Indigenous reserves News

RSS
580 stories
Image courtesy of Fernanda Meirelles, Idesam/ Observatório BR-319.

Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell

Ana Ionova 23 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

Brazil prosecutors seek ban on all gold mining in hard-hit Amazonian region

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jul 2021

Killings, invasions escalate in fight for land in Brazil’s Maranhão state

Juliana Ennes 15 Jul 2021

Bank risk policies failing to protect Amazon from oil-related threats: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Jul 2021

‘I am Indigenous, not pardo’: Push for self-declaration in Brazil’s census

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Rio de Janeiro, Indigenous people fight to undo centuries of erasure

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2021

In Boa Vista, Indigenous Brazilians retake their identity through education

Nayra Wladimila 29 Jun 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Tiffany Higgins 23 Jun 2021

In Brazil’s most Indigenous city, prejudice and diversity go hand in hand

Ana Amelia Hamdan 22 Jun 2021

What’s the cost of illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon? A new tool calculates it

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2021
A fire burns in Xingu Indigenous Park in 2016. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Slash-and-burn clearing nears Indigenous park as Brazil’s fire season ignites

Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Jun 2021

Brazil’s Uru-eu-wau-wau document COVID-19 victory with new video

Alejandro Smith 10 Jun 2021
Waimiri Atroari Indigenous people in Brazilian Amazon

World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages

Maurício Angelo 4 Jun 2021

Land conflicts in Brazil break record under Bolsonaro

Juliana Ennes 2 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests

Aldo Benítez 27 May 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021

Indigenous in Brasília: The fight for rights in Brazil’s power base

Leticia Casado 25 May 2021
A member of the Indigenous Tikuna nation paddling a dugout canoe on a tributary of the Amazon in Colombia by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Protected areas now cover nearly 17% of Earth’s surface: U.N. report

John Cannon 20 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital

Alexandre Lyrio 11 May 2021

Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum

Jennifer Ann Thomas 28 Apr 2021
A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples are being shortchanged as forest guardians: Report

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Apr 2021

Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Apr 2021

Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 16 Apr 2021

‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits

Leilani Chavez 15 Apr 2021

Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021

‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city

Karla Mendes 12 Apr 2021

you're currently offline