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 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.
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 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.
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
and the need to provide an explanation of the achievements during the year under review.
All our activities focused 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 CAMPAIGNS“Uncontacted Tribes: Let Them Live”
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.
Amazon Uncontacted Frontier
The Amazon Uncontacted Frontier is a region straddling the borders of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia andis home to the largest concentration of uncontacted tribal peoples on the planet. As such, in 2016
we decided that it was paramount to give the region better recognition in the public domain. Throughour investigations we identified the major threats to uncontacted Matsés and Mashco-Piro Indians in
Peru.
The uncontacted Matsés’ land in northeastern Peru is being encroached upon by a number of illegal
activities including logging and drug trafficking. An oil concession overlaps onto their land, andCanadian oil company, Pacific E&P, has been awarded the rights to explore inside. We lobbied
Peruvian ministries, urging them to cancel the oil concession and to forbid further oil exploration
activities. We staged a “virtual rally” against the company, mobilizing supporters to post a commenton its Facebook page urging it to withdraw from the region. Over 400 comments were posted in
English, French, Spanish and Italian. We also lobbied the government to fulfil its legal obligation tocreate an indigenous reserve, which will offer greater protection to the uncontacted indigenous
people inside.
Our research and investigations regarding the recently-contacted Mashco-Piro demonstrated theimportance of having an effective policy and budget in place to mitigate the urgent situation that
follows contact. Such a policy needs to prevent the spread of fatal diseases, protect the land of thetribe making contact and oversee the policing of the territory’s boundaries. If not, the results can becatastrophic. Survival lobbied the Peruvian government to respect both domestic and internationallaw by protecting uncontacted peoples’ territories and to follow its policy of “no contact.”
Survival urged the Peruvian government to veto plans for a road that would divide and destroy the
territories of a number of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, and also
submitted a complaint to the UN Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples about thedisastrous impacts of the proposed road.
Awá, Brazil
In August, forest fires raged through parts of the Brazilian Amazon, threatening to wipe out
uncontacted members of the Awá tribe. Our communications team motivated thousands of our
supporters to send an email to the government, urging it to bring in its own fire-fighting teams rather
than leave poorly-equipped members of the neighbouring Guajajara tribe (who call themselves the
Guajajara Guardians, because they work to protect their forest from illegal loggers) to extinguish thefires themselves. Combined with our lobbying, this pressed the government to finally release extra
resources which, together with the arrival of the rains, led to the fires being extinguished. We
continued to urge the government not to cut its financial support to the Guajajara Guardians and toprovide more long-term support to the Awá. Two uncontacted Awá sisters, who had become
seriously ill with tuberculosis post-contact in 2014, decided to return to their lives in the forest after
fully recovering in September. The sisters had been living on the run from encroaching loggers for along time, and were contacted by fellow settled Awá, who feared for their safety, two years ago. The
sisters would certainly have died if Survival had not pushed Brazil into providing urgent medical carepost-contact. After eighteen months of living in a settled Awá village, the sisters returned to theirforest – deliberately hiding their tracks so that no one could follow them. It was thanks to Survival’s
campaign that they were well enough to return to their home this year.
Ayoreo, Paraguay
We continued lobbying cattle ranching companies Carlos Casado (a subsidiary of Grupo San José
S.A. of Spain) and Yaguareté Porã S.A. (Brazil), urging them to stop destroying the Chaco forest,
home of the last uncontacted Indians outside Amazonia. Part of the Ayoreo’s ancestral land has
been classified as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, and suffers the fastest deforestation rate in theworld because of the encroachment of these cattle ranching activities. We reinforced our demandthat this forest be returned to its original owners and wrote to Yaguareté Porã S.A., Grupo San José
S.A. and relevant government ministries. Our legal team wrote a “shadow” report to the UN
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which was then included in its review
of Paraguay's human rights conduct. If Survival had not made this submission, CERD would nothave included the theft of Ayoreo land and destruction of their biodiverse forest in its report.
Kawahiva, Brazil
On Brazil’s “Day of the Indian” in April, the Minister of Justice signed a decree which officiallyrecognized the boundaries of the Kawahiva's territory. As a result of Survival’s campaign, nobody
can lodge an objection to the territory’s boundaries – the major hurdle to the protection of the tribe’s
land is now over. Following this great success, we continued to apply pressure on the Brazilian
government’s Indigenous Affairs Department (FUNAI) to officially demarcate the Kawahiva’s territory,
and to ratify and enter it into the land registry.
Uncontacted rights
Survival continued to challenge dangerous proposals by US anthropologists Kim Hill and Robert
Walker for “controlled contact” of uncontacted peoples. In July, we coordinated an open letter
severely criticizing Hill and Walker’s proposed policies, which was signed by experts on uncontacted
tribes from the Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department. The following indigenous
groups also signed the letter: the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian
Amazon, Indigenous Organization of Peru’s Eastern Amazon, the Ayoreo-TotobiegosodeOrganization of Paraguay and the Aty Guasu Guarani Association of Brazil. Various Brazilian NGOs
such as the Missionary Council for Indigenous Peoples, the Socio-Environmental Institute and theCenter for Indigenous Work have also denounced the proposals by Hill and Walker. We publicized
the letter on our website, and sent it to hundreds of indigenous organizations, leaders and experts inthe field to inform them of our “Uncontacted Tribes” campaign, which aims to draw people’s
attention to the risks of forcing contact on uncontacted tribes and prevent Hill and Walker’s
proposed policies from gaining ground.

