Survival International and other leading NGOs are demanding that three companies withdraw from an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in Peru.

Survival International will tomorrow (3 November 2010) call for a boycott of Botswana diamonds over the government’s treatment of the Kalahari Bushmen.

Peru’s latest Amazon auction has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their land was sold.

The Indian government has blocked Vedanta Resources’ plan to expand its highly controversial alumina refinery below the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa.