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Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

With the help of an app, Nunavut hunters document the changing Arctic

Claudia Geib 7 Oct 2020

A Philippine tribe’s plant-based medical tradition gets its moment

Bong S. Sarmiento 2 Oct 2020

Indigenous Ashaninka launch fundraiser to help Amazon neighbors amid pandemic

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 29 Jul 2020

Indigenous solutions to climate crisis could lie in archaeology, experts say

Ian Morse 6 May 2020
The village of Ypoi by Mídia Ninja.

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Indigenous-made film explores traditional textile making in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 28 Feb 2019
The masks of Julio Toaquiza have been exhibited in various countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, where it has been recognized that their art is unique. Photo by Jonatan Rosas for Mongabay.

The man who made Ecuador’s wooden Tigua masks famous

Kimberley Brown 16 Jan 2019
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

The dialogue between science and indigenous knowledge

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jun 2018

Amazon tribe’s traditional medicine encyclopedia gets an update, and conservation effectiveness in Madagascar examined

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2017
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments

Nicoletta Lanese 27 Nov 2017

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