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Indigenous Peoples

A jaguar rescued from animal trafficking is seen at the Santa Cruz Foundation in Cundinamarca, Colombia. Credit: Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Jaguars, Macaws and Tropical Dry Forest Have a Right To Exist, a Colombian Court Is Told

By Katie Surma

Young people from Amazonian communities march during the Pan-Amazon Social Forum in Rurrenabaque, Bolivia on June 12. Credit: Katie Surma/Inside Climate News

To Save the Amazon, What if We Listened to Those Living Within It?

By Katie Surma

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

A member of the Indigenous Baduy tribe works at his field on Indonesia's Java island. Anthropologist Gonzalo Oviedo says Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia “tend to recognize many more varieties of plant subspecies.” Credit: Bay Ismoyo/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: To Save The Planet, Traditional Indigenous Knowledge Is Indispensable

By Katie Surma

“We are Ome Yasuni.” Members of the Baihuaeri community of Bameno stand before a ceibo tree in their ancestral territory inside Yasuni National Park. Credit: photo courtesy of the Ome Yasuni association and Javier Awa Baihua.

After Decades Of Oil Drilling, Indigenous Waorani Group Fights New Industry Expansions In Ecuador

By Katie Surma

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Eduardo Mendúa (center), an Indigenous Ecuadorian activist fighting oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest, was shot to death in his garden on Sunday. Photo Courtsey of Kayla Jenkins

Eduardo Mendúa, Ecuadorian Who Fought Oil Extraction on Indigenous Land, Is Shot to Death

By Katie Surma

José Pepe Manuyama, who is featured in the documentary film "Stepping Softly on the Earth," stands before a graveyard in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Marcos Colón.

Director Marcos Colón Takes an Intimate Look at Three Indigenous Leaders’ Fight to Preserve Their Ancestral Connection to Nature in the Amazon

By Katie Surma

Flares burning off gas at Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site which is the fourth largest oil field in California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups and Native Leaders Say Proposed Venting and Flaring Rule Falls Short

By Autumn Jones

The Cacique Nelson, of the tribe of Guaranis, walks in a deforested area of the old Atlantic Forest on Jan. 26, 2017. Credit: Diego Herculano/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Study Documents a Halt to Deforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest After Indigenous Communities Gain Title to Their Territories

By Katie Surma

A rainbow touches down on the Kokalik River, in northwestern Alaska, winds its way through the National Petroleum Reserve. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Biden Administration Allows Controversial Arctic Oil Project to Proceed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Indigenous activist Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, poses at the premiere of National Geographic Documentary Film 'The Territory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 5, 2022. Credit: Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest

By Kiley Bense

Satere-Mawe indigenous leader Valdiney Satere collects caferana, a native plant of the Amazon rainforest, used as medicinal herb, in the Taruma neighbourhood, a rural area west of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, in May 2020. Credit: Ricardo Oliveira/AFP via Getty Images.

In the Amazon, Indigenous and Locally Controlled Land Stores Carbon, but the Rest of the Rainforest Emits Greenhouse Gases

By Bob Berwyn, Katie Surma

Ann Tenakhongva, right, 62, and her husband, Clark Tenakhongva, 65, sort traditional Hopi corn at their home on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in late September, 2022. The corn comes from the family's field in the valley between First Mesa and Second Mesa, which Clark had just harvested. The corn is organized on racks to dry out and then stored in cans and bins for years to come. Much of the corn is ground up for food and ceremonial uses. Credit: David Wallace

Corn Nourishes the Hopi Identity, but Climate-Driven Drought Is Stressing the Tribe’s Foods and Traditions

By David Wallace

Blanca Chancosa, juíza do Tribunal Internacional dos Direitos da Natureza e líder indígena equatoriana, examina parte da maior mina de minério de ferro do mundo, de propriedade da gigante brasileira de mineração Vale, em 23 de julho de 2022. Crédito: Katie Surma

Mil Milhas na Amazônia, para Mudar a Maneira como o Mundo Funciona

By Katie Surma

Juan Mancias, chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo tribe, at the Eli Jackson Cemetery in San Juan, Texas on Feb. 11, 2019. Credit: Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune

Indigenous Leaders in Texas Target Global Banks to Keep LNG Export Off of Sacred Land at the Port of Brownsville

By Dylan Baddour

Blanca Chancosa, a judge with the International Rights of Nature tribunal and an Ecuadorian Indigenous leader, looks into part of the world's largest iron ore mine owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale on July 23, 2022. Credit: Katie Surma

A Thousand Miles in the Amazon, to Change the Way the World Works

By Katie Surma

People hike near Thule Air Base on March 25, 2017 in Pituffik, Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Despite Misunderstandings, Scientists and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic Have Collaborated on Research Into Mercury Pollution

By Myriam Vidal

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