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Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024
Illegal mining is spreading in the Amazonian rivers that enter the Madidi National Park in Bolivia.

A national park and its rangers in Bolivia endure persisting road construction, illegal mining

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 Aug 2024

Petroperú’s financial troubles could mean no oil spill remediation, communities fear

Aimee Gabay 15 Aug 2024
Maasai women at their village in Kenya. Image by Matt Biddulph via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Community consultations must also include women — not just men (commentary)

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu 14 Aug 2024
Small-scale miner using mercury while gold panning at an informal mine operation in Paracale, Camarines Norte, Philippines.

Can nations ever get artisanal gold mining right?

Aimee Gabay 13 Aug 2024

Communities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land rights bill

Maxwell Radwin 13 Aug 2024
Image de banniere : Travailleurs de PHC avec des gallons de pesticides dans la plantation de Yaligimba. Image © Luciana Téllez/Human Rights Watch

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Yannick Kenné 12 Aug 2024
A yak pasture in the Lungbasamba landscape.

Reporting confirms alleged Indigenous rights violations in Nepal hydropower project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo and Latoya Abulu 12 Aug 2024
A farmer walks with his cattle past agricultural farms.

Colombia’s coca substitution program failing to help farmers or slow deforestation

Aimee Gabay 9 Aug 2024

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Aug 2024
Aerial view of the Manono concession area. Image by AVZ (Fair Use).

Disputed Manono lithium mining project in DRC sparks concern

Didier Makal 8 Aug 2024
Fraser Valley as seen from Sumas Mountain.

Climate change could return a stolen lake to Indigenous people, a century later

Olivia Ferrari 7 Aug 2024
Children are invited to guess the type of medicinal plant from its aroma.

Sumatra community school hands down ancient knowledge to modern generation

Teguh Suprayitno 7 Aug 2024
Gisele Martin, Hayden Seitcher, and Hughie Watts from Tseshaht nation — blessing the garden, carrying out a small ceremony to honor the land and ocean to ensure the garden's success and to respect their traditions.

On Canada’s West Coast, clam gardening builds resilience among Indigenous youth

Robyn Huang 6 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Aug 2024
A protest in Phungling, a town of 29,000 people, where roads, restaurants and businesses were closed entirely.

In Nepal, a cable car in a sacred forest sparks swift, and controversial, direct action

Alice Millington 31 Jul 2024
Youth activists rejecting cattle farming on Trangan Island.

Magnate’s visit to Indonesia’s untouched Aru Islands revives Indigenous concerns

Christ Belseran 31 Jul 2024

New Indigenous reserve in the Amazon among first steps to protect peoples in isolation

Astrid Arellano 31 Jul 2024
Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 2024

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2024
Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon observed the extent of river damage due to gold mining.

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Fernanda Wenzel 26 Jul 2024
From left: Florinda Zurdo, Silvia Salina and Patricia Mendoza stand in a plot of land near ASASTRAN’s site in Lajero where traditional medicine is cultivated.

Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health

Adam D. Williams 25 Jul 2024
Aerial view of rust-red roofs of the town of Jorkporlorsue in the bottom left, surrounded dark green crowns of rubber trees owned by Socfin's Salala plantation in the rest of the frame. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Troubled rubber plantation in Liberia shuts down after labor unrest

Ashoka Mukpo 25 Jul 2024

Short on funds and long on risk, Venezuelan conservation groups worry for future

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jul 2024

Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon combat droughts and floods

Iván Paredes Tamayo 25 Jul 2024

In Cambodia, Indigenous villagers lose forest & land amid carbon offset project

Jack Brook 24 Jul 2024

Beleaguered Indonesian civil society gets lift in push for just energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2024

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