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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights

Aimee Gabay 24 Jul 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
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Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Aimee Gabay 6 Jun 2025

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jun 2025
Sakda Khayankitphuanphon took reporters into the old mining tunnels to see the fluorite that Universal Mining seeks to extract from the mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Gerald Flynn 4 Jun 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2025

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2025

German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025
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New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk

Carla Ruas 6 Mar 2025

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2025
CTPH also supports alternative livelihoods through a social enterprise, Gorilla Conservation Coffee, which supports and markets premium coffee grown by farmers near Bwindi. Image courtesy of Jo-Anne McArthur.

Coffee companies are readier for the EUDR than they claim (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Feb 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

As the gold rush surges in Nicaragua, Indigenous communities pay the price

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025

In Honduras, communities race to establish reserve as La Mosquitia forest disappears

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2025
Maasai herder in Morogoro, not far from Ruaha National Park. Image by Shengena Killel/IFRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

World Bank cancels $150m tourism project in Tanzania after abuse claims

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 22 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 30 Dec 2024

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

Liz Kimbrough 22 Nov 2024

Evolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2024
Tikuna man fishing in Colombia

Colombia decree recognizes Indigenous people as environmental authorities

Aimee Gabay 30 Oct 2024

‘Glimmers of promise’ for 30×30 goal as UN report calls for boosted efforts

Liz Kimbrough 29 Oct 2024

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