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In West Papua, a development plan that doesn’t require clearing forest

Een Irawan Putra 23 Jan 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

With its $3.85b mine takeover, Indonesia inherits a $13b pollution problem

Basten Gokkon 14 Jan 2019

Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 2 Jan 2019

Once bitten, Indonesia’s indigenous alliance won’t endorse 2019 candidates

Basten Gokkon 2 Jan 2019
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018
Puke Tīmoti helps local rangatahi (young people) make connections between cultural knowledge and science through the Te Whare o Rehua forest academy program. Image courtesy of Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust.

Māori community reconnects youth with their ancestral forests

Monica Evans 26 Dec 2018
A kererū (native woodpigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). The birds are culturally and ecologically important for Tūhoe. Image by Bernard Spragg. NZ via Flickr.

What makes a forest healthy? Māori knowledge has some answers.

Monica Evans 21 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018
Piupiu ferns (families Blechnaceae and Thelypteridaceae) on the forest floor. Image by Monica Evans for Mongabay.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Monica Evans 17 Dec 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador

Taran Volckhausen 17 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Global agreement on ‘conserved areas’ marks new era of conservation (commentary)

Harry D. Jonas, Holly C. Jonas 13 Dec 2018

From a new bird to a new community reserve: India’s tribe sets example

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Dec 2018
Valentin Suchite patrols the forest searching for signs of deforestation. Image by Anna-Catherine Brigida for Mongabay.

Guatemala: An indigenous community rejects, then accepts, a protected area

Anna-Catherine Brigida 12 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018

COP24: Human rights concerns cast a shadow over U.N. climate summit

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 6 Dec 2018
Berta Cáceres. Image by UN Environment - ONU Brasil via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

7 convicted of killing Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018
Dongria women from Hutesi village farm the slopes of the Niyamgiri hill range. Image by Indrajeet Rajkhowa.

Photos: Indian tribe revives heirloom seeds for health and climate security

Sonali Prasad 30 Nov 2018
Naisimari Lentula, a Yiaku herbalist, with a community forest scout outside her house. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

For Kenya’s Yiaku, medicinal herbs are their forest’s blessing and curse

Shadrack Kavilu 30 Nov 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

The Bangladeshi tribe that’s guarding turtles, co-authoring research papers

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Nov 2018
Lazarus Lentula, a 27-year-old leader of the Yiaku forest guards, who patrol and monitor Mukogodo for illegal activity. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Kenya: Bees help indigenous Yiaku defend and monitor their ancestral forest

Shadrack Kavilu 28 Nov 2018
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.

A forest of their own: The Yiaku as Kenya’s model forest stewards

Shadrack Kavilu 26 Nov 2018

Stop importing illegal timber, PNG activists tell China at APEC Summit

John Cannon 22 Nov 2018
A sign near Buru Energy’s Yulleroo fracking site. Image by Alexander Hayes via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 21 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Nov 2018

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