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Land and language: Indigenous cultures key to protecting Amazon biodiversity

Miguel Pinheiro 5 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

On a Philippine island, Indigenous women get their say on marine conservation

Jen Chan 22 Oct 2020

Camila Chindoy, the Indigenous daughter poised to lead her Amazon community

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 22 Oct 2020

Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity

Kimberley Brown 20 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020
The Kayapó Xikrin people of the Northern Amazon were affected by 2019’s infamous Fire Day. Photo taken in August 2019. Credit: Emilio Chong/Land is Life.

Survival of Indigenous communities at risk as Amazon fire season advances

Shanna Hanbury 2 Sep 2020

Coronavirus caused by ‘unbalancing’ of nature: Q&A with Indigenous leader Levi Sucre Romero

Francesca Edralin 2 Sep 2020

‘It’s taking away our wise men’: COVID-19 hits Peru’s Indigenous people hard

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Aug 2020

Peru gov’t needs to act on COVID-19 in Amazon Indigenous cases, NGOs say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Aug 2020

New Indigenous storytelling platform brings community perspectives to the world

Liz Kimbrough 10 Aug 2020

For the Philippines’ Mangyans, COVID-19 extends a long history of discrimination

Robert Bociaga 7 Aug 2020

Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Aug 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

From a Philippine conflict hotspot, a new insect-eating plant emerges

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2020

‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows

Sue Branford 9 Jun 2020

In Hawai’i, researchers work to slow the rapid death of a beloved tree

Shannon Brown 5 Jun 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin

JoAnna Haugen 12 May 2020

‘It was like a church’: Ecuador’s Kichwa community mourns death of sacred tree

Johnny Magdaleno 8 May 2020
Oil palm fruit in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Dayak women of Indonesia resist gender inequality exacerbated by palm oil production

Lauren Bowman 7 May 2020

Indigenous solutions to climate crisis could lie in archaeology, experts say

Ian Morse 6 May 2020
Kanamari indigenous child in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas state, one of the most vulnerable indigenous reserves to COVID-19, according to an analysis by the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), a Brazilian NGO. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis

Ignacio Amigo 29 Apr 2020

In a Philippine indigenous stronghold, traditions keep COVID-19 at bay

Karlston Lapniten 21 Apr 2020

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