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The Yanomami are one of the most numerous, and best-known, forest-dwelling tribes in South America. Their home is in the Amazon rainforest, among the hills that line the border between Brazil and Venezuela.
In Brazil, Ibama agents and others are stepping in to remove thousands of illegal goldminers from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.
Survival proposes a new six-point plan to stop the genocide of the Yanomami people.
Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.
NEWS: Unique photo exhibition will highlight Yanomami’s plight March 10, 2021 A Yanomami shaman. The spirit world is a fundamental part of Yanomami life. Every creature, rock, tree and mountain has a spirit. © Claudia Andujar/Survival The Barbican, London, June 17 – August 29 2021 An exhibition of the extraordinary work of Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar, opening in June at the Barbican in London, shines a light on the rich and complex cosmology of the Yanomami tribe – an Amazonian people whose very survival is now under threat. Claudia, who settled in Brazil after escaping...