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Ecuador pig & poultry farm pollution sparks protest amid IDB, IFC loans

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Aug 2023

In Indonesia’s Aceh, Indigenous communities seek recognition of their forest rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jul 2023

On Indonesia’s Seram Island, a massive oil find lies beneath sacred land

Christ Belseran, Martha Dianti 25 Jul 2023
Katia Silene shows the Brazil nuts.

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

Maurício Angelo, Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2023

Indigenous villagers still lack safe land, water & food after 2019 dam burst

Nina Rocha 12 Jul 2023

A standing Amazon Rainforest could create an $8 billion bioeconomy: Study

Sarah Brown 4 Jul 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023
Farmers in the Lower Omo Valley.

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Kaleab Girma 13 Jun 2023

Q&A with Sydney Possuelo, the most prominent specialist in isolated indigenous peoples in Brazil

Carolina Conti 13 Jun 2023

The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda

André Schröder 1 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos - Repórter Brasil, Naira Hofmeister, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann 29 May 2023

In the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous communities protect the sacred black caiman

Astrid Arellano 24 May 2023

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2023

World Bank: Brazil faces $317 billion in annual losses to Amazon deforestation

Sarah Brown 19 May 2023

Congo Basin communities left out by ‘fortress conservation’ fight for a way back in

Mike DiGirolamo 16 May 2023
Kwegu fishing in the Omo River

Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley

John Cannon, Kaleab Girma 16 May 2023

Inaugural Indigenous women’s forum spotlights Congo Basin conservation

Elodie Toto 10 May 2023

Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri

Basten Gokkon 4 May 2023

How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC report

Yvette Sierra Praeli 4 May 2023

‘Many features of the Amazon are man-made’: Q&A with archaeologist Eduardo Neves

Peter Speetjens 3 May 2023

‘I’ll keep fighting’: Indigenous activist and Goldman winner Alessandra Munduruku

Sarah Brown 27 Apr 2023

A mountain of gold: Mining titles threaten Indigenous lands in Guainía, Colombia

Jose Guarnizo 26 Apr 2023
Tanzania protest Ngorongoro

Indigenous Maasai ask the United Nations to intervene on reported human rights abuses

Joseph Lee 21 Apr 2023

‘Don’t buy Brazilian gold’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Júnior Hekurari Yanomami

Sam Cowie 20 Apr 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Mar 2023

As Indonesia’s new capital takes shape, risks to wider Borneo come into focus

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023

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