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The forests of the Torricelli Mountain Range. Image courtesy of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance.

Deforestation threatens tree kangaroo habitat in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 14 Oct 2021

Brazil court upholds ban on missionaries trying to contact isolated Indigenous

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Oct 2021

In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future

Aurora Solá 5 Oct 2021

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking threatens Indigenous Shipibo communities in Peru

Enrique Vera 3 Sep 2021

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Gloria Alvitres 26 Aug 2021

Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities

Carol Sánchez 24 Aug 2021
An orangutan in Sabah, Borneo

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 23 Aug 2021

Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Malaysian council opens hearing into claims of timber certification flaws

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Jun 2021

Tin mines close in on an Indonesian hamlet still clinging to nature

Taufik Wijaya 16 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2021

Indigenous in Brasília: The fight for rights in Brazil’s power base

Leticia Casado 25 May 2021

Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2021

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

After gold miners shoot Yanomani people, Brazil cuts environmental regulation further

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021

Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs

Shanna Hanbury 6 May 2021

Brazil’s Bolsonaro vowed to work with Indigenous people. Now he’s investigating them

Mongabay.com 4 May 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021

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