Indigenous-led conservation News

North Slave Métis Alliance guardian Wayne Mercredi on caribou patrol on the Tibbitt to Contwoyto winter road. Image courtesy of the North Slave Métis Alliance.

As Canada eyes Arctic road expansion, Indigenous guardians race to understand caribou

Moira Donovan 23 Jun 2026

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022

Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests

Astrid Arellano 2 Feb 2022

Redwood forest in Muir Woods, Marin County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

California redwood forest returned to Indigenous guardianship, conservation

Laurel Sutherland 28 Jan 2022

Mangrove forest Kenya

Community project helps Kenya aim for climate goals one mangrove tree at a time

Joyce Chimbi 10 Jan 2022

Woman from the Khasi community in India showcases varieties of potato. Image courtesy of Global Hub On Indigenous Peoples Food System/Flickr.

Indigenous food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind (commentary)

Yon Fernandez-de-Larrinoa 6 Jan 2022

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Ana Cristina Basantes 5 Jan 2022

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Carol Sánchez 13 Dec 2021

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 10 Dec 2021

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

Underfunded but passionate, Native American conservationists call for more support

Evan Bourtis 30 Nov 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen 19 Nov 2021

Indigenous agents fight deforestation with drones and AI in Brazilian Amazon

Juliana Ennes, Leandro Chaves 10 Nov 2021

Indigenous activists protesting

Indigenous leaders share hopes and concerns towards pledges made at COP26

Justin Catanoso 10 Nov 2021

Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021

Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2021

California condor flying

Thanks to the Yurok Tribe, condors will return to the Pacific Northwest

Rachel Fritts 21 Sep 2021

Photo credit: Samantha du Toit

‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

What’s fair in conservation to locals? Just ask, study says

Nanditha Chandraprakash 9 Sep 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021

Community Conservation. photo credit: Monica Dalmasso for Honeyguide

Convergence, community and justice: Key emerging conservation trends of the pandemic era (commentary)

Fred Nelson 24 Aug 2021

Malaysian timber giant Samling takes conflict over logging activity to court

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 19 Aug 2021

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

Gloria Alvitres 13 Aug 2021

Maleo

Maleos bounce back in Sulawesi after villagers resolve to protect their eggs

Carolyn Cowan 9 Aug 2021

Sharing solutions: How a digital toolkit is strengthening Indigenous voices

Caitlin Looby 2 Aug 2021

‘Stubborn optimism’ for elephants fuels Indigenous conservation effort

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jul 2021

From Flores to Papua: Meet 10 of Indonesia’s mangrove guardians

Loren Bell 1 Jun 2021

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

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