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Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

An indigenous declaration in Kalimantan looks to make history

Sapariah Saturi 22 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

Cambodian communities follow different routes to justice over Socfin rubber project

Greg Norman 13 Oct 2015

Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2015

Peru’s ronderos: Persecution of the Marañón patrolmen

Veronica Goyzueta 20 Jul 2015

Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law

Sapariah Saturi 26 Jun 2015

Locals lead scientists to new population of near-extinct reptile

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2015

Indigenous uprising earned tribe territories, but greatest challenges lie ahead

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 6 Nov 2014

Between the Forest and the Sea: The Yarsuisuit Collective – Part II

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 31 Oct 2014

Between the forest and the sea: life and climate change in Guna Yala – Part I

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 27 Oct 2014

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Ruxandra Guidi - Mongabay.org Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 4 Sep 2014

Ten years after Lost Africa: a retrospective on indigenous issues

Gabriel Thoumi Cfa 1 Apr 2014

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare birds, rice wine, and talk of tigers

Howie Nielsen 14 Mar 2013

Photographers threatening the already-abused slender loris

Dr Liz Kimbrough 12 Mar 2013

Indigenous knowledge reveals widespread mammal decline in northern Australia

Dr Liz Kimbrough 14 Feb 2013

Reduction in snow threatens Arctic seals

Darren Lloyd 28 Nov 2012

Elephant ancestors and Africa’s Bigfoot: new initiative works to preserve a continent’s wildest tales

Jeremy Hance 20 Aug 2012

Smartphones promoted as a tool for indigenous forest protection

Andrew Davey 23 Jul 2012

Traditional belief in mythical beasts help protect forests

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2012

Terra preta found in Asia

Jeremy Hance 14 May 2012

Exploring Asia’s lost world

Jeremy Hance 3 May 2012

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