Survival International is a small charity run from a London basement
Survival International is effective in helping tribal peoples to represent their rights at an international level. This is an urgent problem, for many aboriginals face the prospect of irreparable destruction.
Tribal peoples are many things to many people victims of colonialism, potential converts to missionaries, a minority to 'developers', income to tourist operators and film makers, subject mat ter to anthropologists . . .
Until they become the subjects of their own destiny rather than the objects of someone else's, the work of SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL, which is unique amongst the few world organisations working in this "fourth world" area with isolated groups, will continue. It is sponsored by such people as The Rt . Hon. Viscount Boyd of Merton, P.C., C.H., The Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, P.C., 0.M., Lord Miles of .Blackfriars, Spike Milligan, Laurens van der Post, C.B.E., Sir Peter Scott, C.B.E., D.S.C. The Executive consists of' experts in all fields covered by S.I.'s interests — with an International Law Adviser fa Barrister-at-Law of Gray's Inn, London), a Medical Adviser (a hospital specialist), distinguished anthropologists such as Francis Huxley,,Professor Sir Edmund Leach and Professor Claude Levi-Strauss. The Chairman is the explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison and the Treasurer is John Hemming, author of "Red Gold — the history of the Brazilian Indians", SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL's list of projects effective in the field speaks for itself of the care and concern it vigilantly maintains on behalf of the world's greatest minority; the rich variety of cultures so carelessly being destroyed to the detriment of all mankind.
In the name of humanity and in the name of' self-preservation you should be concerned.
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