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A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Alleged torturers roam free as Indonesia struggles to bring charges in palm oil slavery case

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2023
Manoka, Cameroon: solitary fisher with a fish in their right hand, stepping away from three canoes beached on a shimmering mudflat, to a concrete jetty in the bottom right. Image by Christophe Nyemeck Beat

Element Africa: offshore oil threatens fisheries, gold mining topples homes and forests

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2023
Farmers in the Lower Omo Valley.

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Kaleab Girma 13 Jun 2023

Landfill in Colombia continues to pollute protected wetlands despite court-ordered clean-up

Maxwell Radwin 12 Jun 2023
More than 5,000 Indigenous peoples participated in the 2023 Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) march in Brasilia on April 26, demanding the demarcation of Indigenous territories and the end of violence against Indigenous peoples. Image by Maiara Dourado / CIMI.

Indigenous groups turn to Brazil’s highest court to stop police violence

Aimee Gabay 9 Jun 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

We must center gender and community rights for climate action (commentary)

Coraina de la Plaza & Valentina Figuera Martínez 8 Jun 2023
Park rangers

Warfare for wildlife: Q&A with Rosaleen Duffy

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Jun 2023

Militarized conservation: Insecurity for some, security for others? (commentary)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lorenzo Pellegrini 6 Jun 2023
Chiang Mai lawsuit

Citizens demand sustainable solution to haze crisis in northern Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 6 Jun 2023
Brazilian President Lula met U.S. President Joe Biden in February.

Boosted with fresh donations, Amazon Fund reboots stalled projects

André Schröder 5 Jun 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023
Kwegu fishing in the Omo River

Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley

John Cannon, Kaleab Girma 16 May 2023
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
Villagers seeking shelter following the March 2021 airstrikes at an IDP camp within the Salween Peace Park. Image courtesy of KESAN.

Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 15 May 2023
African elephant eating savanna grass in Tanzania. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Maasai conservationist strives to protect Indigenous rights because ‘land is life’ (commentary)

Dismas Partalala 2 May 2023
(Left to right) Minister of State for Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger, Wellington Dias, Minister of State for Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Wafunai, Joênia Pichan, during the 19th edition of Camp Terra Livre (ATL), 2023. Image by Palácio do Planalto (Brazil presidential palace) via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Brazil’s President Lula recognizes six Indigenous lands, and says more to come

Jenny Gonzales 1 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023
Nevada lithium battery

Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights

Sarah Sax 21 Apr 2023

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023
Tanzania protest Ngorongoro

Indigenous Maasai ask the United Nations to intervene on reported human rights abuses

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco

Aimee Gabay 13 Apr 2023

Study: Women, youths can be more effective at driving sustainable farming changes

Basten Gokkon 7 Apr 2023
Rio Tinto company logo on helmet.

After 150 years of damage to people and planet, Rio Tinto ‘must be held to account’ (commentary)

Saul Jones 5 Apr 2023
A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)

Meg Perret 31 Mar 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023
A cobalt mine in central Africa.

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Malavika Vyawahare 30 Mar 2023
Fishers pull in nets on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

Carolyn Cowan 29 Mar 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

Tania Li 29 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023

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