in different countries, people fighting
for their existence should come together on one platform too.”WebsiteSurvival’s website has expanded, and now has Hindi and Odia language versions, to increase our
support-base in India.
In May, we co-hosted a unique online showing of The Encounter, an award-winning piece of
immersive theatre, on our website. Based on the book Amazon Dreaming about an encounter with
the Matsés tribe in Peru, and created by Survival’s Ambassador Simon McBurney and theatrecompany Complicité, it drove hundreds of people to our site. We also participated in an online Q and
A on Indigenous Cultures: Representation and Mis-Representation prompted by the show.
In 2020, our website was a crucial hub for building awareness of, and support for, our campaigns.
Survival’s website has expanded with new webpages to engage our audience. The new Big Green
Lie webpage explains this new campaign for a lay audience. Our new webpage about climate change
has drawn hundreds of people to Survival online, and helped engage with climate activists about the
Big Green Lie campaign. We also published a new background briefing on evangelical missionaries,
as Bolsonaro’s government is closely aligned with the evangelical movement in Brazil, and backs
their desire to open up uncontacted tribes’ territories and make illegal contact with these highly
vulnerable peoples.
KEY CAMPAIGNS“Uncontacted Tribes”
There are more than a hundred uncontacted tribes around the world today. They are a vitally
important part of humankind’s diversity, but they face catastrophe unless their land is protected.
We're doing everything we can to secure their land for them, and to let them live. Where their land
rights are respected, uncontacted tribes thrive.
Right now, whole populations are being wiped out by violence from outsiders who steal their land andresources, or by diseases like flu and measles to which they have no resistance. This year, Covid-19
has posed a new lethal threat to their survival.
Survival is a world authority on uncontacted tribes and has been successfully campaigning for theirlands to be protected since 1969.
Uncontacted tribes of Brazil
At the start of 2020, Ricardo Lopes Dias, an evangelical missionary associated with thefundamentalist New Tribes Mission, was appointed as head of the uncontacted Indians department
of Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Agency (FUNAI). It was described by our researchers as “like putting a
fox in charge of the hen house.” After 10 months of campaigning round the clock alongside
indigenous organizations in Brazil, Lopes Dias was removed from office – a major success for all
uncontacted tribes in Brazil and beyond.
#MinersOutCovidOut – Yanomami campaign in Brazil
In 2020, Covid-19 overwhelmed Brazil. Survival and several Brazilian and international organizations
teamed up with the Yanomami and Ye’kwana peoples of northern Brazil on the #MinersOutCovidOut
campaign to prevent the genocide of their peoples. The campaign had as its aim the removal of
20,000 illegal miners from the Yanomami territory. The miners not only destroy large areas of forestand pollute rivers with deadly mercury, they also spread deadly diseases such as malaria – and in the4Survival International

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midst of the Covid-19 pandemic are the most likely explanation for the spread of the virus in thisarea.
Survival and a group of indigenous and non-indigenous organizations wrote to various UN experts todenounce the critical situation, and Survival participated in a meeting with the UN expert on toxic
waste, who highlighted the Yanomami case in his report. We also lobbied the Inter-American Human
Rights Commission, which issued Brazil with a request for precautionary measures to halt the mining
invasion.
The campaign mobilized more than 430,000 people worldwide to take action, including manycelebrities. Spokesperson Mauricio Ye’kwana gave a speech at the UN, whilst in December,
Yanomami leader Dario Yanomami handed in the 439,441 signature petition to Congress in Brasilia.
The petition hand-in was marked by projecting the campaign message, and paintings of Yanomami
spirits, on to the Congress building – a historic first. Survival will continue to lobby for the removal ofillegal miners in 2021, alongside the Yanomami and Ye’kwana organization Hutukara.
Uncontacted tribes of Peru
It has been an especially difficult year for the tribal peoples of Peru because of the huge impact of
Covid-19 in their territories, together with political instability and consequent social protests. The
number of invaders in indigenous lands increased dramatically over the year; meanwhile, thegovernment continued to grant licenses to extractive corporations, allowing them to operate in tribal
territories.
Survival strengthened relations with indigenous organizations in Peru. We collaborated with them toput pressure on the Peruvian state to urgently finalize the creation of five Indigenous Reserves foruncontacted tribes (which have been pending completion for decades), grant them permanent
protection, and immediately expel all extractive companies from these territories, which
includes stopping all oil and gas extraction. This campaign will continue to build strength in 2021.
Uncontacted tribes of Paraguay
The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode are the only uncontacted tribe in South America living outside theAmazon. In 2020, as well as Covid-19, fires and deforestation also threatened their survival(Paraguay's Chaco has suffered the fastest deforestation rate in the world). Survival’s investigators
monitored the situation closely.
Survival has campaigned for the Ayoreo’s land claim for more than 25 years, and while a part of theirland has been protected, the uncontacted Ayoreo-Totobiegosode won’t survive unless theirremaining forest is recognized and protected. Survival has accompanied and supported the AyoreoTotobiegosode in the complex legal process to demarcate the rest of their land, and worked with
their legal advisors to begin taking further steps. We also pressured the government to abide by its
legal obligations to finish the land titling process.
Uncontacted tribes of Colombia
Survival has amplified the issues that indigenous peoples are facing in Colombia in 2020. In press
interviews and on our social media platforms, we have publicly denounced the anti-indigenous
policies of President Duque and the high rate of murders of indigenous people in the country. Our
campaigners and consultants have collaborated in livestreams with Colombian tribes, indigenous
individuals and non-indigenous activists, to raise awareness and amplify indigenous voices.

