Update:

Colin Firth had been due to take part, but was forced to pull out after he was stranded in Italy following the volcanic eruption in Iceland which grounded flights across Europe.

23 March 2010, UK

The anthology ‘We are One’ is a collection of statements from the world’s tribal peoples, from the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, to the semi-nomadic Penan of Malaysia and the Innu of Canada’s sub-arctic tundra. These are supported by powerful essays and extracts from Richard Gere, Zac Goldsmith, Colin Firth, Bruce Parry, Jane Goodall, Joanna Lumley, Damien Hirst, Satish Kumar, Tony Juniper, Jonathan Porritt, Arundhati Roy, A.C. Grayling, Laurens van der Post, Doris Pilkington-Garimara, and many others.

The book is illustrated with photographs by leading photojournalists, including: Sebastiao Salgado, Mike Goldwater, Steve McCurry, Mirella Ricciardi, Carol Beckwith, Yann-Arthus Bertrand, Tim Allen, Claudia Andujar.

We Are One celebrates the lives, homelands, rituals, languages, ideas and values of tribal peoples and explores the relevance of their knowledge and beliefs to the present time. It is both a portrait of the beauty and diversity of tribal peoples, and a call to arms that examines many of the contemporary humanitarian and environmental issues inherent in their fight for survival.

Survival is proud to announce ‘WE ARE ONE – a celebration of tribal peoples’, a fundraising evening in aid of Survival International created and directed by Olivier Award winning actor Mark Rylance, on Sunday 18 April at the Apollo Theatre in London.

This unique theatrical event is inspired by the words and images of tribal peoples featured in the recently published book ‘WE ARE ONE – a celebration of tribal peoples’, created and edited by Jo Eede and published by Quadrille Publishing, to mark the 40th anniversary of Survival.

20 November 2003:

'Love Actually' star Colin Firth condemns Bushman evictions

Colin Firth, star of the major new film 'Love Actually', has condemned the Botswana government's eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Speaking at a London preview of the film this week, he said, 'There is now what can only be described as an intimidation campaign to get the Bushmen off their land – land which they have lived on for millennia. Their water supply has been destroyed, and they've been shifted off to relocation camps where the lives they've known are basically over.' Colin Firth has been an active supporter of tribal peoples' rights for many years. He says of the Bushmen, 'These people are not the remnants of a past era who need to be brought up to date.

Those who are able to continue to live on the land that is rightfully theirs are facing the 21st century with a confidence that many of us in the so-called developed world can only envy.'

'Love Actually', tipped by UK newspaper 'The Sun' as 'the best Brit flick ever', opens today. Colin Firth has previously starred in 'Bridget Jones's Diary', 'The English Patient', and the BBC dramatisation of 'Pride and Prejudice'.