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Study confirms Bolivian Indigenous park as stronghold for horned curassow

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Mar 2023

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

Basten Gokkon 8 Mar 2023

What Indigenous knowledge can teach the world about saving biodiversity

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Mar 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project

Elizabeth Oliveira 7 Mar 2023
Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

Jenny Gonzales 6 Mar 2023
Michellejean with a GPS device with elders in the forest.

Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Mar 2023

Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2023

Indigenous Comcaac serve up an oceanic grain to preserve seagrass meadows

Astrid Arellano 3 Mar 2023
An ocelot.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for March 2023

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2023
Part of a Yanomami community.

Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon

André Schröder 28 Feb 2023

Chinese investment continues to hurt Latin American ecosystems, report says

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2023
Karen men walk with their elephants.

‘You don’t kill people to protect forests’: New Thai parks chief raises alarm

Kannikar Petchkaew 27 Feb 2023
Celebration of the 2020-2023 election period of the Sámi assemblies in 17 June 2022. Image by Kevin J. Francett / Kajastus Creative / Sámediggi Saamelaiskäräjät (the Sámi Parliament) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

John Last 21 Feb 2023
Members of the Mulambwane community under a baobab tree.

Element Africa: The platinum ‘bully’ and the secret oil deal

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2023

For some Colombians, vows of mining reform are just a flash in the pan

Charlie Espinosa, Charles Lyons 20 Feb 2023

Bauxite mining in Pará poisons Quilombola people

João Paulo Guimarães 20 Feb 2023
Glicéria Tupinambá watches First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.

Brazilian Indigenous anthropologists turn the tables from ‘objects of study’ to active voices

Max Baring 20 Feb 2023
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

Palm oil plantation linked to Wilmar faces accusations in Liberia

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Feb 2023

US pledges Amazon Fund donation, renewing hope for the rainforest

Sarah Brown 13 Feb 2023

Invisible destruction: 38% of remaining Amazon forest already degraded

Suzana Camargo 13 Feb 2023
Herders in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Image courtesy of the Oakland Institute.

‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report

John Cannon 12 Feb 2023
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil-U.S. cooperation is key for global forest conservation (commentary)

John Reid, Paulo Moutinho 9 Feb 2023
Marina Silva and Lula in a meeting with local leaders.

Lula’s government must go far beyond undoing Bolsonaro policies on Amazon forest & Indigenous rights (commentary)

Rodolfo Nóbrega, Ed Atkins 9 Feb 2023
Ismail in Mount Gede, Indonesia, cutting dead twigs to be used as firewood.

Updated guide gives practical advice for buyers of tropical forest carbon credits

John Cannon 9 Feb 2023

New reserve in Ecuador secures over 3 million acres of forest

Maxwell Radwin 9 Feb 2023
Célia Xakriabá.

‘If Brazil starts with us, why did we arrive last?’: Q&A with Indigenous lawmaker Célia Xakriabá

Karla Mendes 8 Feb 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023
Mining rafts and dredges on the Puré River.

Illegal mines and “floating towns” on the Puré River leave uncontacted Indigenous peoples at risk

Pilar Puentes 6 Feb 2023
Sheep grazing.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for February 2023

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
Joenia Wapichana.

Joenia Wapichana: ‘I want to see the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol territories free of invasions’

Karla Mendes 1 Feb 2023

JBS is accused of misleading investors with suspicious green bonds

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Feb 2023

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