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Cautious win for Indigenous groups in Malaysia as palm oil firm pauses forest clearing

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 11 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025
An Indigenous man takes part in a demonstration in defense of the Amazon during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, in Beléem, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

Brazil hosts COP30 with high ambitions — and scaling environmental ambiguities

Carla Ruas 10 Nov 2025
Indigenous guide at Sani Isla in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

To fix the climate, simply empower Indigenous people (commentary)

Kiki Taufik 10 Nov 2025

After 6 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing pushed to 2026

Karla Mendes 7 Nov 2025

New pledge, old problems as Indonesia’s latest Indigenous forest promise draws skepticism

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Nov 2025

Indigenous delegates prepare for COP30 with focus on justice, land and finance

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 7 Nov 2025
Samburu women part of the Mama Simba programme. Image by Anthony Ochieng/Ewaso Lions.

Women can help rebuild our relationship with lions: Voices from the land (commentary)

Mama Simba, Victoria Wanjohi 6 Nov 2025
Watcharakon Jatoenpun, AKA Sprite, showed reporters the expansive maize farms he works on in Mae Cham district, where seasonal air pollution is tied to agricultural burning. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand

Gerald Flynn 6 Nov 2025

Congo Basin communities bear the costs of industrial expansion

David Akana 5 Nov 2025
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Climate finance must reach Indigenous communities at COP30 & beyond (commentary)

Suzanne Pelletier and Victor Gil 5 Nov 2025
A cassava farmer checks his crops in the Juma Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, circa 2011. Cassava serves as both an important commercial crop and a subsistence crop by Indigenous and traditional peoples.

Witch Hunt: Virulent fungal disease attacks South America’s cassava crop

Gloria Dickie 5 Nov 2025

Suriname’s plan to capitalize on carbon: Q&A with President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

Maxwell Radwin 4 Nov 2025
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Banten Province, Indonesia.

Indonesia pledges energy transition — but the country’s new NDC says otherwise

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Nov 2025
Puerto Caimán Island in the Curare-Los Ingleses Indigenous Reserve’s conservation area.

Indigenous communities protect Colombia’s uncontacted peoples

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Nov 2025

Critical minerals drive legalization of mining on Amazon Indigenous lands

Lucas Berti 3 Nov 2025
Amazon Conservation Team ACEAA and Amazon Conservation with the Tacana II community of Puerto Pérez. Photo by Pedro Laguna/Conservación Amazónica ACEAA.

Despite new land title, Bolivia’s Indigenous Tacana II still face invaders

Aimee Gabay 3 Nov 2025
A Bornean orangutan. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Why facts alone won’t save the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Oct 2025
Annapurna mountains.

Ousted Nepal gov’t cleared easier path for controversial cable cars, documents show

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 29 Oct 2025
Communities in the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin have activities such as livestock farming, agriculture, crafts and tourism. Image courtesy of Clemente Flores.

Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)

Clemente Flores 27 Oct 2025
Dozens of Mashco Piro people appeared on a riverbank in Peru in 2024, just a few miles from logging concessions. The Mascho Piro are Indigenous nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with outsiders.

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

Sue Branford 27 Oct 2025
Abu Nessma at the café by the sea.

‘A very successful story’: An Egypt tribe welcomes tourists & protects its coast

Victoria Schneider 27 Oct 2025

Indonesia’s most vulnerable push for nation’s first Climate Justice Bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Oct 2025
Noraeri Thungmueangthong is a village leader in Huay Ee Khang village in northern Thailand.

Forest sanctuaries and spiritual balance in the Karen highlands of Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 22 Oct 2025
Female Indigenous guardians. Image by Brandi Morin.

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

Brandi Morin 22 Oct 2025
Cerro Rico mountain above the city of Potosí, Bolivia.

In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing

Benjamin Swift 22 Oct 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025
Flowing from Myanmar into Thailand, the Kok River carries toxic runoff from rare earth mines into Chiang Mai province. Image supplied by Brian Eyler.

More Thai rivers and downstream communities at risk from Myanmar’s rare earth mines

Mongabay 20 Oct 2025

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 17 Oct 2025
Community people in Jhumlabang gathered in a community meeting in July. Image courtesy of Jhumlabang Village Foundation (JVF).

In Nepal’s hills, a fight brews over the country’s biggest iron deposit

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Oct 2025
Tony James. From the Stabroek News Facebook page.

Chief Kokoi, defender of the Rupununi, died on October 12th

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2025

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