indigenous peoples

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.

Colombia has recognised the autonomy of indigenous communities across the Amazon through a new decree - described as the most important step for Amazon indigenous rights in 30 years. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

The huldufolk have disappeared from the Faroe Islands, and with them an ancient understanding of nature. They vanished when in the 1950s when the roads and the lights appeared. Now, the local community are coming to terms with further extinctions - and a threat to their own lives from coal pollution. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reviews The Islands and the Whales, out tomorrow.

Indigenous communities are dedicating themselves to protecting the land, ecosystems, and traditional cultures with thousands of years of history. In Canada, Lush Spring Prize 2017 winner Indigenous Climate Action is supporting some of those communities. Lush Times writer KATIE DANCEY-DOWNS visits Indigenous Climate Action to find out more.

Community leaders from Colombia, the Philippines and Uganda have been in London challenging attendees of the Mines and Money Conference. HANNIBAL RHOADES, TATIANA GARAVITO and SEBASTIAN ORDONEZ report.

Massacres like that reported to have taken place recently in the Amazon are sadly neither new nor uncommon. For uncontacted tribal peoples, the colonial era continues, as bandits and extractive industries, abetted by a corrupt government, inflict violence and plunder on them. LEWIS EVANS puts this brutality into context, and examines potential solutions.

A collapse in the price of uranium has not yet stopped Australian mining company GME from trying to press ahead with a massive open-pit uranium mine on an Arctic mountain in southern Greenland, writes Bill Williams - just returned from the small coastal town of Narsaq where local people and Inuit campaigners are driving the growing resistance to the ruinous project.