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Misak women, men and children observe the contrast between the monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantation, on the right, and the natural forest in their territory, on the left, from a distance.

FSC-certified paper plantation faces farmer backlash in Colombia

Natalia Torres Garzón 15 Aug 2022

Mexico court drops injunctions, paving way for controversial Tren Maya railway

Maxwell Radwin 15 Aug 2022
The flesh-footed shearwater (Ardenna carneipes)

In a hotter, drier climate, how serious is fire risk to island seabirds?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Aug 2022

‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

David Papannah, Laurel Sutherland 11 Aug 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, traditional midwives push for greater recognition

Luís Patriani 10 Aug 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

‘Sherpas’ real stories are seldom written’: Q&A with authors Ankit Babu Adhikari & Pradeep Bashyal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 9 Aug 2022
A Nepali honey collector.

Billions rely on wild species for food, energy and more: IPBES report

John Cannon 5 Aug 2022

Mongabay’s What-To-Watch list for August 2022

Mongabay.com 4 Aug 2022

For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended

Lais Modelli 4 Aug 2022

Big banks fund the heavy machinery used for Amazon deforestation, report says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Aug 2022

Indigenous activists in Borneo claim win as logging firm removes equipment from disputed area

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 2 Aug 2022
The Matis people made their first official contact with the outside world at the end of 1970.

Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed

Sarah Brown 2 Aug 2022
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Sarah Brown 1 Aug 2022

No permit? No problem for palm oil company still clearing forest in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Aug 2022

Young Indigenous leaders demand greater say in climate solutions at global youth strike

Laurel Sutherland 29 Jul 2022

Kigali call to action a step forward but not far enough, Indigenous and local leaders say

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Jul 2022
The Tiwi Nunka Forest in Ecuador. Photo courtesy of Nature and Culture International.

Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jul 2022
Monument tree. Image by Bethany Goodrich / Sustainable Southeast Partnership.

‘Monument trees’ underpin Alaska Native cultural resilience: they must be protected (commentary)

Audrey Clavijo 25 Jul 2022
A Diné woman in a traditional dress, on the rim of Grand Canyon. Image courtesy of Grand Canyon National Park via via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

‘Only a tribe can speak for a tribe’: Q&A with Native conservationists on Biden’s 30 by 30 project

Evan Bourtis 22 Jul 2022
Debbie Ngawera-Packer.

‘The sea means everything’: Q&A with deep-sea mining opponent Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2022

In Brazil, an Indigenous group turns a day of grief into a celebration of life

Ana Mendes 19 Jul 2022
Indigenous people from Pará and Amapá

Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 2022
Diver towing a string of taramea.

Young Māori divers hunt invasive crown-of-thorns starfish to save coral reefs

Monica Evans 15 Jul 2022
A group of Pataxó

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

Sarah Sax 14 Jul 2022

$245-million initiative to create and maintain protected areas in Colombia

Maxwell Radwin 14 Jul 2022

‘We have advanced, but with much pain’: Q&A with Indigenous leader José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal

Astrid Arellano 8 Jul 2022

BP exploited Mexican communities hoping to benefit from carbon credits: report

Maxwell Radwin 7 Jul 2022
A protest held in the Yankuntich community

Amazonian communities in Peru try to keep oil-rich Block 64 in their own hands

Gloria Alvitres 7 Jul 2022

Under Bolsonaro policy, invaders seize control of 250,000 hectares of Indigenous lands

Caio de Freitas Paes 7 Jul 2022
Plantations in Cuesta del Ternero that burned in January 2021. Image courtesy of Denali DeGraf.

Tree plantations in Patagonia are the site of wildfires and land dispute

Denali DeGraf 6 Jul 2022

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