Forest people News

RSS
601 stories

Orangutan death in Sumatra points to human-wildlife conflict, illegal trade

Ayat S. Karokaro, Sri Wahyuni 6 Mar 2023
Karen men walk with their elephants.

‘You don’t kill people to protect forests’: New Thai parks chief raises alarm

Kannikar Petchkaew 27 Feb 2023
Herders in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report

John Cannon 12 Feb 2023
A women harvests leaves.

Indigenous peoples and communities drive climate finance reform

John Cannon 6 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s orangutans declining amid ‘lax’ and ‘laissez-faire’ law enforcement

Basten Gokkon 25 Nov 2022

Despite pledges, obstacles stifle community climate and conservation funding

John Cannon 23 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022
Tree nursery

Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2022
A fisherman collects shrimp in Khulna, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh ban on resource hunting in Sundarbans leaves communities facing hardship

Abu Siddique 30 May 2022
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 May 2022
Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022
NASA satellite image of the Rio Tapajos in March 2022.

Dams on Brazil’s Jamanxim River: The advancing assault on the environment and Indigenous peoples in the Tapajós basin (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 29 Mar 2022
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous land rights take center stage in a new global framework for biodiversity conservation (commentary)

Karl Burkart 24 Mar 2022

Can a reforestation project stop land grabs? Villagers in the DRC give it a try

Didier Makal 17 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Indigenous-led report warns against ‘simplistic take on conservation’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Mar 2022

Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities

Agustín del Castillo 3 Mar 2022
Kenya forest service

Indigenous communities uncertain over proposed change to Kenyan forest law

Kang-Chun Cheng 21 Feb 2022
Kahuzi-Biega National Park

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

Sushil Raj; Dr. Albert Kwokwo Barume 17 Feb 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022
Mark Plotkin with an Embera shaman in the Darien on the Colombia-Panama. Photo credit: Amazon Conservation Team

Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Jan 2022
Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022
Park rangers

What went wrong with conservation at Kahuzi-Biega National Park and how to transform it (commentary)

Deborah S. Rogers 27 Jan 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

How can illegal timber trade in the Greater Mekong be stopped?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Dec 2021

How does political instability in the Mekong affect deforestation?

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Dec 2021

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021
Long-house at Sungai Utik, an Iban community in West Kalimantan that has successfully defended its customary forests against loggers. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Climate efforts won’t succeed without secure community rights, says Nonette Royo

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Dec 2021
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021

In Brazil, an agribusiness haven’s green pivot leaves many skeptical

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Nov 2021

you're currently offline