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Indigenous Peoples

Micaela Huaman Fernandez, an Asháninka stingless beekeeper, inspects a hive of Tetragonisca angustula bees. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Defending Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon

By Teresa Tomassoni

Evacuating Remote Alaska Was Hard. Rebuilding Will Be Even Harder.

By Kiley Price

José Gualinga, a leader of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, speaks at an Indigenous council event in New York City on Sept. 22. Credit: Courtesy of GARN

How a Declaration of Ancestral Wisdom Is Changing Law, Science and Our Understanding of the World

By Katie Surma

People attend the funeral of Efraín Fueres. Fueres, 46, was gunned down last month in Cotacachi, Ecuador, where he was marching in protest of high costs of living and government crackdowns on Indigenous and environmental activists. Credit: La Raíz

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters

By Katie Surma

Zebras and wildebeests roam around a swamp in Amboseli, Kenya. Credit: Eric Lafforgue/Corbis via Getty Images

The Scientists Making the Case for Nature’s Rights

By Katie Surma

Members of CONAIE observe a moment of silence honoring Efraín Fueres on Monday in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

Indigenous Land Defender Killed in Ecuador as Government Cracks Down on Environmental and Human Rights Activists

By Katie Surma

A Wayana Indigenous man sits on the embankment of the Maroni River in Southern French Guiana. Credit: Benoit Virginie

Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find

By Katie Surma

A camp and crops are seen in the proposed Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve region in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Climate and Biodiversity Knowledge We Lose When Everything’s in English

By Kiley Price

Waorani people protest against the oil tenders opened by the Ecuadorian Government on May 13 in Quito, Ecuador. Credit: Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press South via Getty Images

US Guts Criticism of Indigenous Rights Abuses, Mentions of Climate Change From Annual Human Rights Reports

By Katie Surma, Peter Aldhous

Ayshka Najib (second from right), a climate activist based in the United Arab Emirates, protests at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, UAE, in 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Ayshka Najib

The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want

By Katie Surma

A helicopter overflies the area of a collapsed dam as rescue workers search for victims near the town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil on Jan. 25, 2019. Credit: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

Rich Countries’ Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

By Katie Surma

Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community's territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines

Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?

By Katie Surma

From left: Cindy Kobei, Aimee Roberson and Whitney Gravelle sit on a panel hosted by the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network during the United Nations Permanent Forum on April 22 in New York. Credit: Katherine Quaid/WECAN

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations

By Lauren Dalban

Conta, a member of the Tagaeri and Baihuaeri Waorani Indigenous groups, appears before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights via pre recorded video on Aug. 23, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of the Inter American Court of Human Rights

Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry

By Katie Surma

Judge Tom Goldtooth addresses the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal on Feb. 28 in Toronto, Canada. Goldtooth noted that people around the world are starting to reevaluate colonial legal systems. Credit: Courtesy of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature Become a Rallying Point Against an Ascendant Mining Industry

By Katie Surma

Audience members watch a ballet performance during Indigenous Women’s Day on February 8 in the rotunda of the New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Indigenous Women Spotlight the Climate Crisis in New Mexico at Gathering Inside the Roundhouse

By Noel Lyn Smith

Sumean Gebe, from the O'Hongana Manyawa tribe, carries a Sulawesi bear cuscus after hunting on Aug. 19, 2024, in the dense forests of Halmahera, Indonesia.

A Nickel Rush Threatens Indonesia’s Last Nomadic Tribes and Its Forests, Fishermen and Farmers

Text and photos by Garry Lotulung

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