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Bonga enjoying the feeling of the cooler part of our walk through the forest one afternoon in 2018. Copyright Ana Verahrami/Elephant Listening Project.

To conserve the vibrant diversity of Central Africa’s forests, include Indigenous people (commentary)

Anahita Verahrami 16 May 2022
New Zealand Maori

Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier

Monica Evans 25 Feb 2022

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

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra

Nick Rodway 14 Dec 2021

Indonesian couple stages ‘ecological wedding’ in hopes of inspiring others

Ebed de Rosary 4 Nov 2021

Indigenous guides warn of repercussions if we don’t fix our relationship with nature

Tracy L. Barnett; Hernán Vilchez 28 Oct 2021

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

Bong S. Sarmiento 28 Oct 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021

Land dispute turns violent as Sumatran Indigenous groups clash with pulpwood firm

Ayat S. Karokaro 17 Jun 2021

In Madagascar, cultural taboos can protect or harm the environment

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 25 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021

‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city

Karla Mendes 12 Apr 2021

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020

In Sri Lanka, a South American flower usurps a tree sacred to Buddhists and Hindus

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020

Shamans in the city: Brazil clinic offers traditional Amazonian treatments

Débora Menezes 9 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation

Nurdin Tubaka 12 Mar 2020

Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Justin Catanoso 17 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

COP25: Laura Vargas inspires with power of faith in defense of forests

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2019

Interfaith leaders step up to protect the world’s ‘sacred’ rainforests

Justin Catanoso 17 Sep 2019

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