Indigenous Peoples

The campaign to halt climate breakdown ecological destruction is bound up with the fate of the world’s Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples, shifting cultivators and rural women lose out under the UN REDD+ programmes.

Climate breakdown is the consequence of a flawed development system that we have considered normal for too long.

The Indigenous Arctic peoples losing their home and heritage to the climate breakdown.

Estela Casanto Mauricio, a Peruvian indigenous leader, was killed for her advocacy for the right to live in a healthy environment.

Welcome to the all-women producers’ collective in the Indian Himalayas.

More experts are arguing in favour of human compassion.

Communities in southern Madagascar impacted by water pollution are still waiting for basic public health information from mining giant Rio Tinto.

Factory schools threaten the survival of Indigenous culture.

Community leader shares how the Indigenous Tharakan people are pursuing decolonisation and building resilience to COVID-19 and climate change.

The Karen Indigenous People in Myanmar founded the Salween Peace Park to protect their mega-diverse territory and their culture from extractivism and conflict.

A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.

New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.

Worsening fires and deforestation in the Amazon are exacerbating the situation for indigenous people, who are already more vulnerable to Covid-19, scientists say.

Indigenous peoples can inspire future global food systems towards more sustainable and just societies

The Covid-19 pandemic has restricted protests by climate activists for several months, but Extinction Rebellion (XR) is planning its comeback.

Indigenous communities in Latin America are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from their practices.

For Indigenous communities living in Northern Kenya, the threat of Covid-19 is exacerbated by food insecurity and malnutrition.

How do the Maasai in northern Tanzania reconcile their values of reciprocity and social interaction with social distancing and the impacts of globalisation?

The Arhuaco people eat meat, but still have much in common with vegans.

The Bagungu People are reviving indigenous practices and ecosystems in one of Africa's most biodiverse regions.

'At the time of filming, 100 percent of the youth in Australia's Alice Springs detention centres were Aboriginal.'

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.