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IBAMA raid to fight illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima in December 2023. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

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

Elizabeth Oliveira 29 May 2025

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

Clarissa Levy from Agência Pública 28 May 2025
Image courtesy of Lucy Calderón/EcoLogic Development Fund.

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

Marco Acevedo 28 May 2025
Limbu locals stage protest against the project. Image courtesy of Mukkumlung Protection and Struggle Committee.

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

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 27 May 2025
Horseback patrolling in a community-based conservancy

Community conservancies in Kyrgyzstan see conservation success against illegal hunting

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 May 2025
he Upano River, in the Morona Santiago Province in Ecuador. Image courtesy of Galo Zapata-Ríos/WCS (CC BY-NC 2.0)

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

Peter Speetjens 26 May 2025
Banner image: Photos of human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca, who disappeared last year in Mexico. Photo by Luis Rojas via Global Witness.

Environmental defenders targeted in 3 out of 4 human rights attacks: Report

Kristine Sabillo 23 May 2025

Impacts of development come under higher scrutiny in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 May 2025
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute scientist Danny Hernández Cuadra smiles at a small vial of stingless bees she collected for research.

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

Marlowe Starling 22 May 2025
Helni Gopi (left) with her companions bringing a variety of their harvests back from the pampa forest.

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 May 2025

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

Wahyu Chandra 22 May 2025
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle leading cultural mapping exercises with Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation citizens Ryan Petersen and Zack Everitt at the community’s Land of Plenty cultural camp in 2019. Image courtesy of Elaine Cordon.

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

Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, Natasha Ayoub, Katie Fraser 20 May 2025
The proximity with non-Indigenous culture and lack of economic alternatives make some young Mundurukus turn to illegal mining.

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

Fernanda Wenzel, Karla Mendes 20 May 2025
cattle Brazil

New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

Carla Ruas 20 May 2025

Republic of Congo’s gold mining boom undermines conservation efforts

Mongabay.com 16 May 2025

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

Ana Norman Bermúdez 15 May 2025
A man herds goats in the town of Gotu in Isiolo county, Kenya. Image by Ashoka Mukpo/Mongabay.

Kenyan soil carbon project suspended for a second time

Ashoka Mukpo 15 May 2025
Banner image of an Iban woman in Sarawak, Malaysia, courtesy of Luciana Téllez-Chávez/Human Rights Watch.

Malaysian timber company accused of abuse & rights violations: Report

Kristine Sabillo 14 May 2025
Fishers camp in grass shelters at Mbenje Island, which is located 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the beachshore of Lake Malawi, in a cluster of fivesix islands. – Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Community-led system boosts fisheries in a corner of fast-depleting Lake Malawi

Mongabay.com 14 May 2025

African Parks acknowledges abuse by park staff in Congo, but withholds full report

Bobby Bascomb 13 May 2025
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on April 21, 2025. Image by Tailyr Irvine/Grist.

At the U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous peoples

Anna V. Smith 9 May 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Aimee Gabay 9 May 2025
Aeta women read a book.

Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

Michael Beltran 9 May 2025
Sueli Maxakali in front of a reforested hill. Image by Xavier Bartaburu/Mongabay.

Global prize longlists Mongabay feature on Maxakali reforestation in Brazil

Mongabay.com 8 May 2025
Tsimi Judith harvesting the Gnetum (okok) in the village of Minwoho, Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon.

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 May 2025

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 May 2025
Yao honey-hunter Seliano Rucunua holds a wild honeyguide that guided him to a bees’ nest; the bird was briefly captured for research, then released. Image courtesy of David Lloyd-Jones.

Malice or memory lapse? Why honeyguides sometimes lead hunters to danger

Ryan Truscott 6 May 2025
Banner image of scarlet macaws in Guatemala by Rony Rodriguez.

Hand-raised chicks boost Guatemala’s critically endangered macaws

Kristine Sabillo 5 May 2025
Limbu locals stage protest against the project. Image courtesy of Mukkumlung Protection and Struggle Committee.

Cable car project in Nepal under fire for flawed environmental review

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 May 2025
A young river dweller docks on the bank of the Madeira River in the late afternoon, near the town of Borba, Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly.

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

Kevin Damasio 5 May 2025
op row from left to right: Averi Doxtator, Liudmyla Korotkykh, Toni Chiran, Aviaaija Baadsgaard. Second row from left to right: Cindy Sisa Andy Aguinda, Joshua Amponsem, Janell Dymus-Kurei. Image by Grist.

Indigenous youth at the U.N. share environmental setbacks and solutions

Taylar Dawn Stagner 3 May 2025
An Inga leader from the Yunguillo reserve, José Homero Mutumbajoy is the human rights and peace coordinator for OPIAC. Image courtesy of José Homero Mutumbajoy.

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025

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