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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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Nepal Chepan Community house razed

Razing of Indigenous hamlet highlights Nepal’s conservation challenge

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands is “impossible”, says report

Dimitri Selibas 1 Apr 2022
A group of community workers from the Ejido Santa Ana rest after a day working in the forest. Image courtesy of UCDFI Topia, S.C.

Opium production down as communities in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to forestry

Rodrigo Soberanes 29 Mar 2022
This Vezo fisherman had just speared an octopus. Behind him, the water is discolored by the the ink the octopus had released to try to protect itself. Photo © Garth Cripps / Blue Ventures.

‘Marine conservation talks must include human rights’: Q&A with biologist Vivienne Solís Rivera

Kimberley Brown 28 Mar 2022

‘We have a full pharmacopoeia of plants’: Q&A with Māori researcher Nicola Macdonald

Monica Evans 18 Mar 2022

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022
Smithsonian Museum field work

Pandemic hit the pause button on the discoveries of new species

Niranjana Rajalakshmi 16 Mar 2022
Zimbabwe farmer seed

Farmers rediscover benefits of traditional small grains in Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chitagu 15 Mar 2022

Gold rush in Ecuador’s Amazon region threatens 1,500 communities

Aimee Gabay 11 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

‘Small-scale fishers have a Ph.D. in the ocean’: Q&A with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Mar 2022

Indigenous-led report warns against ‘simplistic take on conservation’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Mar 2022

Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities

Agustín del Castillo 3 Mar 2022
New Zealand Maori

Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier

Monica Evans 25 Feb 2022
Kenya

In Kenya, a community regrew its forest — and redefined reforestation success

Jackson Okata 24 Feb 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022
lithium mine

At a disputed Native massacre site, tribes brace for a new, lithium-driven rush

Carly Nairn 23 Feb 2022
Kenya forest service

Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law

Kang-Chun Cheng 21 Feb 2022

Afro-Colombian community safeguards pristine oceans with new protected area

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2022

Tanzania, siding with UAE firm, plans to evict Maasai from ancestral lands

Laurel Sutherland 18 Feb 2022

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022
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

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