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In Peru, Yine women show how defending the Amazon supports local livelihoods

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

‘Culture & nature are one’: Interview with Mudja Chief Bitini Ndiyanabo Kanane

To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning

In the Brazilian Amazon, decentralization can be a double-edged sword

‘It’s our garden’: PNG villages fight to prevent mine waste dumping in the sea

‘Breathe … that’s nature within you’: Interview with Indigenous activist Taily Terena

Stars & lighthouses: Marine conservation that blends Pacific Islander wisdom and Western knowledge (commentary)

EU appetite for EVs drives new wave of deforestation in tropical forests

Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

The reaches, limits and (alleged) biases of feasibility studies and environmental licenses

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

In a big win, Yurok Nation reclaims vital creek and watershed to restore major salmon run

Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

A fragile win as Indonesia cancels high-risk mine permit after court ruling

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

In Nepal, confrontation looms over controversial cable car project as court lifts stay order

Community conservancies in Kyrgyzstan see conservation success against illegal hunting

Meet Pedro Porras, the priest who first rediscovered Amazon ancient cities

Impacts of development come under higher scrutiny in the Pan Amazon

In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

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