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Locals fight to save ‘a piece of the sea’ in Venezuela’s Andes

María Fernanda Rodríguez and Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 5 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022

Historic EU law against deforestation-linked imports ignores Brazil’s Cerrado

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2022
Heng Saphen and her daughter, Chan Lay Phiek

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2022

In first for Indonesia, government recognizes Indigenous Papuans’ ancestral forests

Asrida Elisabeth, Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Dec 2022

Mapping of Indigenous lands ramps up in Indonesia — without official recognition

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2022

Fighting extractive industries in Ecuador: Q&A with Indigenous rights activist María Espinosa

Maxwell Radwin 22 Aug 2022
tiger problem nepal

As Nepal’s tigers thrive, Indigenous knowledge may be key in preventing attacks

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Jun 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022

Plan to carve up Indonesian Papua rings alarm over fate of people and forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Apr 2022

Fires threaten vital peatland in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2022

Spurred by investor-friendly law, palm oil firms sue to get licenses back

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Papua clan takes first step toward official recognition of land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong, Natalia Laurensia Carmelia Yewen 26 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s leader touts green goals at COP26, but overlooks green stewards at home

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Nov 2021

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2021

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2021

For Indonesian MPs, Indigenous rights may be bad for business, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Sep 2021

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

Indigenous Dayak man jailed after Indonesian palm oil firm alleges theft

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2021

Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Mar 2021

81 Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders slam BlackRock in open letter

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2021

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jan 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in ‘conflict’ palm oil, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2021
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

State neglect means Indigenous Papuans’ victory over palm oil firm is shaky

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Sep 2020

New Indigenous storytelling platform brings community perspectives to the world

Liz Kimbrough 10 Aug 2020

Indonesian parliament to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with Indigenous group

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2020

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