The FTSE 100 mining giant Vedanta is challenging a ban on mining the sacred mountain of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe.

Visitors to the international tourism fair in Madrid today, (22 January 2011) were met by Survival protestors calling for a boycott of tourism to Botswana.

Botswana’s Court of Appeal will next week begin a hearing to decide whether Bushmen living on their ancestral lands have the right to water.

Fifteen per cent of the recently contacted Korubo Indians in Brazil have died since the year 2000, as a result of inadequate health care.