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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

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows

Sue Branford 9 Jun 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 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

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020
Kanamari indigenous child in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas state, one of the most vulnerable indigenous reserves to COVID-19, according to an analysis by the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), a Brazilian NGO. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis

Ignacio Amigo 29 Apr 2020

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

Karlston Lapniten 21 Apr 2020
IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, Sri Lankans find solace in traditional practices

Malaka Rodrigo 13 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020
Waimiri-Atroari indigenous village, where the Kinja indigenous people live in the northernmost state of Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon. A federal judge has ordered government websites to publish a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30 days as part of their right of response to racist rhetoric by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Image by Maiká Schwade/CPT Amazonas

Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective

Shanna Hanbury 7 Apr 2020

Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2020
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image by heath department of Santo Antônio do Içá.

First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Apr 2020

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

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020
Guarani indigenous people protest against real estate speculation in a lot close to Jaraguá indigenous reserve in São Paulo. Image by Tommaso Protti for Mongabay

Housing project puts São Paulo’s remaining Atlantic Forest at risk

Tiffany Higgins, Tommaso Protti 27 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

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Sue Branford 5 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020

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

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

Murders of indigenous leaders in Brazilian Amazon hits highest level in two decades

Shanna Hanbury 14 Dec 2019

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

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Why is Europe rewilding with water buffalo?

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2019

New film reveals at-risk ‘uncontacted’ Awá tribe in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 1 Aug 2019

Complicating the narrative about indigenous communities and their struggles (insider)

Kimberley Brown 18 Jul 2019

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

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Apr 2019

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