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A feathered cape bridges past and present for Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinambá

Matheus Lopes Quirino 4 Mar 2024
An anemone fish in Hong Kong's coral reefs.

Hong Kong as a reef fish haven? These scientists want to get the word out

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Feb 2024
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Postponement of century-old Indian Science Congress sparks controversy

Niladry Sarkar 15 Feb 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
Juanita Torremocha harvests a medicinal herb in her backyard, located near Mount Bandilaan National Park at the heart of Siquijor Island.

Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024
Sarah Oginga harvesting papyrus reeds.

Livelihoods at stake as Lake Victoria’s papyrus swamps come under pressure: Photos

Patrick Newcombe 5 Feb 2024
Neem flowers

Ghana’s medicinal plants, the ‘first aid’ for communities, are under threat

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 2 Feb 2024
Bolivian red howler monkeys in Madidi Landscape.

New fund supports Indigenous-led land management in biodiverse area of Bolivia

Aimee Gabay 1 Feb 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024
Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024

Indigenous women filmmakers form collective, using cameras to fight for rights

Matheus Lopes Quirino 23 Jan 2024
A farmer plucks moringa leaves.

Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution

Abu Siddique 22 Jan 2024

Guyana Amerindian communities fear Venezuela’s move to annex oil-rich region

Aimee Gabay 17 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

Con Chim: A window into Vietnam’s past and future beyond rice fields

Giang Pham, Sonal Gupta 16 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Raising awareness about fishing cats during an education program.

Conservationists in Nepal say government must step up in coming years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023

Where do illegal lion parts come from? A new tool offers answers

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2023
Since 2014, Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou have worked with Indigenous communities in Cambodia's Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary to identify species of flora and their uses to the communities. Image by Nerea Turreira-Garcia and Dimitris Argyriou.

‘Immense body of knowledge’ at stake in Cambodia’s Prey Lang as deforestation soars

Gerald Flynn 13 Dec 2023
Chörtens right outside the walled city of Lo Manthang. Image by Jean-Marie Hullot via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 Deed).

Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Dec 2023
Delio de Jesús Suárez Gómez has become a bee expert. He is 58 years old, belongs to the Tucano peoples, and has turned to meliponiculture to help secure the future of his community and the surrounding forest. Image by Jose Guarnizo.

The man who made a pact with wild bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Jose Guarnizo 1 Dec 2023

Amazon women create sweet business success with wild, vitamin-C packed fruit

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 9 Nov 2023
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Image by Dr. Jonathan Moore.

To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman 6 Nov 2023
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Radhavato Devi training an Indigenous woman to make sari with banana fiber.

Banana fiber sari offers sustainable, biodegradable alternative in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 20 Oct 2023
Participants in an eelgrass coring workshop gather sediment cores from an eelgrass meadow, which will be used to establish how long the carbon stored by eelgrass stays locked away.

First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass

Moira Donovan 22 Sep 2023
Jerry Lotawa.

‘The forest is so much more than money’: Q&A with Fijian carbon project ranger Jerry Lotawa

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Photos: Fiji’s first Indigenous-owned carbon credit project

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Brazilian Indigenous artists take the forest to the world

Matheus Lopes Quirino 29 Aug 2023

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