“Stop Brazil’s Genocide”
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open up indigenous territories to agribusiness, mining and other “development.” Without the national
and international pressure, many of Bolsonaro’s genocidal proposals would undoubtedly have been
passed.
In response to Bolsonaro's genocidal attacks, we worked hard to grow Survival Brazil’s profile bothnationally and internationally and to engage our supporters around the world in non-stop actions tocombat the onslaught. We brought maximum attention to Bolsonaro’s threats and increased thepressure to stop them.
In February we hosted some of the Amazon’s most prominent indigenous leaders – Davi Kopenawa
Yanomami, Raoni Metuktire, Brazil’s first indigenous Congresswoman Joenia Wapichana, Mayra
Wapichana, Megaron Txucarramae, Dario Yanomami and Bepro Metuktire. Besides securing media
coverage, the group handed in a joint letter to 10 Downing Street. In it they called on the UK
government to use its hosting of the UN Climate Conference to “put tribal peoples centre stage andrecognise our key role in conserving some of the most biodiverse and threatened regions of the world
for the benefit of humanity.” They also denounced President Bolsonaro’s plan to open up indigenous
territories to mining. The indigenous leaders and a Survival researcher spoke at an international
conference on the Amazon held at the University of Oxford.
Amazon Fires
As in 2019, Survival fought alongside indigenous peoples against the government inaction anddeliberate policy that result in fires destroying vast swathes of Amazon rainforest. Our main focus
was to push the story hard, securing media coverage around the world about the threat the fires poseto indigenous peoples, especially uncontacted tribes – the most vulnerable peoples on the planet.
We also ensured that the Tribal Voice was at the forefront, as any discussion of the fires without
mentioning the forest’s best guardians – indigenous peoples – is dangerously incomplete. The Tribal
Voice videos we gathered helped spread indigenous people’s views around the world. These Tribal
Voice videos made up part of our activist pack that we provided for supporters.
Another part of our crucial work during the Amazon fires was our direct support to the Guardians of
the Amazon, including help for transport, and communications systems. These are invaluable
provisions for their fight to protect their forest and the forest of their uncontacted neighbors.
Throughout the fire season, our researchers liaised with the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights and kept them informed of the threat the fires pose to uncontacted tribes, including the Awá –Earth’s most threatened tribe.
Conservation
Tribal peoples have been dependent on and managed their environments for millennia. 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. With eco-fascist narratives on the rise, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic andmeasures to combat climate change, and with a plan to turn 30% of the Earth’s surface into
“protected areas,” the conservation industry poses an ever greater threat to tribal peoples’ survival.
Survival International is leading the fight against the abuse of tribal peoples in the name ofconservation: for tribes, for nature, for all humanity.
Decolonize Conservation
Survival’s Decolonize Conservation campaign is challenging the whole narrative of the conservationindustry, changing minds, influencing policy, denouncing human rights abuses, and putting the big
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A major achievement for the campaign came in September, when the US government halted morethan $12 million of funding to WWF, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other conservation
NGOs due to human rights abuses linked to their work. Furthermore, the US authorities decided tohalt future funding for relocations of tribal peoples from their land in the name of conservation.
Our supporter action was crucial to this success. The official memo relating to the decision refers toseveral letters and reports received from Survival; it adds that the Department received "thousands ofemails” from Survival supporters pressing for financial aid to be withdrawn from conservation
projects where abuses were happening.
Earlier in the year, the EU suspended its funding for the Messok Dja project in the Republic of Congo,
whilst the UNDP scrapped its own support for the project following Survival’s campaign. The entire
project has been shown to be a gross abuse of the Baka people’s rights, and was defined byobservers as a “human rights disaster.” These successes – achieved in large part through the effortsof Survival’s supporters, who sent thousands of emails over two years to the project’s funders – werecovered by major media outlets, with The Guardian newspaper publishing an article about the UNDP
report that revealed terrible human rights abuses by park rangers funded by WWF. Many otherleading newspapers, such as Le Monde, also covered the story.
WWF finally published the report of an “independent panel" it set up to investigate the many abuses
uncovered by the Buzzfeed series of exposés. The report confirmed much of what Survival has been
saying for many years, notably that senior WWF staff were aware of serious human rights abuses but
continued to fund and support guards who were committing these violations.
For the first time in history, members of the European Parliament invited indigenous and tribal people
to speak at an online event about conservation. Survival was instrumental in setting up this event andensuring that the voices of tribal people were heard by MEPs in the European Parliament. We
published a press release to draw attention to it and invite people to register. One of our consultants,
Dr. Mordecai Ogada, was interviewed on the BBC World Service Newsday programme before theconference. On social media we shared the livestream on our Facebook page, and tweeted
frequently throughout the day, calling attention to indigenous and local contributions.
Survival also pushed to have the Jenu Kuruba’s voices heard by the US government. Opposing
attempts to remove them from their ancestral land, the Jenu Kuruba – a tribe in Karnataka, India,
renowned for their honey-collecting – wrote to the US government urging them to stop funding a
conservation project that could lead to their eviction. The letter was sent to US government officials
and WCS more than twenty times without response, and because it was publicized on social media,
thousands of Survival supporters wrote urging the government to listen to the Jenu Kuruba.
A crucial part of our work around conservation in India is against illegal tribal evictions. In 2020, we
created and distributed podcasts to inform tribal people living in tiger reserves about their rights,
under Indian law, to stay in their forests, even in tiger reserves. We also shared stories of hope fromthose who have successfully fought for these rights. We continue to support communities to get theirforest rights recognized, as this is their best defence against evictions, whilst recognizing theirright to protect and manage their own forests.
Big Green Lie
Survival launched a new campaign, the #BigGreenLie, to stop plans to turn 30% of the world’s
surface into protected areas, a proposal being pushed by all the big conservation organizations andmany world leaders. If passed, this would lead to severe human rights violations, cause irreversible
harm for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, including tribal peoples, and do nothing toprevent loss of forests and other habitats. Our campaigners met with Members of Parliament andCongressmen and women from Germany, France, the EU and USA to discuss the proposal andexplain its profound flaws. Our lobbying activities were instrumental in getting governments toquestion the implications of the 30% proposal.

