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Shelly Boyd, a Sinixt woman, co-leads the annual salmon ceremony at Kettle Falls and keeps tradition alive by singing songs that have been sung there for millennia.

A tribe once declared ‘extinct’ helps reintroduce salmon to the Columbia River

Anna Dulisse 30 Jul 2024
Ailton Krenak

It’s not the end, we have several possible futures: Interview with Indigenous author Ailton Krenak

Jaqueline Sordi 30 Jul 2024
From left: Florinda Zurdo, Silvia Salina and Patricia Mendoza stand in a plot of land near ASASTRAN’s site in Lajero where traditional medicine is cultivated.

Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to preserve traditional medicine for maternal health

Adam D. Williams 25 Jul 2024
A Maasai man armed with a spear stands on a hilltop close to the highest point of the Loita hills.

PHOTOS: For Kenya’s Maasai, a new faith may undo age-old conservation traditions

Stuart Butler 23 Jul 2024
Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024
Service in Östersund.

How Europe’s only Indigenous group is inspiring a greener Christianity

John Last 17 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024
Lupine flowers in sunshine in Milford Sound, New Zealand. Image by Aneta Hartmannová via Unsplash.

Is ‘legal personhood’ a tool or a distraction for Māori relationships with nature?

Monica Evans 8 Jul 2024
Musicians at a 2019 ceremony marking a three-month rāhui closure of the bonefish fishery in Anaa Atoll.

French Polynesians revive traditional rāhui to protect fish — and livelihoods

Amélie David 4 Jul 2024
A peyote (Lophophora williamsii).

The Wixárika community’s thirteen-year legal battle to stop mining in their sacred territory

Astrid Arellano 2 Jul 2024
Handils are the boundaries of fields as well as paths for transportation and waters to fish in.

Borneo’s Dayak adapt Indigenous forestry to modern peat management

Titik Kartitiani 25 Jun 2024
Preparation towards graduating boys into Maasai warriors in Simanjiro District.

Forced evictions suppress Maasai spirituality & sacred spaces in Tanzania

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Jun 2024
Torosiaje fisherman's octopus harvest.

Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus

Sarjan Lahay 20 Jun 2024
Bamboo rafting is an activity along the Kala Meriah River while enjoying the beauty of nature.

In Indonesia’s Aceh, a once-isolated forest hosts local travelers on bamboo rafts

Junaidi Hanafiah 17 Jun 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024
He‘eia fishpond.

Restoring Indigenous aquaculture heals both ecosystems and communities in Hawai‘i

Keona Blanks 5 Jun 2024

Indigenous Alaskans drive research in a melting arctic

Gabe Allen 4 Jun 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024
A worker at a rubber plantation at PT Alam Lestari Nusantara. Image by Rubber tapping workers at PL ALN.

Desperation sets in for Indigenous Sumatrans who lost their forests to plantations

Teguh Suprayitno 9 May 2024

Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

Carolina Pinheiro 8 May 2024
Karma, a monk in the ancient monastery of Mu Gompa

In a Himalayan Eden, a road project promises opportunity, but also loss

Stuart Butler 8 May 2024
A manta ray.

E-Sak Ka Ou Declaration underscores Indigenous rights as a conservation solution (commentary)

Minh Tran 14 Mar 2024
Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024
A harvester navigating the wild rice beds on the canoe.

Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

Spoorthy Raman 4 Mar 2024

A feathered cape bridges past and present for Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinambá

Matheus Lopes Quirino 4 Mar 2024
Juanita Torremocha harvests a medicinal herb in her backyard, located near Mount Bandilaan National Park at the heart of Siquijor Island.

Traditional healers in Philippines keep their ‘forest pharmacy’ standing

Keith Anthony Fabro 9 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024
Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024
A Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus).

Report: Human tragedy stalks the prized Honduran lobster industry

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023

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