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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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Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj; Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022
Canada marine

In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research

Moira Donovan 15 Feb 2022
Q'eqchi ownership of the land.

Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court

Sandra Cuffe 9 Feb 2022

Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk

Shanna Hanbury 9 Feb 2022
Waorani women

Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022
Dakota pipeline protest

Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

Laurel Sutherland 2 Feb 2022

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

Displaced and deprived, Indigenous communities suffer from hunger in Nicaragua

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022
Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022
Indigenous salmon fishers

Alaskan Indigenous leaders fear impacts on salmon streams by mining project

Laurel Sutherland 26 Jan 2022
Female environmental activist

‘Rural women in Zimbabwe are in constant contact with climate change’: Q&A with Shamiso Mupara

Derick Matsengarwodzi 20 Jan 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022
Mangrove forest Kenya

Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time

Joyce Chimbi 10 Jan 2022
Indigenous woman potato

Indigenous food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind (commentary)

Yon Fernandez-de-Larrinoa 6 Jan 2022

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021
Rising water levels Kenya

Sinkholes emerge in rural Kenya after series of floods, droughts

Kang-Chun Cheng 30 Dec 2021
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021
Mapping activities Indigenous

Guyanese project to bolster Indigenous land rights draws funding — and flak

Carinya Sharples 23 Dec 2021
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021
Winter reindeer

In the Arctic, Indigenous Sámi keep life centered on reindeer herding

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2021
Embera woman within the forest

Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2021
Maya Indigenous man farming

Unique Indigenous Maya food system blends cropping techniques in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Dec 2021

First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra

Nick Rodway 14 Dec 2021

An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 13 Dec 2021

Indigenous communities in South Africa sue, protest off-shore oil and gas exploration

Victoria Schneider 10 Dec 2021

In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods

Maxwell Radwin 8 Dec 2021
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021

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