“Stop the Con! Listen to Tribal Conservationists”
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.

Best Conservationists
In order to drive our campaign to succeed in the long term, we emphasized through all ourcorrespondence and media the fact that tribal peoples are the best conservationists, and that thebest way to protect the environment is to ensure their land rights are upheld. We contacted dozens
of conservation organizations and thousands of experts in the field with information about our
campaign, which helped both challenge the agents responsible for abusing tribal peoples’ rights inthe name of conservation and build a groundswell of public support in favour of tribal
conservationists.
Congo Basin Tribes
Expanding on our work in Cameroon last year, we carried out new investigations across the Congo
River basin into the situation of the Baka, Bayaka and neighboring tribes in Central African Republic
and Congo Republic. In February our legal team issued a 172-page complaint against WWF for
failing in its duty under the OECD guidelines to respect the human rights of the Baka “Pygmies” ofsoutheast Cameroon, which included charging the conservation organization with contributing toviolent abuse and land theft against the Baka. This is the first time that such a complaint has been
admitted against a non-governmental organization, and multiple sources inform us that it had a huge
impact on WWF at the highest level. In December, the complaint was officially admitted by the Swiss
National Contact Point, which is a giant step for vulnerable peoples – they can alreadyuse OECD Guidelines to try and stop corporations riding roughshod over them, but this is first timeever it’s agreed that the rules also apply to industrial-scale NGOs like WWF. We continued toinvestigate the French company Rougier’s illegal logging operations – which have been endorsed via
a partnership with the WWF – and publicized the reality of harmful “shoot on sight” policies on the
ground for Baka and neighboring communities. Our campaign received significant coverage when
we issued a press release exposing eco-guard abuse against the Baka on their land, which had beenstolen to make way for a trophy-hunting concession.
Exposing the crimes of green militarism
Over the past year we lobbied thousands of conservation experts, organizations, anti-poachingoutfits and militarized conservation advocates in an attempt to generate discussion around the issue
of innocent tribal peoples being used as scapegoats for poaching, which has afforded our “Stop The
Con!” campaign much greater visibility in the public eye. We continued to apply pressure on local
and national governments to recognize the consequences that their militarized conservation policies
have on tribal peoples, and to remove the immunity anti-poaching squads and park rangers enjoy
with regards to “shoot on sight” policies. Our legal team submitted an entry to the Assam Human
Rights Commission, requesting information on whether they are investigating the use of “shoot onsight” in Kaziranga National Park, and drawing attention to the fact that the chances of forest guards
being prosecuted is minimal and there is no form of appeal for victims. As well as denouncing thespecific cases of militarized conservation crime against tribal peoples in Indian tiger reserves and innational parks across the Congo Basin, our campaign was increasingly directed towards addressing
the issue on a global level.
Tiger reserves, India
We continued our work to challenge the illegal evictions of tribal communities from protected areas
across India. The Forest Department is responsible for carrying out the evictions, but the big
conservation organizations are also implicated as they provide funding and material support for the
reserves, and they do not speak out against the evictions or “shoot on sight” policies. Our campaign
activities included ramping up the visibility of the issue by lobbying the government departments
involved, as well as some of the most influential tiger conservation organizations, such as 21stCentury Tiger, United for Tigers, Tiger Time Now, Save Wild Tigers, Protect the Tiger, Save ourTigers, and WWF Tigers. We filed a complaint to the Chhattisgarh Human Rights Commission
regarding a number of villages due to be evicted from Achanakmar tiger reserve, and mobilized
supporters to send an email to the Indian government urging officials to declare a moratorium on
further evictions of tribal peoples from tiger reserves, and to ensure that any “resettlement” conforms
to Indian law. We collected evidence in seven tiger reserves across India including footage of tribal
people’s testimonies on the effects conservation has on their lives, and received strong letters from
communities in Achanakmar and Amrabad tiger reserves calling on the authorities to allow them tostay on their land.

