Kimberley Brown

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Kim is a freelance writer and video journalist based in Quito, Ecuador. She has been living in Latin America and covering regional society and politics - with the occasional environmental story - for years.

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Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 22 Jan 2025

Can scientific illustration help save species in the rainforest?

Kimberley Brown, Victor Mendez 11 Mar 2024

Report shows loss of natural land cover in Ecuador — and where it can still be saved

Kimberley Brown 17 Jan 2024

Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal gray area in environmental consultation

Kimberley Brown 18 Dec 2023

Ecuadorian farmers protest against a new environmental consultation process and an open-pit mine

Kimberley Brown, Victor Mendez 12 Dec 2023
Protesters traveled from Las Naves, and across the country, to protest mining activities in their communities in front of the Constitutional Court, during a hearing to debate Decree 754 on September 18, 2023.

Tensions flare as Ecuador’s environment consultation process is put to the test

Kimberley Brown 16 Oct 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
A giant anteater.

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

Kimberley Brown 6 Jun 2023

Forest conservation efforts in Peru are failing across the board, study says

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2023

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

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023

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

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023
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Indigenous Kogi worldview aims to change face of conservation for good

Kimberley Brown 18 Jan 2023
Aerial view of expansive natural lands in Peru. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Peru is tackling water scarcity with nature-based solutions, leading the way in Latin America

Kimberley Brown 29 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
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

Alternatives to farmwork empower communities and save forests, study finds

Kimberley Brown 10 Oct 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2022

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Kimberley Brown 15 Jun 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

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

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022
Waorani women

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

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue

Kimberley Brown 17 Nov 2021

Ecuador’s consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope

Kimberley Brown 4 Nov 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021
Ancestral trees of the Sarayaku community, located in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Patricia Gualinga.

Human rights must be at heart of new biodiversity framework, experts say

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2021

Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity

Kimberley Brown 20 Oct 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020
Indigenous Waorani marching to the judicial office Friday April 26 to hear the ruling for their lawsuit against the government. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Latin America unites to fight global inequalities in new regional pact

Kimberley Brown 27 Aug 2020

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020
The passenger boat that sits empty and unused outside of Andres Machoa’s home in Llanchama, a symbol of unfulfilled promises by the oil industry. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

Life on the Amazon oil frontier: From exploration to ecotourism

Kimberley Brown 2 Aug 2019

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Beach on Mioskon Island in Raja Ampat. Photo by Rhett Bulter/Mongabay.
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