A stunning new photographic collection from Survival International celebrates some of the world's most unique tribal peoples and the landscapes they call home
A Kazakh eagle hunter lets fly in Bayan-Ulgii, MongoliaPhotograph: David Edwards/www.davidedwardsphotography.comA Chhetri woman in Dhorpatan, NepalPhotograph: Bruno Morandi/www.brunomorandi.comDolgan nomads travel to a new camp in their balok, a small wooden hut on runners, in Siberia's Anabar district. Many reindeer-herding tribes in Siberia have seen their land destroyed by the oil, gas and mining industriesPhotograph: Livia Monami/www.liviamonami.comA shaman calls sharks to his canoe in Kontu, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The island of New Guinea, comprising Papua New Guinea and West Papua, is home to about 1,000 languages – 15% of the world’s total – despite being home to only 0.1% of world’s populationPhotograph: Chris Rainier/CorbisAkabang, home of the Moken "sea gypsies", in the Mergui archipelago of the Andaman Sea. These animist, nomadic boat-dwellers have been under intense pressure to assimilate into mainstream Thai society, a development the Moken have been quietly resistingPhotograph: Cat Vinton/www.catvphotography.co.ukThe Naadam horse festival in Khentil province, MongoliaPhotograph: Bruno Morandi/www.brunomorandi.comAboriginal children play in Pitjantjatjara, Australia. The loss of their land begun with the British invasion has devasted Aboriginal peoples. They still face racism and violence, have a far higher infant mortality rate and suicide rate and a lower life expectancy than the rest of Australia, and make up a disproportionate section of the prison population. Despite the hurdles, however, some are finally securing ownership titles to their landPhotograph: Alastair McNaughton/www.desertimages.comThe Bushmen of the Kalahari, Namibia. There are 100,000 Bushmen in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola. The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve won a landmark court victory against the Botswana government in 2006, after being unlawfully evicted from their desert homePhotograph: Brent Stirton/www.brentstirton.comTwo Dongria Kondh women smile in Orissa. India's Dongria Kondh are fighting to prevent FTSE-100 company Vedanta Resources mining their sacred mountainPhotograph: Jason Taylor/www.jason-taylor.netThe Himba live by herding cattle in northern Namibia. A proposed dam that would flood their land has been shelvedPhotograph: Adam Hinton/Survival/ www.adamhinton.netThe winter solstice celebrations of the Kalash people in northwest PakistanPhotograph: David Stewart-Smith/Getty/Hulton Archive/www.davidstewart-smith.comThe Kogi are one of three closely related tribes living on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. All three are deeply spiritual, and believe they are the 'Elder Brothers' who hold the world in balance through a complex system of payments to the earth. They refer to outsiders as the 'Younger Brothers'Photograph: Juan Mayr/Survival InternationalKombai children collect firewood in West Papua. Papua’s natural resources are being exploited at great profit for the Indonesian government and foreign businessesPhotograph: Grenville Charles/www.grenvillecharles.co.ukMek tribesmen in Indonesia. The West Papuan tribes have suffered greatly under the Indonesian military occupation, which began in 1963Photograph: Chris Rainier/www.chrisrainier.comA Pintupi rock painting in AustraliaPhotograph: Frans Lanting/www.lanting.comTsuyan, the shaman matriarch of the Tsaatan, in MongoliaPhotograph: Hamid Sardar/CorbisTsaatan women in Hovsgol, MongoliaPhotograph: Hamid Sardar/CorbisCircumcision house in Yakel village at the top of a banyan tree where the boys stay after the ceremony in Tanna Island, VanuatuPhotograph: Eric Lafforgue/www.ericlafforgue.comA Yanomami shaman in the Catrimani river basin, Brazil. The Yanomami have started their own health and education projects, but critical medical care is not reaching them because of corruption and incompetencePhotograph: Claudia Andujar/SurvivalA Yanomami woman lounges with an armadillo near Toototobi river, Brazil. A fifth of the Yanomami died between 1987 and 1993 after illegal goldminers invaded their land in the Brazilian Amazon, bringing diseases to which the tribe had no immunity. Their land has now been recognised and their decline reversed, but goldminers are once again invading their territoryPhotograph: Victor Englebert/www.victorenglebert.com