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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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Celebration of the 2020-2023 election period of the Sámi assemblies in 17 June 2022. Image by Kevin J. Francett / Kajastus Creative / Sámediggi Saamelaiskäräjät (the Sámi Parliament) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

John Last 21 Feb 2023
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
The dilapidated home of Ambroise Ondoa, local leader from Nkol-Bifouan, damaged by vibrations from the Febe village quarry. Image © Yannick Kenné.

Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals

Yannick Kenné 24 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023

Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jan 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022

COP15 deal needs a ‘holistic approach to conservation’: Q&A with Joan Carling and Ramiro Batzin

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2022
First Nations drummers at U.N. COP15 Nature and Culture summit. Image by UN Biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Amid struggling COP15 talks, Indigenous leaders from Canada offer some solutions

Chris Arsenault 14 Dec 2022
A women harvests leaves.

Indigenous peoples and communities drive climate finance reform

John Cannon 6 Dec 2022
11. Alda prepares branches of wild rosemary (Baccharis dracunculifolia) to use as a duster to keep bees away during handling. An essential plant for bees, the wild rosemary also has a great capacity for regeneration and can be successfully used in the recovery of degraded areas. Lar de Pesquisas Agroecológicas Abacateiro, Egídio Brunetto Agroecological Settlement, Lagoinha, Paraíba Valley, Brazil. Image by Inaê Guion.

Photos: Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success

Inaê Guion 2 Dec 2022
A Gbaya farmer in Mbanti-Mbang, on land left unscathed by the agro-industrial project / Image © Yannick Kenné.

To replace Western food imports, Cameroon gives community lands to ‘no-name’ agro-industry

Yannick Kenné 1 Dec 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Saliou Hassana, a 17-year-old gold miner, extracting and collecting gold nuggets using mercury at Kambélé III. Image © Yannick Kenné.

About 72% of gold miners poisoned with mercury at artisanal mining sites in Cameroon

Yannick Kenné 29 Nov 2022
Indigenous delegates at COP27 in Egypt. Image courtesy of UN climate change via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Words that didn’t make the cut: What happened to Indigenous rights at COP27

Dimitri Selibas 25 Nov 2022

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022
Pablo Sibas Sibas delivering a testimony at the HRD Memorial Vigil in Dublin, during the Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform 2022. Image by Kamil Krawczak

‘We go in and take Indigenous lands back from cattle ranchers’: Q&A with activist Pablo Sibar

Kimberley Brown 21 Nov 2022
Indigenous civil society and advocacy organizations discuss. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Institute.

After 14 years of advocacy, the DRC president finally signs new Indigenous peoples law (commentary)

Patrick Saidi Hemedi 16 Nov 2022
Plantation of bananas, teak and cocoa in Yanonge – DRC.  Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 16 Nov 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022
A member of an indigenous community in Putumayo watches over his community’s territory. Photo courtesy of Michelle Carrere.

As gangs battle over Peru’s drug trafficking routes, communities and forest are at risk

Michelle Carrere 8 Nov 2022
Eric Darragh, the co-director of Fire and Forestry for the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council, is pointing out burn sites  within the project area. Images by Carly Nairn.

Tribe and partners light up a forest to restore landscape in California

Carly Nairn 8 Nov 2022
A few meters from the monocultures of the multinational, an inhabitant keeps a small natural forest on his property. The fertility of the land has allowed diverse flora to grow and produce a prosperous biodiverse landscape. Residents say this is very different from monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantations where no plant diversity can be found.

Indigenous lands hold the world’s healthiest forests – but only when their rights are protected

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 7 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022
A rice farmer harvesting in rice fields.

There is not enough land to meet many of the world’s climate pledges, says new study

Sandra Cuffe 1 Nov 2022
Alice Gama looks at cracks that have developed on the wall of her house in Arda Transau, an area near Zimbabwe’s Chiadzwa diamond fields. Image courtesy Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe. Image courtesy of Evidence Chenjerai.

Broken houses and promises: residents still in poverty near massive diamond project

Anna Majavu 24 Oct 2022
Tewe Dayuma Michela Conta, one of the girls kidnapped from the Tagaeri and Taromenane territory, speak during the trial. Image courtesy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict

Kimberley Brown 13 Oct 2022
Fishmongers in the Ndji village market get by with very little. Image by Yannick Kenné.

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Yannick Kenné 13 Oct 2022

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