2. Survival International and The Little Black
Gallery announce the launch of its first photography
competition, to mark the 45th anniversary of Survival
International, and raise awareness of the threats to tribal
peoples and their ways of life.

15. This image captures the Awá journeying to the realm of the forest spirits. ©Toby Nicholas/ Survival

16. Hadza boy, Tanzania © Jo Eede / Survival Internationa

17. Enawene Nawe men perform the Yãkwa ritual, a four-month exchange of food between humans and the ancestral spirits, accompanied by dancing and
chanting to the sound of flutes. © Fiona Watson/ Survival

18. The forest of the Awá tribe is being
illegally cut down at an alarming rate.
© Fiona Watson/ Survival

19. Yanomami women and children rest in a forest garden, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/ Survival

20. The Awá of Brazil are Earth's most threatened tribe because their forest is being cut down at an alarming rate. Baby monkeys spend much time with Awá
women and children enjoying the physical contact. Many monkeys like to sit on their owners' heads. © Domenico Pugliese/ Survival

21. The loss and destruction of their lands has been at the root of the appalling suffering of Brazil's Guarani tribe. © Paul Patrick Borhaug/ Survival

23. Two children from the Dongria Kondh tribe who live in the Niyamgiri Hills in eastern India where a British company is seeking permission to create a vast
open-cast mine to extract bauxite. Photograph: Lewis Davies

25. A Penan mother and child in the forest, Sarawak, Malaysia. Whilet many are settled in communities, the tribe is traditionally nomadic and many rely on the
forest for their existence. However, their way of life is increasingly under threat from large-scale commercial logging. Photograph: Robin Hanbury-
Tenison/Survival

27. The Matsés are an Amazon forest-dwelling tribe along the Peru-Brazil border. First contacted in the 1960s, they have suffered greatly from illnesses such as
malaria, which their plant-based medicines cannot cure. Photograph: Survival

32. A Korowai woman in West Papua, occupied by Indonesia since 1963 where the army has a long history of human rights violations against the Papuans.
Photograph: Survival