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With our new urgent action and a Big Green Lie Activist Kit being shared on social media, we havealready gathered over a thousand signatures in support of our campaign, and more than 200
organizations and experts have signed our official statement against the 30% proposal. Because of
our campaign, other organizations that had originally been in favour of the proposal have now
expressed their concerns, saying that indigenous peoples must have their land rights recognized first
if the 30% land protection plan is to go ahead.
Climate change
We produced a new webpage on climate change to expose how false solutions to climate changesuch as carbon offsetting are harming tribal peoples. As well as engaging with climate activists andpushing them to decolonize the climate change movement, our Director Stephen Corry wrote various
articles on the subject. We also took part in an online discussion with Extinction Rebellion.
Factory Schools
Survival believes that tribal and indigenous peoples’ education must be under their control. It must be
rooted in the people’s own land, language and culture giving children both a sound education and –vitally – pride in themselves and their people.
However, around two million tribal children today are being taught to feel ashamed of who they are
and where they come from in Factory Schools. At these schools, many tribal children are forced tochange religion and are subject to appalling racism from those in charge. Devastatingly, they often
suffer physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Factory Schools are part of a deliberate, far-reachingpolicy by governments to force tribal people into the mainstream society by erasing indigenous
identity and stealing tribal lands.
Similar schools existed for decades in Australia, the U.S. and Canada. The suffering they inflicted has
carried down through generations and causes ongoing trauma today to survivors and theirdescendants. Survival International is exposing the existence and impacts of Factory Schools andcampaigning for an end to the policies behind them.
Survival supported the successful demand from Adivasis, activists and academics for theInternational Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences to change the venue of the 2023
World Congress of Anthropology, which was originally to be held at the world’s largest Factory
School – the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha, India. This put a spotlight on
Adivasi schooling issues, leading to several important media articles.
Survival worked to bring tribal and indigenous people together in solidarity against Factory Schools.
We organized several Instagram and Facebook live events to give a platform to activists across theworld to discuss the right to self-determination and tribal education within their own communities. We
also brought speakers from North America, with lived experience of similar schooling and who are
now educating their people in Indigenous-led schools, together with tribal people currently resisting
Factory Schooling. These events brought crucial attention to the continued existence of theseschools and their impacts on children, families and tribal peoples.
Survival staff were invited to speak at the Oxford University Education Department annual
conference, where we were able to highlight the issue of Factory Schools and Indigenous education.
Our Factory Schools materials are now being used for teaching at universities in the UK, as well as inindigenous language classes in India. The campaign has inspired the creation of a Stop Factory
Schools Network in India, and we have provided materials and advice to communities establishing
their own community learning centres in India.

