indigenous peoples

Commitment to preserving traditional knowledge proves successful in Indonesia.

Demonstrations against government inaction and greenwashing at COP culminated in a march of over nearly half a million people.

Leonie Bremer, 22, explains from COP25 how Fridays4Future is moving beyond holding signs to increase the pressure on every government on climate change.

Women and Indigenous peoples are losing their homes, livelihoods and lives to an insatiable and imperialist greed.

The Amazon fire crisis has been 500 years in the making – as Brazil’s indigenous people know only too well.

Eighty percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity is found in Indigenous lands. Endangered cultures are leading the fight for climate justice.

ClientEarth is supporting a world-first climate case for Torres Strait Islanders in Australia.

The Peruvian Government is updating the legal status of one of Peru's most important reserves, reportedly exposing 'isolated' indigenous groups to danger.

Coalition of indigenous groups calls for boycott of companies that invade and exploit protected Brazilian lands.

A controversial new road is tearing through the most biodiverse place in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, bringing conflict and destruction. For one indigenous group, desperate for change, it also brings hope. 

Global outcry as India’s Supreme Court threatens to evict over a million vulnerable people from forest under the guise of protecting wildlife.

Alternative viewpoints and marginalised voices are essential in the exploration and communication of climate change impacts.

Campaigners fighting the world’s biggest mining giants in Colombia visit the UK’s newest opencast coal mine.

COP24 delegates from the Peruvian Amazon shed light on corrupt climate finance and innovative alternatives.

As climate negotiations get underway in Poland, the real ground zero in the global battle against climate chaos this week is in Wet´sewet´en territory, British Colombia.

Indigenous communities fear water essential to life is becoming contaminated by the nearby ilmenite mine.

There is an urgent need for intersectionality and accountability across the charity sector.

Brazil's election on 28 October could give Jair Bolsonaro license to open up the Amazon to agriculture and mining.

Gleb Raygorodetsky reports from western Canada about what we can learn from Indigenous cultures' responses to climate change.

Pacific Islanders are merging their ancestral knowledge with modern technology in an innovative attempt to combat climate change, writes EMILY EARNSHAW

ELISA HORNETT and RITA MENDONCA report on a life-affirming canoe expedition along Brazil’s Xingu River to visit communities who say their land and livelihoods have been violated by the building of a hydroelectric plant

The Ecuadorian government is in the process of auctioning off eight million acres of largely virgin rainforest to oil companies.

The palm oil industry is causing severe environmental destruction and spiralling violence in the Peruvian Amazon. TOM YOUNGER investigates local actions and sets out ways in which you can offer support and solidarity

Australia's Aboriginal people have long been mistreated by governments and industry in the pursuit of nuclear projects. The attitudes of 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' or 'ecomodernists' towards Aboriginal people is as disrespectful as those of governments and industry, argues JIM GREEN.