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 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
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.
All uncontacted tribal peoples face catastrophe unless their land is protected. Survival International isdoing everything we can to secure it for them, and to give them the chance to determine their own
futures.
Uncontacted rights
Claims by U.S. anthropologists in Science magazine that South American governments had a duty tocontact uncontacted tribes threatened to turn back the clock on indigenous rights by decades. It wasvital to counteract this dangerous rhetoric. Survival’s press release and editorial generated good
media coverage and sparked a debate about the need to respect the tribes’ right to remain
uncontacted by upholding their land rights.
Awá, Brazil
We continued to build on the success of our campaign to have the land of Brazil’s Awá tribe
protected via direct lobbying and using the media and our supporters to put pressure on Brazil.
Recently-contacted Awá Indians were succumbing to deadly respiratory diseases but, following afield trip by Survival and subsequent campaigning, Brazil sent health teams to intervene. After illegal
loggers deliberately started fires on Awá land, Survival asked our supporters to email the President
and the head of the forest fire-fighting center to demand swift action be taken before more of thetribe’s forest was engulfed in flames. After thousands of emails were sent, the fires wereextinguished. We also publicized an initiative by the Guajajara tribe to protect the land of theiruncontacted Awá neighbors from illegal loggers, and continued to supply crucial information to theInter-American Commission on Human Rights for its ongoing investigation into this case.
Kawahiva, Brazil
In 2014 we launched the public side of our campaign to save the Kawahiva from extinction. This was
the culmination of many months of research and investigation into this uncontacted tribe, whose landis being steadily overrun by illegal loggers and settlers. We obtained the only known footage of thetribe, and created a video which was narrated by Survival ambassador and award-winning actor
Mark Rylance. Thousands of Survival supporters were motivated to email the Minister of Justicedemanding that he take action to protect the tribe’s land. A logging gang operating illegally near thetribe was arrested, and our campaign received significant coverage in the Brazilian and internationalpress. Reports emerged that it had begun to have an impact on local politicians.
Hi Merimã, Brazil
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras halted oil and gas exploration near uncontacted Indians.
Survival campaigned against Petrobras’s operations, lobbied the company to halt activities, andpublicized the issue on our website and social media.
Ayoreo, Paraguay
Our campaign to save the last refuge of Paraguay’s Ayoreo tribe and their uncontacted relatives
focused on pushing the Spanish company Grupo San José to ensure its subsidiary (Carlos CasadoSA) would return Ayoreo land, and on stopping Brazilian company Yaguarete from further deforesting
the Chaco. Activities included lobbying shareholders, demonstrating at Grupo San José’s AGM,
mobilizing supporters to send thousands of emails to Paraguay’s Attorney General and Yaguarete,
and working on a submission to the UN for its Universal Periodic Review.

Mashco-Piro, Peru
An increase in sightings of Mashco-Piro on the fringes of the Manu National Park suggested that
contact between the tribe and settled society was imminent. After persistent and sustained
campaigning from Survival, the Peruvian government adopted our recommendations for instances oftribal peoples initiating contact. The Ministry of Culture passed a Ministerial Decree that strengthened
laws prohibiting the forced contact of uncontacted tribes and outlined procedures in cases ofaccidental contact or contact initiated by the tribe itself. It also installed a permanent guard post in
two tribal villages to help prevent any unwanted contact, carried out educational awareness-raising
activities with local indigenous peoples about the dangers of contact, and set up a permanent healthteam in the area in case contact with the Mashco-Piro results in the spread of disease.