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MayflowersKill
On July 4th, in partnership with tribal members in what is now the US, Survival International launched
the social media campaign #MayflowersKill. (2020 marked the 400th anniversary of the landing of the
Mayflower on US soil).
Throughout the year, #MayflowersKill shared voices of Indigenous Peoples speaking out about thehistory and legacy of colonialism, to counter colonial narratives and to fight the ongoing genocide of
Indigenous Peoples and uncontacted tribes today.
The campaign engaged Indigenous Peoples of North America from more than 25 tribes. Survival
gathered over 100 testimonies, and curated multi-media content and educational material to amplify
these voices widely across social media. The campaign engaged thousands of Survival followers onsocial media and over 1,500 people helped counter colonial narratives by sharing Indigenous voicesfrom #MayflowersKill on their personal social media accounts.
In September, using these testimonies, the campaign launched an interactive map displaying
perspectives from Indigenous Peoples across the Americas on the meaning of “Mayflower,” which
has already been used in classrooms in the US and Spain. Later in September, the UK’s Independent
newspaper interviewed Survival and published an article featuring #MayflowersKill.
Survival worked in partnership with No New Worlds’ art collective (Still/Moving), in Plymouth, UK. In
the lead up to what many know as Thanksgiving, otherwise known as the National Day of Mourning,
our collaboration showcased and amplified the voices of 30 Indigenous people talking about the
Mayflower’s history, and how colonialism impacts them.
On November 26th, Survival spoke at the annual National Day of Mourning commemoration in
Plymouth, MA, about the ongoing threat colonization poses for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples today.
With significant press and radio coverage, participation in educational panels, videos, and articles
published on our Medium account, the campaign has successfully contributed to raising awarenessabout the harm colonial narratives and practices have caused and continue to pose, especially for
uncontacted tribes.

TRIBAL VOICE
Survival’s Tribal Voice project invites indigenous peoples around the world to record videos speaking
about what matters to them. Survival then releases these videos globally, subtitled in several
languages.
Survival released 22 Tribal Voice videos in 2020. A number of tribal people used the platform to
expose evictions and abuses in the name of conservation – in India, Nepal and Myanmar. Others toldof new forms of invasions and of legislative genocide in Brazil. In particular, the voices of indigenous
young women stood out, with several of their Tribal Voice videos going viral on social media.
Tribal Voice videos have been an invaluable resource for spreading the word on indigenous issues
and on Survival’s campaigns. In 2020, many organizations and individuals with large followings
shared Tribal Voice videos, with Survival’s message alongside. On top of this, several journalists
approached Survival for further information on the issues that they had learned about in the videos.
In November, we released a special Tribal Voice video of Paulo Paulino Guajajara, the Amazon
Guardian killed by loggers, to commemorate the first anniversary of his death. This had been filmed in2017 but never previously made public. The video brought a chilling reminder of the real threats that
tribal peoples face and drove home the importance of the fight for indigenous rights.

