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Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization

Mike Gaworecki 25 Nov 2020

Inside the weaving protests of West Timor

Febriana Firdaus 20 Nov 2020

Brazil art exhibition showcases an Indigenous worldview and poses questions

Sibélia Zanon 19 Nov 2020

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020
amandua and Baita in a still from the documentary film Piripkura (2018). Image courtesy of Bruno Jorge.

Surrounded by intruders, the last of Brazil’s Piripkura hold out in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 13 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Peruvian Indigenous groups thwart oil drilling in their territory — for now

John Cannon 30 Oct 2020

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

Jen Chan 22 Oct 2020
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

As Brazil burns, Indigenous fire brigades face an uncertain future

Maurício Angelo 9 Oct 2020

Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Raphaela Ribeiro from Agência Pública 6 Oct 2020

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

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020

Mercury from gold mining contaminates Amazon communities’ staple fish

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Sep 2020

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Aug 2020

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2020

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 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

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

New report asks, do land titles help poor farmers?

John Cannon 22 Jul 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

‘In the plantations there is hunger and loneliness’: The cultural dimensions of food insecurity in Papua (commentary)

Sophie Chao 14 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca, Rafael Oliveira 23 Jun 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

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

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2020

A bid to legitimize invasions of Brazil’s indigenous lands faces a court challenge

Caio de Freitas Paes 10 Jun 2020

Bison: (Back) home on the range

John Cannon 10 Jun 2020

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 9 Jun 2020

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