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Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 24 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
Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong Mongabay investigation reveals that large plots in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous Guajajara inhabitants.

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024

UNESCO accused of supporting human rights abuses in African parks

Aimee Gabay 17 Jun 2024

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

Jaqueline Sordi 10 Jun 2024

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024
Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024
Rainforest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Rebecca Wilson and Eliana Lafone 3 Jun 2024
Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara shows a bullet shell in 2019.

Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil

Karla Mendes 31 May 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

Ivan Brehaut, Rodrigo Pedroso, Victoria Carlos 24 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
A Dayak Pitap woman.

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

Riyad Dafhi Rizki 15 May 2024

Secrets from the rainforest’s past uncovered in Amazonian backyards

Carolina Pinheiro 8 May 2024

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

Sarah Brown 7 May 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024

Indigenous Philippine village rejects gold mine, cites flawed consultation

Michael Beltran 1 May 2024

Apologies aren’t enough, Indigenous people say of Brazil dictatorship’s crimes

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

André Schröder 29 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024
A sign marks a boundary of the Tohono O'odham Reservation.

Tribes turn to the U.N. as major wind project plans to cut through their lands in the U.S.

Taylar Dawn Stagner 24 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

Activists file last-gasp suit as Indonesia fails again to pass Indigenous bill

Richaldo Hariandja 23 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024
A man from the Vedda community in Sri Lanka.

In largest ever study, Indigenous and local communities report the impacts of climate change

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Apr 2024
This land once belonged to the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people, who depended on the dense forest to hunt and fish.

International hesitancy to adopt environmental regulations threatens Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 17 Apr 2024

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