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MEDIA
Press
In 2020, Survival secured a huge amount of media coverage, including hundreds of mentions ofSurvival and our work in the press, and dozens of TV and radio interviews around the world.
The impact of coronavirus on tribal peoples generated a great deal of media interest. Some of ourmost covered stories of 2020, which were widely reported on at an international level, included theCovid-19 threat to the Great Andamanese and Sentinelese tribes in the Andaman Islands, and also
the spread of infection amongst the Arara, who became the most infected tribe in the Brazilian
Amazon. News outlets that covered these stories included the BBC, IT News, The Huffington Post
and ABC.
An Amazon Guardian, Zezico Guajajara, and Rieli Franciscato, coordinator of the FUNAI (Brazil’s
Indigenous Affairs Agency) team protecting uncontacted Indians’ land in Rondonia, were both killedwhilst defending indigenous people’s rights. Both stories were picked up by outlets such as the BBC,CNN and The Times.
Our media coverage in support of the Yanomami people’s MinersOutCovidOut campaign – a petitionand social media campaign promoted by various Brazilian organizations – contributed in large part tothe very high number of signatures. We ensured the petition hand-in was covered by key international
outlets, such as France 24 and The Guardian.
On November 1st, the world remembered Paulo Paulino Guajajara, the Amazon Guardian shot deadby loggers in 2019. Survival ensured that his voice lived on by securing coverage of his story on theanniversary of his killing in, amongst others, NBC, Thomson Reuters, and The Independent.
Our campaign to decolonize conservation has been covered around the world. In February a major
UNDP investigation into human rights abuses associated with WWF’s flagship project in the Congo
was covered by many outlets including The Guardian. Among a steady stream of stories andcoverage throughout the year, BBC London Radio reported on Nepali indigenous organizations’criticism of London Zoo, and Down to Earth in India ran an article on the US government’s decision
to halt more than $12 million of funding to WWF, WCS and other conservation bodies. Our new#BigGreenLie campaign was covered by major international outlets such as El País in Spain and TAZ
in Germany.
Our successful campaign to persuade the International Union of Anthropological and EthnologicalStudies (IUAES) to scrap plans to hold the 2023 World Anthropology Congress at the world’s biggest
factory school, the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, was covered in Lifegate, and was mentioned
in a major exposé of Factory Schools that we secured in the leading US indigenous outlet IndianCountry Today.
Social Media
During the coronavirus pandemic, social media has been a critical means of maintaining
communication and promoting campaigns, with supporters and journalists alike.
Survival’s Instagram channel has been our fastest growing platform in 2020, with follower numbers
growing by 172% since 2019. Our supporter base and engagement has increased on this platform as
our output has become more engaging, and we have worked effectively with influencers and othervoices of authority to help bring our key messages to the forefront of online conversations.
In 2020, several of our posts went viral on Twitter, one example being the MinersOutCovidOut video,
The Shaman’s Message, which was shared by the likes of Greta Thunberg and Sir Quentin Blake andachieved over 2 million views. It brought in thousands more signatures to the petition over the
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Facebook and Instagram have given us the opportunity to bring our events online, where we havestreamed live talks about Factory Schools, our Conservation campaign, and about MayflowersKill.
With our online events, Survival was able to forge closer relationships with fellow activists as well as
connect with our supporters. Our livestreams, especially the talk on conservation, partnering with
Extinction Rebellion Youth, and with Dr Mordecai Ogada as an invited speaker, sparked many
conversations around the flaws of the mainstream conservation model.
During the pandemic, as before, Survival mobilized its supporters online. One example was ourtargeting of the New Tribes Mission’s social media pages: we asked supporters to comment on theirpages against their work evangelizing uncontacted tribes. Our action resulted in over 100 comments,
in English, Portuguese, French, German and Italian against the missionary organization. The New
Tribes Mission were forced to make their Instagram page private, and to turn off comments for their
Facebook page. The action also led many supporters, including some indigenous individuals, tocontact Survival to inquire about the action and our other campaigns.
EDUCATION
Survival’s main focus this year has been to create new content for our younger audience. We now
have a great variety of engaging audio-visual resources for the 5-11 year age group, including tribal
voice videos, time-lapse videos highlighting tribal knowledge, animated videos (thanks to acollaboration with animation students from Falmouth University) and binaural sound resources,
allowing for a more immersive classroom experience. It is hoped this work will help maximise
Survival’s reach, providing educators everywhere with the resources they need to effectively bring theissue of tribal peoples’ rights to the classroom.
Primary teacher feedback: “[The resources] inspired a lot of discussion and questions and provided
the opportunity to discuss what is currently happening for the Yanomami at the moment… Really
useful resources which I plan to use with other classes in the future.”
Survival firsts: virtual workshops
During the pandemic, educational outreach events and workshops successfully went online:
Primary teacher feedback: “The session was so good, the children loved asking their questions andthank you for such informative answers! The idea of having an expert was so great for the children
and we will be looking at ways to hopefully raise some money for Survival.”
Event organizer feedback: “Thank you very much for sharing with our young adults your message
about respecting and learning from indigenous cultures. It was brilliant!”