Tribal conservationists
Tribal peoples have been dependent on and managed their environments for millennia. Evidence
proves that tribal peoples are better at looking after their environment than anyone else. They are thebest conservationists and guardians of the natural world. They should be at the forefront of theenvironmental movement.
But tribal peoples are being illegally evicted from their ancestral homelands in the name ofconservation. Now tribal people are accused of “poaching” because they hunt to feed their families.
And they face arrest and beatings, torture and death, while big game trophy hunters are encouraged.
But targeting tribal hunters diverts action away from tackling the true poachers – criminals conspiringwith corrupt officials. Targeting tribal hunters harms conservation.
Survival International is fighting these abuses, for tribes, for nature, for all humanity.
Baka, Cameroon
We focused on the case of the hunter-gathering Baka, an example of a worldwide trend towards
criminalizing tribal hunters. The Baka’s lands have been stolen for national parks and sports-hunting
concessions and the Baka are largely banned from entering. Anti-poaching squads funded by theWorld Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) routinely harass Baka communities, threaten them, beat them up,
and destroy their forest camps. Survival carried out research into abuse, created a series of shortfilms, and briefed journalists on the issue. Our legal team prepared a complaint about WWF to besubmitted with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is the first timesuch a complaint will be submitted about a conservation organization.
Hunters not poachers
Policies and initiatives driven by western conservation organizations and national governments totackle poaching are at the heart of the horrific abuse meted out to tribal hunters. As well as the work
we carried out to tackle specific cases of abuse, it was vital to challenge the issue at the policy level.
United For Wildlife (UFW) is a global campaign against poaching created by the Royal Foundation of
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry – a coalition of some of the most powerfulconservation organizations. As one of the most prominent voices on the global stage in reference topoaching, we lobbied the Royal Foundation and UFW’s constituent organizations in order that they
distinguish between tribal people hunting for subsistence and illegal poaching. We also lobbied
attendees of a major international conference on the illegal wildlife trade held in Kasane, Botswana,
and ensured questions were asked in the UK and European Parliaments about this issue. Our CEO
and other Survival staff wrote a series of editorials on the subject.
Exposing the crimes of green militarism
Research and investigations carried out in 2015 demonstrated that the increasing militarization ofconservation is particularly detrimental to tribal peoples. Big conservation organizations have foundgreat support (and have accessed huge funding) for militarizing anti-poaching, in part due to spurious
links made between terrorist organizations and poachers. Survival investigated allegations of the link
between ivory and terrorism in East Africa, meeting widely with researchers in this field. We
publicized our findings alongside other experts, all of whom conclude that evidence for Al Shabaab’s
participation in the illegal ivory trade is extremely limited. We lobbied those responsible forpromulgating this myth, and drew media attention to the falsehoods via press releases, social media
and opinion pieces. In the wake of our publicity, we noticed more cases in which claims relating to
the link between terrorism and poaching were being questioned by public commentators.
Tiger reserves, India
We expanded our work in 2015 by working in partnership with tribal communities from Similipal,
Achanakmar and Kanha tiger reserves to broadcast their resistance to eviction. We focused onchallenging two myths that are often the justification for evictions. 1) The myth of human/wildlife
conflict, which says that tribal villages and “flagship” species cannot live together. (In fact, tribal
peoples have coexisted with the tiger for centuries, and in the first tiger reserve where a tribe had
successfully fought for their land rights to be recognized, tiger numbers have dramatically increased
in recent years.) 2) The myth that forced evictions are in fact “voluntary relocations.” (In fact, theForest Department harasses communities so severely that they finally succumb to the threat ofviolence and “agree” to move.) Our campaigning against evictions from tiger reserves is helping to
set the agenda in conservation circles. There has been a discernible increase in the discussion on
this issue in India this year in the press, which we believe is as a result of our work. The Minister for
Tribal Affairs was quoted as being opposed to forced evictions from tiger reserves – the first such
unequivocal statement that Survival has seen and a clear indication that the issue is increasing inimportance in Indian activist forums.
OTHER CASES
Jummas, Bangladesh
In March, following lobbying by Survival and local organizations, Bangladesh announced that it had
relaxed restrictions on foreigners meeting with Jumma tribespeople in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Omo Valley tribes, Ethiopia
By filing multiple freedom of information requests, Survival obtained reports from donor missions toEthiopia's Lower Omo Valley that the UK Department for International Development (DFID) had
sought to suppress. The reports confirmed the forced eviction of tribal peoples. In February 2015,
DFID withdrew from the Protection of Basic Services aid program which Survival and others had
revealed to be funding forced resettlement. In 2015 the US Omnibus Appropriations Bill explicitly
stipulated that US development funds to Ethiopia could not be used to support activities that directly
or indirectly involve forced evictions in Lower Omo. This came after extensive lobbying by Survival
and other NGOs.
Guarani, Brazil
Survival continued to support Guarani communities across southern Brazil, calling for their territories
to be recognized, their land to be returned to them, and eviction orders against them to be
overturned in the courts. We drew media attention to the extreme and systemic violence to which
they are subjected, highlighting assassinations of leaders and attacks by gunmen. Following local
and international pressure, judges overturned or suspended several eviction orders of Guarani
communities.
PEC 215, Brazil
We worked hard in 2015 to give a voice to Brazilian Indians protesting against a proposed
amendment to the constitution, known as PEC 215, which would drastically weaken their land rights.
By publicizing indigenous demonstrations and asking supporters to email the presidents of Brazil’s
Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as promoting the issue on social media and our website,
we contributed towards the tide of protest that has helped stall approval of the proposal.
Penan, Malaysia
Survival publicized the Malaysian Chief Minister’s announcement that the controversial Baram Dam
would be shelved. The dam would have displaced 20,000 tribal people, including the Penan. Survival
had helped bring press attention to the dam and campaigned against any projects taking place on
the tribe’s land without their consent.

