The fight is on to save Teztan Biny, "Fish Lake" a place of enormous cultural and spiritual significance for the The Tsilhqot’in Nation of British Colombia, Canada. Along with partners at work across Canada, Cultural Survival joins the Tsilhqot'in in demanding that "New Prosperity Mine" be cancelled and abandoned. But they need help from the international community to make their voices heard.

VICTORY!

El primero de mayo 2012, un líder comunitario de Guatemala fue asesinado por empleados de una empresa hidroeléctrica Española. La multitud se amotinó. Para responder, el presidente Otto Perez Molina declaró un estado de sitio en la municipalidad de Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango, territorio del pueblo Maya Q’anjob’al. Tanques y fuerzas armadas inundaron las calles del pueblo, persiguiendo y deteniendo lideres opuestos al proyecto hidroeléctrico.

On May 1, 2012, a community leader in Guatemala was killed by security guards of a Spanish hydroelectric company. Riots broke out. In response, President Molina declared martial law and army tanks descended into Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango. Heavily armed military lined the streets of the Q’anjob’al Maya town, seeking and detaining community leaders who were outspoken against the dam.

A New York based company is clearing rainforest for a huge monoculture palm oil plantation despite protests from local Indigenous groups.

Soldiers are forcing Indigenous Peoples off their homelands to benefit foreign agro industries.

Help Indigenous Kuy communities stop destruction of this unique primary forest.

This pipeline from Canada’s Tar Sands to the Gulf Coast threatens water sources, cultural sites, agricultural lands, animal life, and public health.

Construction threatens World Heritage Site, national parks, and sacred lands of the Telengit people.

A Chinese dam project threatens Central America’s largest tropical rainforest and Indigenous populations.