SUPPORTERS
Survival 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 in which
our supporters helped out in 2020:
Community fundraising
We had a 50% increase in UK community fundraising compared to 2019, thanks to our supporters’
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2020’s Spring paper appeal brought in over £32,000 from supporters; a further £16,300 was raised
from 140 Facebook fundraisers by our followers.
Some supporters took part in the Virtual London Marathon: our runners Laura, Kemelo, Annabelle
and Enia raised over £4,400 in less than a week.
We would like to make a special mention of supporter Tony Riddle, who set a 3 Peaks Challenge
World Record by running the distance between the mountains barefoot. Even though he fractured his
toe half-way through his run, he still finished the course and raised over £8,000 for Survival.
Raising awarenessKings College London Amnesty, XR Youth, Adivasi Lives Matter and other allies have raised
awareness for Survival International by hosting events for supporters, inviting our researchers or
consultants to give talks, or by helping fundraise for our cause. This has garnered stronger
relationships and fostered a wider network in the fight for indigenous rights.
Donating through businessIn 2020, we grew our business support base, with several businesses pledging to donate to Survival.
A few examples:
Emma Aitchison, a jewellery designer, donated over £1,933 in just the final quarter of 2020;
electrician Tom Nicholson generously donated a total of £800 in two separate donations; and Shakti
Ellenwood (jewellery designer) donated £810.
Survival’s Ambassadors
Survival’s Ambassadors, including Gillian Anderson, Jerome Flynn and Julian Lennon, continue tosupport and promote the organization’s campaigns across their social media, while Kurt Jackson
donated artwork for one of our Christmas cards.
Photography competition
Survival’s photography competition continues tocreate a buzz. For the 2021 calendar, half of thewinning images were by indigenous photographers.
The winning image was by Yoeme, A:shiwi, andRarámuri photographer Tomás Karmelo Amaya,
depicting matriarchs from various backgrounds andtribal affiliations gathering in a tipi for a women’s
meeting. The photo (pictured) was taken at theresistance camp against the Dakota Access Pipeline
in North Dakota, on the ancestral homelands of theOčeti Šakówiŋ.
The calendar itself was extremely successful this year and was sold out before the end of 2020.
Supporting our online shop
Although the office shop had to remain shut due to the pandemic, Survival’s supporters were keen to
make the most of the online shop. At Christmas we saw record sales, with a 400% increase in sales
compared to last year. The shop continues to be our largest annual fundraiser, and also our biggest
recruiter of new supporters & donors.
A more detailed account of the work undertaken worldwide by Survival International can be found atwww.survivalinternational.org.

