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Mexico: pipeline divides Yaqui communities and triggers wave of violence

Rodrigo Soberanes 1 Aug 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2018
A ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), the species of pangolin that lives in Zimbabwe. Three other pangolin species live in Africa, and four others live in Asia. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Zimbabwe’s chiefs revive tradition to save the country’s last pangolins

Andrew Mambondiyani 10 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

John Cannon 25 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Ecuador: Waorani people map their rainforest to save it

Daniela Aguilar 6 Jun 2018

Field Museum honors Peruvian organization for its conservation work with indigenous groups

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2018
● Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has affected other communities in the Amazon.

Ecuador: Tribe sees how oil industry affects forest on ‘Toxic Tour’

Daniela Aguilar 1 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

John Cannon 21 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

What’s next for Indonesia’s stalled indigenous rights bill?

Cory Rogers 3 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018
Héctor Choc Cuz, right, poses with his brother. Choc Cuz, 18, was beaten to death on the edge of El Estor and died on March 31, 2018. Image courtesy of Angélica Choc.

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

Heather Gies 27 Apr 2018
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Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2018

Bid to protect indigenous Indonesians hit by ministry’s doubts over rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2018

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018

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