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Mennonites in the municipality of Bacalar.

Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 26 Jan 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an Indigenous hospital and the Indigenous health support house in Boa Vista.

Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis

Sarah Brown 25 Jan 2023
Sonia Guajajara

Sonia Guajajara: Turnaround from jail threats to Minister of Indigenous Peoples

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2023
Juvenile Salmon in Estuary. Image by Travish Campbell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

As sea lice feast away on dwindling salmon, First Nations decide the fate of salmon farms

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jan 2023
Beekeeper using a bamboo ladder to reach a hive in Umalila, in Tanzania's Southern Highlands. Image by Paul Latham via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

For Tanzania’s traditional beekeepers, modern hives just don’t buzz

Ryan Truscott 23 Jan 2023
Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira (left) and Nelly Marubo.

‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy

Max Baring 23 Jan 2023

Colombia’s ‘tree of life’ births a new culinary and conservation movement

Ocean Malandra 23 Jan 2023
A member of the Pataxó community.

Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Karla Mendes 20 Jan 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023

Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jan 2023
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Indigenous Kogi worldview aims to change face of conservation for good

Kimberley Brown 18 Jan 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023

Q&A: Climatologist Carlos Nobre’s dream of an Amazon Institute of Technology

Jaqueline Sordi 16 Jan 2023
Broken windows at Brazil's Presidential Palace after terrorist acts on Jan. 8 in Brasília. Image courtesy of Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil.

For Indigenous Brazilians, capital attack was ‘scenario of war’ akin to deforestation

Karla Mendes 13 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

At COP 15, biodiversity finance, Indigenous rights, and corporate influence

Mike DiGirolamo 11 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jan 2023
‘Funai is ours’: Officers, Indigenous people ‘retake’ agency under President Lula

‘Funai is ours’: Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency is reclaimed under Lula

Karla Mendes 9 Jan 2023
Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Indigenous people.

From deforestation to restoration: Policy plots path to Amazon recovery

André Schröder 6 Jan 2023
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Locals fight to save ‘a piece of the sea’ in Venezuela’s Andes

María Fernanda Rodríguez, Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 5 Jan 2023
First day of 2023 with the inauguration of President Lula.

President Lula’s first pro-environment acts protect Indigenous people and the Amazon

Karla Mendes 4 Jan 2023

Climate crisis puts Indigenous Amazonians’ Quarup funeral ritual at risk

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 4 Jan 2023
The Enawenê-Nawê Indigenous people.

Series of small dams pose big cumulative risk to Amazon’s fish and people

Sarah Brown 3 Jan 2023
Rainbow over oil palm plantations and forest in Jambi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of gold mining.

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2022

Alexandra Popescu 29 Dec 2022

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Beto Marubo in Vale do Javari, Brazil, in 2022. Image courtesy of Beto Marubo.

‘We’re not going to give Lula a free pass’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Beto Marubo

Jaqueline Sordi 27 Dec 2022

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