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A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Raising awareness about fishing cats during an education program.

Conservationists in Nepal say government must step up in coming years

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Chörtens right outside the walled city of Lo Manthang. Image by Jean-Marie Hullot via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 Deed).

Traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of age-old Himalayan practice

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 5 Dec 2023
Delio de Jesús Suárez Gómez has become a bee expert. He is 58 years old, belongs to the Tucano peoples, and has turned to meliponiculture to help secure the future of his community and the surrounding forest. Image by Jose Guarnizo.

The man who made a pact with wild bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Jose Guarnizo 1 Dec 2023

Amazon women create sweet business success with wild, vitamin-C packed fruit

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 9 Nov 2023
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Image by Dr. Jonathan Moore.

To keep track of salmon migrations in real time, First Nations turn to AI

Spoorthy Raman 6 Nov 2023
A group of Murujuga custodians formed the group Save Our Songlines to stop the future destruction of rock art using the law.

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Tessa Fox 31 Oct 2023
Radhavato Devi training an Indigenous woman to make sari with banana fiber.

Banana fiber sari offers sustainable, biodegradable alternative in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 20 Oct 2023
Participants in an eelgrass coring workshop gather sediment cores from an eelgrass meadow, which will be used to establish how long the carbon stored by eelgrass stays locked away.

First Nation and scientists partner to revive climate-saving eelgrass

Moira Donovan 22 Sep 2023
Jerry Lotawa.

‘The forest is so much more than money’: Q&A with Fijian carbon project ranger Jerry Lotawa

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Photos: Fiji’s first Indigenous-owned carbon credit project

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023
Katana Ngala in a boat during a coral restoration project.

‘All will be well’: Q&A with Kenyan fisher turned coral gardener Katana Ngala

Anthony Langat 17 Aug 2023
Ali Garama, the Kuruwitu BMU chairman.

Kenyan fishers put new twists on an age-old marine conservation system

Anthony Langat 9 Aug 2023
Indigenous leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku confronted Anglo American over its attempts to mine on protected Indigenous land, leading the mining giant to withdraw its prospecting applications. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Three new studies on Indigenous conservation for International Indigenous Peoples Day

Sandra Cuffe 9 Aug 2023
Bajo seafarer named Umar Pasandre has been quietly building a career as an influential environmental defender.

Sulawesi sea nomads who inspired Avatar movie chart new course saving forests

Sarjan Lahay 31 Jul 2023
A red silk-cotton plantation.

Bangladesh ‘Village of Herbs’ profits from planting rather than cutting trees

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 21 Jul 2023
Florinda Dominga Par is an active participant in the agroecological and artisanal market

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023
Women from a village in Bali in front of a house that preserves the traditional architecture with earthen wall on the front.

Indonesian architect presses vision for low-cost homes from nature

Moh. Tamimi 29 Jun 2023
graffiti wall

Colombian chef spearheads a food-based bioeconomy in the Colombian Amazon

Ocean Malandra 29 Jun 2023
Amanita muscaria is a mushroom that is both hallucinogenic and poisonous. Image posted by creator 942784 to the Creative Commons via Pixabay.

‘A psychedelic renaissance’: How hallucinogens can aid conservation

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Jun 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
Lilia Java at Lake Tarapoto.

Indigenous women in Colombia protect rich Amazonian wetland from overfishing

Astrid Arellano 20 Apr 2023
A baby tree kangaroo on a community chief's wife's shoulder.

PNG youths’ loss of tradition is bad news for hunting — but also for conservation

Spoorthy Raman 14 Apr 2023
Farmers winnowing harvested rice.

Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique 3 Apr 2023
The Kargi people, a remote nomadic settlement in Kenya. Image by Ian Macharia via Unsplash.

Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science too, reports say

Ian Morse 14 Mar 2023
A humpback whale.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

Spoorthy Raman 10 Mar 2023

What Indigenous knowledge can teach the world about saving biodiversity

Mike DiGirolamo 7 Mar 2023
Michellejean with a GPS device with elders in the forest.

Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines

Keith Anthony Fabro 6 Mar 2023
Celebration of the 2020-2023 election period of the Sámi assemblies in 17 June 2022. Image by Kevin J. Francett / Kajastus Creative / Sámediggi Saamelaiskäräjät (the Sámi Parliament) via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

John Last 21 Feb 2023
A researcher shows one of the illustrations that are part of the stingless bee project. Image courtesy of Conservation International Colombia.

Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon

Astrid Arellano 8 Feb 2023

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