Indigenous peoples

Julia Francisco Martinez, the widow of Indigenous activist and human rights defender Francisco Martinez Marquez who was murdered in 2015.

View: The EU must act on the brutal killings of climate defenders

Indigenous groups are teaming up with local governments to protect Ecuador's rainforests.

Indigenous groups team up with the government to protect the Amazon

Campaigners maintained a blockade for 550 days until earlier this month, stopping the mining company commencing work on the dam.

An endangered owl has stopped a mining giant in its tracks in Tasmania

Displaced people flee the scene of an attack in DRC.

Why the plan to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030 is fatally flawed

Avocado on the left, natural forest on the right

Avocados are bringing ‘violence and blood’ to this Mexican town

02/02/2022

The beautiful Cajamarca region in Colombia that local communities are fighting to protect.

Colombian farmers take on David vs. Goliath fight to stop gold mining

08/12/2021

Deforestation surrounds massive limestone quarries cut into the mountains of Ipoh in Malaysia.

Beef and coffee to be certified ‘deforestation-free’ under new EU law

18/11/2021

Land inequality is directly threatening 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people, especially women.

What is land inequality and how does it threaten women?

09/11/2021

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples have been shown to be the best guardians of Latin America's forests.

Giving Indigenous groups land rights 'vital' to tackling deforestation

09/08/2021

File photo about Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Arctic Refuge oil drilling: delayed or halted?

29/01/2021

A female polar bear with two cubs in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Why Trump’s final attempt to drill Arctic oil was an ‘epic failure’

07/01/2021

Young girl from the River Pindaré Indigenous community - Maranhão

Indigenous photographer captures tribe fighting for the rainforest

11/12/2020

Xiutezcatl Roske-Martinez is a 20-year-old climate activist and hip-hop artist.

Meet Indigenous activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

23/10/2020