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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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In Panama, an Indigenous kingdom fights for its right to the forest

Maxwell Radwin 4 Sep 2023

Big promises to Indigenous groups from new global nature fund — but will it deliver?

Spoorthy Raman 29 Aug 2023
Activist Duduzile Dludla of Makhasaneni, standing in front of her home and an umbombe or forest strangler-fig (Ficus natalensis)

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Dimitri Selibas 28 Aug 2023
A lemur leaf frog in Costa Rica.

New global biodiversity fund to restore nature worldwide by 2030 officially launches

Latoya Abulu 25 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2023

Zimbabwe sees recycling boom as waste picking becomes lucrative business

Tatenda Chitagu 21 Aug 2023
A humpback whale

Expected ship traffic to LNG Canada port could see whale deaths also rise

Spoorthy Raman 18 Aug 2023
Kono village chief Chris Magalan speaks to his community members about the Solwara 1 project in New Ireland province.

Deep-sea mining project in PNG resurfaces despite community opposition

John Cannon 18 Aug 2023
A sarus crane flies over an agricultural field.

Has the Buddha’s legacy in Nepal helped save sarus cranes?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Aug 2023
An oil-contaminated jagüeye in the El Jordán property.

Energy company evades oil clean up as spills continue to contaminate Colombian town

Catalina Sanabria Devia 17 Aug 2023
Volunteers clearing plastic trash gathered from river barriers. Image courtesy of Sam Benchegjib.

For International Youth Day, three youth conservation success stories

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 12 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Three new studies on Indigenous conservation for International Indigenous Peoples Day

Sandra Cuffe 9 Aug 2023

Study: Protecting marine life is a big benefit to local communities, too

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2023
A snow leopard captured on a camera trap.

When wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2023
The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023
Ibama seizes a shipment of illegally extracted Ipê

Study confirms surge in deforestation in Indigenous lands under Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 21 Jul 2023

What can solve growing conflicts between agricultural giants and communities in Cameroon?

Yannick Kenné 17 Jul 2023
Locals planting bamboo.

Villagers turn to charcoal made from bamboo to save a protected forest in Madagascar

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 7 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023
Fish farm in Saronic Gulf, off the Greek coast.

At sea as on land? Activists oppose industrial farming in U.S. waters

Edward Carver 26 Jun 2023
Women from the Maju Bersama KPPL plant ginger flowers

Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows

Dimitri Selibas 19 Jun 2023
At an assembly, the president of the Shuar Arutam People shows banners saying “No to mining.”

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study

Sandra Cuffe 19 Jun 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023
Farmers in the Lower Omo Valley.

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Kaleab Girma 13 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023
More than 5,000 Indigenous peoples participated in the 2023 Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) march in Brasilia on April 26, demanding the demarcation of Indigenous territories and the end of violence against Indigenous peoples. Image by Maiara Dourado / CIMI.

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence

Aimee Gabay 9 Jun 2023
A boreal owl, a single-brooded species.

Climate warming alters offspring production of birds, study shows

Neha Jain 8 Jun 2023
A giant anteater.

Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023

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