“Tribal Future”
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.
Arara, Brazil
In April, we publicized a success for the Arara tribe, after Brazil’s president signed a decree which
formally protects their land, known as Cachoeira Seca. The Arara had fought for decades forthousands of illegal settlers and loggers to be removed from their ancestral land. Survival publicized
their plight in the 1990s and applied pressure on the Brazilian government to officially recognize theterritory.
Dongria Kondh, India
Survival continued to lead international resistance to the Odisha state government’s latest attempt tostart large-scale mining in the Dongria Kondh’s sacred Niyamgiri hills. We publicized the struggle of
the Dongria Kondh and gave them a platform from which their voices could be heard across theworld. In May, India’s Supreme Court rejected the Odisha state government’s plans to take over the
Dongria Kondh’s ancestral lands again: This represents yet another victory in a war the Odisha state
has been unsuccessfully waging against the tribe for many years now.
Guarani, Brazil
Guarani leader Tonico Benites travelled to Europe to draw attention to the ongoing genocide of
Brazilian Indians. Survival’s press team arranged a number of interviews for him and organized a
Q&A on popular internet forum Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” section, which gained a lot of interest
from the general public. We continued to bring attention to frequent attacks on the Guarani tribe
orchestrated by ranchers and plantation owners, and worked hard to publicize the violence throughvarious press releases and social media posts. At the beginning of the year, we published a new
illustrated report, “Progress Can Kill”, which revealed that the appalling suicide rate among theindigenous Guarani Kaiowá people of southern Brazil is the highest in the world.
Ogiek, Kenya
Survival urged the Kenyan authorities to organize an immediate, independent investigation into thekilling of an Ogiek man, who was shot dead by a settler within sight of local police in March. The
Ogiek have lived in the Mau Forest since time immemorial, but have long been victims of statesponsored landgrabs. In 2014, Kenya’s courts ordered that the Ogiek’s land be identified as soon as
possible. This ruling was never implemented, however, so we continued to urge the Kenyan
authorities to recognize the Ogiek’s land rights according to international law.
Omo Valley tribes, Ethiopia
Survival’s legal team filed a 66-page complaint against the Italian engineering giant Salini to the
Italian government’s National Contact Point highlighting its violations of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development’s guidelines for multinational enterprises over its
construction of a controversial dam on the Omo River. The complaint focuses on Salini’s failure torespect the rights of the tribal peoples living along the lower Omo river downstream of the dam and toobtain their free, prior and informed consent to the project. The tribes now face hunger and a bleak
future, as the dam has ended the natural flood on which they relied to cultivate crops. We continued to
expose the urgent situation of the Omo tribes through press releases.

Orang Rimba, Indonesia
Survival publicized the eviction of the nomadic Orang Rimba tribe from a palm oil plantation on theirancestral land. Although a national park was created to protect local wildlife and – unprecedented inIndonesia – the tribe, the Indonesian government signed over most of the Orang Rimba’s ancestral
lands to palm oil, timber and other plantation companies. Following field investigations by Survival
and subsequent lobbying, we led the international call for the Orang Rimba’s right to their ancestral
lands to be recognized.
Rio Olympics and PEC 215, Brazil
PEC 215 is a raft of proposed changes to Brazil’s constitution which would seriously undermine
indigenous land rights; threaten to nullify existing indigenous territories in Brazil; and impede
recognition of future land demarcation. We capitalized on media hype surrounding the Olympics todraw attention to the threats posed to tribal peoples in Brazil by launching a publicity drive, “StopBrazil’s Genocide.” We persistently pushed these issues through the national and international
media, and staged a protest outside the Brazilian embassy in London to increase pressure on Brazil
to stop the ongoing genocide of its tribal peoples.
TRIBAL VOICE
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 continued to build on the success of our project to give tribal peoples a platform for their voices
to be heard across the world. Over the year we released 20 new videos recorded by tribal peoples
and shared them on our website, through our social media channels and with our supporters. Someof the video submissions received were from tribes which had never before used the project such as
the Orang Rimba of Indonesia and the Pataxó of Brazil. A number of videos were sent straight fromthe scene of attacks. More indigenous people are engaging in the project and are viewing it as afundamental tool to make their voices heard. Both the Guarani and Guajajara Indians regard the
project as their “greatest weapon.”
MEDIA
Our social media presence continued to grow rapidly, with our following on Facebook in English
alone growing from 200,000 at the start of 2016 to just under 290,000 at the end of the year,
representing growth of 45%. We have followers in over 100 countries worldwide thanks to themassive potential reach of social media platforms. Both Facebook and Twitter were successfully
used as campaigning tools to contact key campaign targets, such as WWF and other big
conservation organizations, and the Canadian oil company Pacific E&P, who responded with abespoke letter following our “virtual rally” in September. Several of our videos achieved viral reach,
and we used Facebook as a platform to allow tribal peoples to speak to the world. A video in which a
Matsés man speaks about the experience of first contact was seen by over 4 million people, and avideo taken by a Guarani man as his community was being attacked by gunmen, which was seen byover 100,000, helped secure coverage of the attacks in global media, including Al Jazeera.
Survival’s presence in “traditional” media remained very strong, with articles on our campaigns
regularly appearing in the Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Independent, Daily Mail, Washington Post,
Vice, Reuters, Associated Press and many others. Our campaigners were frequently interviewed onradio, in the United States, South Africa, Botswana and Brazil, as well as the UK and Europe. We
had a significant breakthrough in media coverage in Brazil – one of our key target countries: Major
outlets such as Globo and Folha de São Paulo often covered our “Uncontacted Tribes” campaign,
and we now have a growing social media following in the country. The pressure we applied on the
Botswana government in the fiftieth anniversary of the country's independence was a success froma media point of view, with our press releases frequently being covered in leading Botswana
newspapers and radio stations. Survival’s “Stop The Con!” campaign also continued to shape thedebate about conservation in the Indian press, with journalists from major outlets like RPI, the Hindu,

