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Kuikuro men playing flutes.

The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger

Peter Speetjens 18 Oct 2023
Glicéria Tupinambá watches First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.

Brazilian Indigenous anthropologists turn the tables from ‘objects of study’ to active voices

Max Baring 20 Feb 2023

Elephant protector and fossil hunter Richard Leakey leaves outsized legacy in Kenya

Jeremy Hance 25 Jan 2022

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019
A life restoration of Hadropithecus stenognathus, an extinct species of lemur, based on fossil evidence. H. stenognathus is thought to have weighed between 27 and 35 kilograms (60 and 77 pounds), more than three times the size of the largest living species of lemur, the indri (Indri indri). Image by Smokeybjb via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Apr 2019

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018
This Globo television screenshot shows the museum on fire from above.

Brazil mourns ‘incalculable loss’ in National Museum fire

Genevieve Belmaker 4 Sep 2018

Extinct mammoths and rhinos portend a grim future in a warming climate

John Cannon 28 Mar 2017

Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Loving apes celebrated this Valentine’s Day

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2017

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Discovery of ‘Lost City’ spurs conservation pledge

Jeremy Hance 18 Mar 2015

By the bones: herring populations were superabundant before commercial fisheries

Nicholas Barrett 9 Jun 2014

Through careful management, indigenous people have shaped Asian rainforests for 11,000 years

Loren Bell 28 Jan 2014

Madagascar occupied by humans 2,500 years earlier than previously thought

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2013

Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare birds, rice wine, and talk of tigers

Howie Nielsen 14 Mar 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 5 Jul 2012

Traditional belief in mythical beasts help protect forests

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2012

Madagascar originally colonized by small group of Indonesians

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2012

Giant snakes commonly attacked modern hunter-gatherers in Philippines

Jeremy Hance 13 Dec 2011

Kesenjangan adat istiadat tradisional antara muda versus tua di Tana Toraja Indonesia

Oleh Tina Butler 19 Jun 2010

New Amazonian reserve saves over a million acres in Peru

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2009

Examining monkey tools: archaeology expands to include non-human primates

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Aug 2009

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

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2009

Rural depopulation to have biodiversity impacts

Mongabay.com 1 Dec 2008

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Aug 2008

Amazon conservation Team wins “Innovation in conservation Award” for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2007

New theory on the evolution of pygmies

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2007

A comprehensive look at the use of animals in Brazilian medicine

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2007

Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2007

Chocolate first used more than 3100 years ago

Mongabay.com 12 Nov 2007

Climate change drove human evolution

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2007

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