West Papuan tribes, West Papua
We continued to stand alongside local and international organizations in lobbying Indonesia for the
release of Papuan tribespeople held as political prisoners and for West Papua to be opened toforeign journalists. A number of prisoners were given clemency and prominent activist Filip Karma
was released. In April, Survival and TAPOL (the British-based organization campaigning for humanrights, peace and democracy in Indonesia) organized a joint demonstration outside the IndonesianEmbassy in London to demand free and open access to West Papua. In May, the President officiallyannounced he would open Papua to foreign journalists – an unprecedented move for the Indonesian
government.

MEDIA
Survival’s press department works in six languages and promoted our message throughout the globe
across all forms of media. In 2015 we dramatically increased our impact on social media, seeing our
Facebook followers increase from 145,000 to 200,000, which represents growth of around 40%. Oneof our videos went viral on social media towards the end of the year, receiving some 30 million views.
Our presence in traditional print media and online newspapers was consistently strong. Our
campaigns were covered repeatedly in indigenous peoples' own media, such as Native News Online.
Survival's long-standing policy of targeting Botswana's media continued to pay dividends: All thecountry's main media outlets, such as Mmegi and the Sunday Standard, reported the continuing
persecution of the Kalahari Bushmen. Many other African news sources, such as Channel Africa
Radio, Arise TV and Africa Geographic, covered our work. Our Kawahiva campaign was broadcast
on national television in the United Kingdom and the U.S., and was covered by Globo, Brazil’s
biggest media outlet. The Guardian, BBC World Service, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, The
Daily Mail, Al Jazeera, CNN, Channel Four, The Economist, Truthout, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones,
The Ecologist, SABC, The Hindu, and Voice of America are just some of the outlets that interviewed
our staff or covered the work of our London and San Francisco offices. Besides English-languagepress, our overseas offices secured a great deal of coverage in outlets as diverse as EFE, El Mundo,
Courrier International, Die Welt, Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica.
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.
Eight challenges for eighty years
Survival's President, Robin Hanbury-Tenison helped found Survival in 1969, and has spent the last
46 years doing everything he can to grow the movement for tribal peoples’ rights. In 2015, in honorof his 80th year, Robin pulled out all the stops, completing eight daring challenges to raise funds for
Survival’s urgent work. From running the London Marathon, to sky-diving, via climbing to thesummits of Britain’s four highest peaks, Robin’s efforts resulted in almost £80,000 of donations toSurvival and inspired Survival supporters to take action themselves for tribal peoples.
Middle Temple Hall event
In January, a reading of a new “black comedy” by actors Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, Ben Miller,
John Sessions, Neil Stuke, Ben Miles and Dominic West was held at London’s Middle Temple Hall in
aid of Survival. Survival supporter Bruce McKay’s script focused on the life of Bartolomé de lasCasas, a sixteenth century Spanish bishop known as “Protector of Indigenous Peoples” who fought
church and state to stop atrocities in the New World. The exclusive event offered an excellent
opportunity to spread our message to a new audience, and raised vital funds for our work.
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 10 May 2016 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, 10 May 2016.

SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR 2015
2015
£

2014
£

1,416,294
157,018
51,623892,071
101,942
52,3691,624,935

1,046,382

Project, Publication and Education

883,479

922,125

Fundraising and Publicity
Governance

123,073
18,53087,06015,369

1,025,082

1,024,554

Net Incoming Resources
Investments & Exchange

599,853-28,144

21,828172,947

NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

571,709

194,775

2015
£

2014
£

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

806,628
1,974,677
952,587

4,279,108

3,733,892

130,370

156,863

INCOMING RESOURCES
Donations & Fundraising
Legacies
Investments & Other Income

RESOURCES EXPENDEDASSETS & LIABILITIES AT 31 DEC 2015

ASSETS
Tangible Fixed Assets
Investments
Current Assets

LIABILITIESAmounts falling due within one year