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A Dayak elder with a young member in Sungai Utik.

Borneo’s ‘omen birds’ find a staunch guardian in Indigenous Dayak Iban elders

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 15 Nov 2024
Oracle in Rumtse village, Ladakh, India, where decision-making involves spirits of the land and water.

If all life mattered, what would decision-making look like? (Analysis)

Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari 25 Oct 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024

DNA testing proves that cocoa originated in the Amazon and reveals robust pre-Columbian trade

Sibélia Zanon 29 Jul 2024
Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024
Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022
Elder Donny Abdullah in yellow hi-vis and ranger Kenny Spratt

‘Bring back burning culture’ to save seabirds: Q&A with Wudjari ranger Jennell Reynolds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 May 2022

Māori push for pandemic stimulus spend to save ancestral forest

Monica Evans 11 Jun 2020

In a Philippine indigenous stronghold, traditions keep COVID-19 at bay

Karlston Lapniten 21 Apr 2020

Reviving an ancient way of aquaculture at Hawaii’s Heʻeia fishpond

Shannon Brown 20 Apr 2020
This Globo television screenshot shows the museum on fire from above.

Brazil mourns ‘incalculable loss’ in National Museum fire

Genevieve Belmaker 4 Sep 2018
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Conserving the World’s Remaining Intact Forests (commentary)

Michael Painter and David Wilkie 25 Jul 2017

A Sumatran king’s 1,400-year-old vision for sustainable landscape planning

Taufik Wijaya 27 Mar 2017

Pre-Columbian Amazon settlement primarily ate fish — more sustainable?

Claire Salisbury 8 Jul 2016

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

Prehistoric Peruvians enjoyed popcorn

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2012

Evidence mounts that Maya did themselves in through deforestation

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2011

Destructive farming practices of early civilization may have altered climate long before industrial era

Jeremy Hance 31 Aug 2009

African pygmies diverged from other humans 60,000 years ago

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2009

Chocolate has been a delicacy north of Mexico for a thousand years

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2009

Killers of renowned anthropologist sentenced in Brazil

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2007

Peanuts, cotton, squash first farmed in Peru 6,000-10,000 years ago

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2007

Polynesians brought chickens to Americas before Columbus

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jun 2007

Did asteroid wipe out America’s first people?

Mongabay.com 17 May 2007

Ancient Amazonian technology could save the world

Mongabay.com 17 May 2007

Amazon rainforest fires date back thousands of years

Rhett A. Butler 14 Mar 2007

Chili peppers came from Ecuadorian rainforests 6,100 years ago

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2007

Lost civilization found in Peru

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2007

Bison-hunting Plains indians more advanced than thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2006

Amazon Stonehenge suggests advanced ancient rainforest culture

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2006

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