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Chief Patiburi Pataxó stands on the beach of the reclaimed Quero-Ver community.

Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders

Sarah Sax and Hanna Wallis 31 Mar 2023
Jashodhar Pramanik.

Jashodhon Pramanik: The farmer guardian of birds in Bangladesh

Maksuda Aziz 30 Mar 2023

‘Hope is action.’ David Suzuki retires into a life of determined activism

Richard Schiffman 28 Mar 2023

When a red snapper is more than just a fish: Q&A fisheries scientist Elle Wibisono

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2023

‘They will not put us in a display case’: Q&A with Indigenous artist Daiara Tukano

Mariana Della Barba 15 Mar 2023
A logging truck through deforested lands.

Make it local: Deforestation link to less Amazon rainfall tips activism shift

Sarah Brown 14 Mar 2023

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Victoria Schneider 13 Mar 2023

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Mongabay.com 8 Mar 2023
Community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration program in Indonesia.

Young Indonesian climate leaders demand safe future in new book

Warief Djajanto Basorie 6 Mar 2023

Forests & finance: A lawsuit, an import ban, and restoring Zambian forests

Mongabay.com 23 Feb 2023
A Siamese fireback.

Vietnam’s environmental NGOs face uncertain status, shrinking civic space

Hướng Thiện 13 Feb 2023
Oceanographer Canyon, creating an ideal microhabitat for a deep-water coral community and a couple of octopus. Image courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, 2013 Northeast U.S. Canyons Expedition.

Win for science as BP pressured into cleaning up offshore gas plans

Elodie Toto 9 Feb 2023

Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2023
Kelly Banda (center, standing) with volunteers and community members.

‘The Mangrove Guy’: Q&A with Kelly Roberts Banda, Kenya’s lawyer-conservationist

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 2 Feb 2023
Humboldt penguins in Peru. Image by Víctor Bautista via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)

Daniel Gajardo 24 Jan 2023
Sonia Guajajara

Sonia Guajajara: Turnaround from jail threats to Minister of Indigenous Peoples

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2023
Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira (left) and Nelly Marubo.

‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy

Max Baring 23 Jan 2023
A member of the Pataxó community.

Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Karla Mendes 20 Jan 2023

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

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023

In Ecuador, communities protecting a ‘terrestrial coral reef’ face a mining giant

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2023

‘We are digital guerrilla fighters’: Q&A with young Indigenous activist Samela Sateré Mawé

Carolina Conti 23 Dec 2022

Five pressing questions for the future of lithium mining in Bolivia

Maxwell Radwin 12 Dec 2022
Wide shot of scattered buildings on green hills, a mountain on the horizon. Image by Victoria Schneider for Mongabay.

In South Africa, a community says no after a coal miner said go

Victoria Schneider 28 Nov 2022
A boy playing near Tendele's washing plant: the coal mine has impacted life in the community. Image by Rob Symon via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst

Anna Majavu 28 Nov 2022
Wader chick

Probe finds Vietnam faltering in bid to curb wildlife trade, animal suffering

Carolyn Cowan 23 Nov 2022
Lowland forest

Myanmar communities decry disempowerment as forest guardians since 2021 coup

Carolyn Cowan 17 Nov 2022

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

Elizabeth Oliveira 26 Oct 2022

Brazil’s biggest elected Indigenous caucus to face tough 2023 Congress

Karla Mendes 25 Oct 2022
Activists and Indigenous peoples holding a protest.

Southern Philippine coal project moves ahead despite community opposition

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Oct 2022

How an Indigenous family under siege became a symbol of resistance in the Amazon

Elizabeth Oliveira 18 Oct 2022

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