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IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020

Decades-old mine in Bougainville exacts devastating human toll: Report

John Cannon 17 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020

Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 8 Apr 2020
Waimiri-Atroari indigenous village, where the Kinja indigenous people live in the northernmost state of Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon. A federal judge has ordered government websites to publish a letter from the Kinja indigenous people for 30 days as part of their right of response to racist rhetoric by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Image by Maiká Schwade/CPT Amazonas

Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective

Shanna Hanbury 7 Apr 2020

Indigenous Papuans initiate own lockdowns in face of COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 6 Apr 2020

For Philippines’ displaced indigenous students, COVID-19 is one of many threats

Leilani Chavez 3 Apr 2020
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image by heath department of Santo Antônio do Içá.

First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 2 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020
Guarani indigenous people protest against real estate speculation in a lot close to Jaraguá indigenous reserve in São Paulo. Image by Tommaso Protti for Mongabay

Housing project puts São Paulo’s remaining Atlantic Forest at risk

Tiffany Higgins, Tommaso Protti 27 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

Turning the tide for an endangered crab species in the Philippines

Jen Chan 12 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Sue Branford 5 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020

Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maurício Angelo 26 Feb 2020

Mining could topple community-managed forests in Mexico: New film

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes/Conexão Planeta 17 Jan 2020

Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes

John Cannon 16 Jan 2020

Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”

Sibélia Zanon 23 Dec 2019

Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

Arhuaco community of Colombia allows scientists to photograph ‘lost’ toad

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

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