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Infrastructure and land use behind devastating India monsoon floods

Naina Rao 14 Aug 2026
Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai, center, celebrates with Siraya activists Wan Cheng-hsiung, right, and Alak Akatuang on July 30, 2026, after announcing the recognition of the Siraya people as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group in Taipei. Image courtesy of Taiwan’s Executive Yuan.

Siraya gain recognition as Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group

Yenni Kwok 13 Aug 2026
Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi and elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge in Brazil. From left to right: Marta Xavier de Oliveira, Maura Rosa Titiah Vieira, Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HaHaHãi, Aniraldo Xavier Kariri-Sapuyá and Maria Creuza Fernandes Rodrigues Kariri-Sapuyá. Photos by Karla Mendes. Graphic design by Marilia Ferrari.

How the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2026
Activists in Myanmar protest against the Myitsone Dam project in this 2019 file photo. Image by AP Photo/Thein Zaw.

Myanmar junta pushes to restart Myitsone Dam project

Esther J 13 Aug 2026
I Putu Ardana with the Jaga Wana (Forest Guardian) youth group.

Indigenous groups renew legal challenge to Indonesian conservation law

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2026
A herd of deer on Tianmu mountain in the winter.

Decades after religions shaped China’s Tianmushan, authorities tackle protecting reserve

Keith Anthony Fabro, Latoya Abulu 12 Aug 2026
Ntoiye Kimorgo, a Maasai traditional healer and member of the Paran-affiliated Naretoi Group

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 11 Aug 2026

Climate change doubled likelihood of Canada’s extreme fire weather, study finds

Naina Rao 10 Aug 2026
Indigenous representatives interviewed by Mongabay. Illustration by Nadiyah Suyatna.

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities

Latoya Abulu 9 Aug 2026
Herd of Finnish forest reindeer in Finland. Image by Sámediggi Saamelaiskäräjät (Sámi parliament) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Sacred places & living lands: How Indigenous Sámi peoples steward biodiversity (analysis)

Emil Siekkinen 7 Aug 2026
Doña Oscarina. Photo by Ana Amelia Hamdan / ISA

Doña Oscarina, master ceramicist, documented Indigenous knowledge along the Tiquié River

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2026
Gold extraction site

Brazil’s mining agency under fire over corruption and omission probes

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Aug 2026
Volunteers carry bags of straw at a tree planting event in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan on June 7, 2026.

In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis

Jonathan Vit 4 Aug 2026
A weimang tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) at the Tenkile Conservation Alliance base in Lumi. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

New ‘conservation deed’ aims to protect tree kangaroos, forests, people in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 4 Aug 2026
A whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) stalks the reef at Luf Island, Papua New Guinea.

Four Pacific nations are planning one of the world’s largest ocean corridors

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2026

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2026

As Indonesia’s new capital rises, the sounds of Borneo’s rainforest are changing

Mongabay.com 3 Aug 2026

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong, Niken D. Sitoningrum 31 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026

How can Indigenous knowledge reshape AI development?

Mongabay.com 30 Jul 2026
For years, the Parakanã Indigenous people had their territory exploited by around 3,000 invaders. Image by Bruno Peres/Agência Brasil.

Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jul 2026
Shuswap Band drummers at a ceremonial fry release in Invermere, May 2026. The ceremonial fry releases and Fish-in-School educational releases on the Upper Columbia River connect salmon and salmon people, bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members working for salmon reintroduction. Image by Ruth Kamnitzer.

First Nations lead the return of salmon to Canada’s Upper Columbia River

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Jul 2026
Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna leader Yaiku Suya at an April 2026 public hearing. Image courtesy of Larissa Silva/Rede Juruena Vivo.

Brazil court orders recognition of Indigenous land and apology for historic atrocities

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jul 2026
Pat Lowe.

Pat Lowe spent decades describing and defending the Kimberley

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jul 2026
Oak trees in a temperate forest in the higher altitudes of the Sierra Gorda, where more than 30 species of oak trees can be found. Photo by Roberto Pedraza Ruiz.

How carbon markets can succeed & also serve Global South communities (commentary)

Pati Ruiz Corzo 27 Jul 2026
Khuiusi Khisetje. Photo by Christian Braga / ISA

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2026
United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. Image by Dionne Phillips.

Indigenous leaders push for stronger voice at UN as climate threats grow

Dionne Phillips 23 Jul 2026
Cerros de Mavecure in Colombia's Guainía in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Ten years of Mongabay Latam

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026
Fire in the Chiquitania forest in the south of Bolivia, September 2024. Image © Juan Karita/AP photo.

Third year of wildfires threaten isolated Indigenous group in Bolivia

Shanna Hanbury 22 Jul 2026
Indigenous people walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, 2024.

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2026
For some animals, roadways act like fences, and they don’t even attempt to cross. Others, like bears, moose and bighorn sheep, and some smaller species, may attempt to cross, though it may prove deadly. Image by Jane Palmer.

How to stitch a massive wildlife corridor through the Rocky Mountains

Jane Palmer 22 Jul 2026

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