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Record drought in Yucatán prompts revival of ancient Maya rain ceremony

Mark Viales 29 Aug 2024

Indigenous communities sidelined for Suriname’s new carbon credit program, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 26 Aug 2024

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2024

Communities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land rights bill

Maxwell Radwin 13 Aug 2024

Garifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling

Aimee Gabay 17 Jul 2024

As logging booms in Suriname, forest communities race to win land rights

Maxwell Radwin 4 Jul 2024

Colombian victims win historic lawsuit over banana giant Chiquita

Aimee Gabay 1 Jul 2024

BASF, Eramet drop $2.6b Indonesian nickel project that threatens isolated tribe

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2024

#AllEyesonPapua goes viral to highlight threat to Indigenous forests from palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jun 2024

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024
Chun Seiha demonstrates the forest loss across Chi Ouk Boeung Prey, where almost all the large, valuable trees have been logged by Santana Agro. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Gerald Flynn 5 Jun 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 20 May 2024

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Dimitri Selibas 20 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024

Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’

Sarah Sax 14 May 2024

Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2024

Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2024
oil spill Peru

Latest Peruvian oil spill cuts Indigenous communities from life-giving river

Sarah Brown 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024

Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado

Dimitri Selibas 17 Apr 2024

Indigenous efforts to save Peru’s Marañon River could spell trouble for big oil

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024

Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Feb 2024
A torrent of mining waste killed nearly 300 people when a tailings dam at Vale’s mine in Brumadinho collapsed in 2019.

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Sarah Sax 21 Feb 2024
ecuador infrastructure

Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024
Salmon being traditionally baked by Council Member Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation.

First ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared in California

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2024

Outcry over deforestation as Suriname’s agriculture plans come to light

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jan 2024
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile again rejects Constitution rewrite; experts say no big loss for environment

Boris van der Spek 9 Jan 2024

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