News archive » December 2007
Peru: BBC’s Bruce Parry begins Amazon adventure
21 December 2007
Bruce Parry, star of the BBC’s hit TV series Tribe, has begun a journey from the source to the mouth of the river Amazon, for a new series, ‘Amazon’, to be broadcast next year. 
Malaysia: Penan headman missing, feared murdered
20 December 2007
A headman from the Penan tribe of Sarawak, Malaysia, has gone missing and his community fear he may have been murdered. Kelesau Naan was last seen on 23 October when he left on a hunting trip. 
Indonesia: Police arrest, torture and kill Papuan tribal people
17 December 2007
Police in West Papua are killing, torturing and intimidating the province's tribal people with impunity. Police shot dead two Papuan women and injured another as they protested on 5 December near the British and American-owned Freeport mine. 
Botswana: Bushmen appeal to President
17 December 2007
On the first anniversary of their historic court judgment, the Bushman organisation First People of the Kalahari released an open letter to Botswana's President Mogae. 
India: Officials concede Narmada dam illegal
13 December 2007
A director of the government agency responsible for India’s controversial Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam has admitted that the construction of the dam has led to the illegal submergence of houses and farms. 
Brazil: Amazon Indians blockade dam site
10 December 2007
The remote Enawene Nawe tribe have blockaded the construction site of a hydroelectric dam in the Brazilian Amazon, which they say will destroy their vital fishing grounds. 
Guyana: Historic court case begins
3 December 2007
An historic land rights case has opened in Guyana’s Supreme Court, lodged by the Akawaio and Arekuna people of the Upper Mazaruni river basin.
