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Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 27 Feb 2018

Ecuador votes to reduce oil exploitation in Yasuní National Park

Daniela Aguilar 12 Feb 2018

680000 acres of Amazon rainforest may be lost to Peru’s new roads

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jan 2018

‘They want to occupy and take our land’: Land conflicts increase in Brazil

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Dec 2017

Extensive illegal cattle ranching destroys core area of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve

Duyerling Ríos, Cristopher Mendoza 28 Aug 2017

Global megadam activism and the sounds of nature in Taiwan

Mike Gaworecki 25 Jul 2017

Colombia expands indigenous reserves near key deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2017

How the World Heritage Convention could save more wilderness: Q&A with World Heritage expert Cyril Kormos

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Jul 2017
Caboco on a Sunday fishing trip. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay.

Amid life and death risks, Brazil’s land defenders stand firm

Maximo Anderson 29 May 2017

Brazil agribusiness company accuses ally Temer in secret bribe taping

Jenny Gonzales 23 May 2017

Jokowi reiterates commitment to indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2017

Indonesia’s indigenous peoples will have to keep waiting for a promised task force on their rights

Mongabay.com 18 Mar 2017

Jokowi cancels appearance at rare indigenous peoples congress

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2017

Q&A with Abdon Nababan, outgoing head of Indonesia’s indigenous peoples alliance

Philip Jacobson 13 Mar 2017
Kalapalo tribal men, an indigenous group that lives in the Xingu Resex in 2008. Photo by Eduardo Giacomazzi/Wikimedia Commons

Brazil’s ‘river people’ join forces with indigenous communities, offer alternative to deforestation

Maximo Anderson 10 Feb 2017

Scientists launch expedition to find missing monkeys

Christina Selby 2 Feb 2017

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Wildfires threaten Peruvian Indigenous communities and national park

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 19 Sep 2016

After game-changing Dakota Access decision, a look at Sioux strategy

Saul Elbein 14 Sep 2016

Oil pipeline sparks fierce opposition among American tribes and farmers

Saul Elbein 29 Aug 2016

Illegal gold mining causing mercury contamination in indigenous groups

Carolina Torres 7 Jul 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

UNESCO declares largest biosphere reserve in North America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Mar 2016

To tackle climate change cheaply, first secure indigenous forest rights

Sandra Cuffe 17 Nov 2015

Indigenous miners, leaders under threat in Colombia following killing

Sandra Cuffe 10 Aug 2015

Mining the heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s gold rush claims more forest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 4 Aug 2015

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

David Hill 4 Feb 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Jul 2013

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2013

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