Sonam Lama Hyolmo

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Sonam Lama Hyolmo is a staff writer at Mongabay and a Kathmandu-based multimedia journalist writing at the intersection of environment, Indigenous rights, climate science, and conservation.

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A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024

Battsengel Lkhamdoorov stands next to one of the summer quarters built by Oyu Tolgoi.

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 Aug 2024

Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024

Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024

Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024

Local and International organizations participated in the plantation.

Uzbekistan plants a forest where a sea once lay

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 May 2024

A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

Are carbon credits another resource-for-cash grab? Interview with Alondra Cerdes Morales & Samuel Nguiffo

Latoya Abulu, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 May 2024

Indigenous people with sled dogs in Greenland.

Plastic pollution talks end & Arctic peoples return home to a ‘sink’ of plastic

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 May 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

Women carrying saplings.

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

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 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

Indigenous Tolupan people cultivating crops in Yoro, Honduras

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Mar 2024

Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024

Gharial conservation plan leaves Nepal fishing communities searching for new jobs

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 28 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 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

Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024

A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024

Forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on Mutton’s pelt measurements and archaeological remains. Image courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

How a 160-year-old pelt piqued new findings on Indigenous ‘woolly dog’ breed

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Dec 2023

Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Community tropical forest management linked to social & environmental benefits: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Dec 2023

Chörtens right outside the walled city of Lo Manthang. Image by Jean-Marie Hullot via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 Deed).

Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Dec 2023

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Java activists risk jail for exposing shrimp farm pollution crisis.

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