Report Warns Uncontacted Peoples Face Mounting Threats

Far from public view, a new Survival International report warns that at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups in 10 countries—most in the Amazon—are under intensifying pressure from logging, mining, agribusiness and organized crime. Nearly 65% face logging threats, 40% mining, and 20% agribusiness; half could be wiped out within a decade without action. Experts urge legally recognized no‑contact zones, stronger enforcement, and supply‑chain scrutiny. Recent developments in Peru, Brazil and Ecuador underscore uneven protections, while projects from Brazilian railways to Indonesia’s nickel mining deepen risks to isolated peoples and the forests they sustain.