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Latoya Abulu is an editor at Mongabay covering Indigenous news, nature-based solutions to climate change and stories about high conservation value ecosystems. You can reach her on Twitter @LatoyaAbulu

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Ecuador’s first Indigenous guard led by Kichwa women: Interview with María José Andrade Cerda

Astrid Arellano 23 Apr 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024
Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: The defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Laila Abu Shihab Vergara 8 Apr 2024
Ofelia Samboni an Indigenous Yanacona member and landowner in Monclart, holds a stone containing copper. The stone was found in the river close to the mining area. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Apr 2024

How to ‘stop mining before it starts’: Interview with community organizer Carlos Zorrilla

Liz Kimbrough 4 Apr 2024

Locals slam Zimbabwe for turning a blind eye to Chinese miner’s violations

Tatenda Chitagu 1 Apr 2024

Maydany Salcedo: the environmental defender who catches the ire of armed groups

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 1 Apr 2024
A car charging.

This year’s ranking of EV carmakers from most to least ‘clean’: Report

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2024
Drought in Bangladesh.

We need rapid response support for Indigenous peoples in the face of growing extreme weather events (commentary)

Joe Eisen 27 Mar 2024

Mining industry touts green pledges to attract talent, but Gen Z isn’t buying it

Dimitri Selibas 27 Mar 2024
Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024
Relief effort during the Ene River floods, March 2024.

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 26 Mar 2024
A camp in Banamwesi forest for the community monitoring team. Image courtesy of a local source.

Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company acts with impunity

Didier Makal, Latoya Abulu 25 Mar 2024
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024

Soraida Chindoy: the Indigenous guardian defending the sacred Putumayo mountains

Natalia Pedraza Bravo 19 Mar 2024
Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024
Kouanda Issiaka watering his mango plantation for extra income in Boromo, Burkina Faso.

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Aimee Gabay 7 Mar 2024

Global protected area policies spark conflicts with Mexico Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 5 Mar 2024
Quilombola leaders Edmilson Furquim (Dênis) and Elza Ursulino on the balcony of their home in the Bombas territory.

New precedent as Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim

Aimee Gabay 29 Feb 2024
Some of the villagers with their land title certificates.

Not waiting for the government, Myanmar’s Karen people register their own lands

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Feb 2024
A woman in Indonesia harvesting purun grass.

What principles should define natural climate solutions? A new study has some answers

Spoorthy Raman 20 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
Recently cleared land for an oil palm plantation in Peru.

Critics decry controversial bill that loosens deforestation restrictions in Peru

Aimee Gabay 9 Feb 2024
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

New agrarian courts in Colombia raise hopes for end to land conflicts

Aimee Gabay 7 Feb 2024
Véronique Sekuka, a Baka woman who was evicted from what is now Odzala-Kokoua National Park.

African Parks vows to investigate allegations of abuse at Congolese park

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024
A nomadic community preparing a meal in Ladakh, India.

‘Healthy humans without a healthy planet is a logical fallacy’: Interview with Dr. Sakib Burza

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 6 Feb 2024
Neem flowers

Ghana’s medicinal plants, the ‘first aid’ for communities, are under threat

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 2 Feb 2024
Bolivian red howler monkeys in Madidi Landscape.

New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia

Aimee Gabay 1 Feb 2024

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