and the Times of India covering our “Save the Tiger, Keep the People” case. Articles by Survival staff
and consultants were published and widely shared online. An article on due diligence in conservation
policy continues to be tweeted by activists, and another article explaining the rationale behind ourcomplaint against WWF in The Ecologist has helped frame the terms of the debate among interested
bloggers. Our relationship with several U.S. online publications like Truthout and Counterpunch has
allowed us to reach a growing American audience, and we are getting more opinion pieces into theGuardian, including a recent piece on the “right to hunt.”
EDUCATION
We gave a talk at an International Schools Conference in Bali, highlighting the work of Survival andthe positive role that tribal peoples can have in conserving their ancestral lands and the species
found on them. This was also a good opportunity to publicize the “Progress Can Kill” aspect of ourcampaign to students in Southeast Asia, many of whom were so inspired by our work that they
contacted us afterwards about their plans to do some campaigning for the rights of tribal peoples
themselves.

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.
X-Files T-Shirt Fundraising
Survival ambassador and actor Gillian Anderson launched an exclusive X-Files t-shirt in aid ofSurvival, sold through the charity platform Omaze, which raises funds and awareness throughcelebrity support. In total 2,233 t-shirts were sold, raising more than $16,700 for our campaigns.
Hackney Brewery charity beer
In collaboration with Hackney Brewery and Honest Brew, Survival ambassador Sir Quentin Blake
designed the label art of a limited-edition “Artist Series” of charity beers, with proceeds to Survival.
Jewellery sales
Survival ambassador and jewellery designer Pippa Small made a donation of £4,000 from the sale ofsome of her works.
Wedding Gift donations
Supporters Beatrice and Jeffrey asked for donations in lieu of gifts at their wedding in Italy. They
invited more than 400 guests and Survival was one of five charities to benefit from their generosity.
Black Diamond Ball fundraiser
Supporter Pete took part in a Black Diamond Ball fundraiser in the English Lake District. He shared
Survival literature with guests and nominated Survival to benefit from the event. We were mentioned
in local press as one of twelve charities to get a share and received over £1,000.
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.
Trustees’ Statement
This summary financial information is extracted from the full unqualified audited group accounts
approved by the Trustees on 9 May 2017 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, 9 May 2017.

SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR 2016
2016
£

2015
£

928,057
172,81449,545

1,416,294
157,018
45,3951,150,416

1,618,707

916,809106,278
18,189883,479
123,073
18,5301,041,276

1,025,082

Net Incoming Resources
Investments & Exchange

109,140
309,521593,625-21,916

NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

418,661

571,709

2016
£

2015
£

790,172
2,455,088
1,451,518

791,505
2,295,459
1,192,144

4,696,778

4,279,108

129,379

130,370

INCOMING RESOURCES
Donations & Fundraising
Legacies
Investments & Other Income

RESOURCES EXPENDED
Project, Publication and Education
Fundraising and Publicity
Governance

ASSETS & LIABILITIES AT 31 DEC 2016
ASSETS
Tangible Fixed Assets
Investments
Current Assets

LIABILITIESAmounts falling due within one year