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PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODSThe Trustees will continue to forward the objectives of the charity, using the complementary methods ofeducation and awareness, field projects, and research and publicity.
The threats against tribal peoples, especially in Brazil, Colombia and India are acute and growing. We willcontinue to allocate significant resources towards preventing the annihilation of uncontacted tribes (themost vulnerable peoples on the planet), stopping the abuse of tribal peoples in the name of“conservation,” and opposing the theft of tribal peoples’ lands and denial of their rights to self
determination.
We are investing in new systems as part of ongoing efforts to update and streamline existing supporterrelated work and better track the results of our campaigns. They will help us work more efficiently andeffectively. The project was completed in May 2020.
In 2021 grants of £100,000 was made to each the offices of Survival Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Spainand USA to further the Charities long term objectives and to create a sustainable growth for these offices.
Therefore, a deficit has been budgeted for 2021.
In March 2021 a new CEO has taken up the role and is working with staff to review systems and futureplans including how to develop a plan for post-covid working practices.

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENTSTRUCTURE
Survival International is an unincorporated worldwide movement which has as its objective helping
tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
The movement consists of an International Secretariat in London and six country offices in France,
Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. Survival’s Italian office is a branch of the British
charity. All other offices are governed under charitable law in their respective countries and their useof the Survival name and logo is ultimately subject to the authority of the Council. With the exceptionof Italy, whose accounts are consolidated with those of the charity, and whose results are included in
the consolidated financial statements, each office publishes its accounts separately. In 2021 Italy will
have its own stand alone constitution of which the details are still being finalised.
GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Survival is registered under the name Survival International Charitable Trust as a limited company (no.
1056317), and a charity (no. 267444) governed by a memorandum and articles of association.
Survival International Trading Ltd is registered as a limited company (no. 2844785). It has amemorandum and articles of association. Its object is to sell appropriate goods at a profit, which is
given to the charity, and to promote the charity in other ways.
Survival and all its components are governed by the Council. Council members are the Trustees of
the charity. Members are chosen for their expertise and experience in relevant fields and theirsupport for Survival’s objectives. They are elected for three-year terms by existing Council members.
Induction training is provided for new Council members, who are updated on legislation and Trustee
responsibility as necessary. The Council meets at least three times each year.
The Council is responsible for monitoring the charity’s activities, overseeing governance, andensuring the charity meets its aims and objectives.
The Council employs the Chief Executive to implement policy, raise and manage funds, andsupervise the office and employees of Survival. The current Chief Executive is Caroline Pearce(appointed 16 March 2021). Stephen Corry resigned on 15 March 20201.
The pay of all Survival personnel (including key management personnel) is established annually by
the Treasurer and Chairman in consultation with the Chief Executive and another senior staff
member. Comparable NGO salaries are taken into account.
FUNDRAISING
Fundraising is largely carried out by appeals for financial support from existing supporters, throughemail or letters, at a frequency of around four times a year. We receive less than ten complaints per
year that the frequency is excessive. Those who request not to be contacted are immediately
removed from our mailing lists. No pressure is exercised. Much of our income is from unsolicited
giving including legacies.

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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, we2020 for every £1 donated, we spent only 3.0p
also keep our fundraising costs extremely low. In 2018,
2.7p toraise the next £1.

Trustees’ Statement
This summary financial information is extracted from the full unqualified audited group accounts
approved by the Trustees on 11
15 May 20192021 and subsequently submitted to the Charity Commission
and to Companies House. They may not contain sufficient information to allow a full understanding of
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, 11
15 May 2019.
2021.

SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR 2020
2020
£

2019
£

1,124,778
370,379
50,183

1,222,606
462,306
53,596

1,545,340

1,738,508

1,299,259
126,740
18,566

1,200,706
128,561
128,561
15,303

1,444,565

1,344,570

100,775
125,796

393,938
25,436

226,571419,374

2020
£

2019
£

182,253
767,485
2,362,625
3,547,030

192,217772,3422,290,873
3,479,619

6,859,393

6,735,051

137,585

239,814

INCOMING RESOURCES
Donations & Fundraising
Legacies
Investments & Other Income

RESOURCES EXPENDED
Project, Publication and Education

PROJECT

Fundraising and Publicity
GovernanceNet Incoming Resources
Investments & Exchange

NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDSASSETS & LIABILITIES AT 31 DEC 2020
ASSETS
Intangible Fixed Assets
Tangible Fixed Assets
Investments
Current Assets

LIABILITIESAmounts falling due within one year15