More than 30 members of Indigenous communities from Biliqo Bulesa in Kenya have filed a lawsuit against a carbon credit project on their land run by the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT). The Northern ...

“Conservation must be led by Indigenous Peoples, because we know better.” Nairobi: A unique gathering of Indigenous people impacted by conservation has demanded that “our ancestral lands, including ...

We, the Indigenous Peoples of the world, are the guardians who have an embedded customary relationship with our lands, waters and territories. Our ecosystems do not belong to us, we belong to them. We ...

Campaigners today hailed the completion of the physical demarcation of land belonging to the Kawahiva, one of the Amazon’s most vulnerable uncontacted peoples — a full 27 years after their presence on ...

In The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Steven Pinker promotes a fictitious, colonialist image of a backward “Brutal Savage,” which pushes the debate on tribal peoples’ rights back over a century ...

Jair Bolsonaro has made many racist and offensive remarks about Indigenous peoples in Brazil, over a long period of time. This is a selection. Jair Bolsonaro, a far right, nationalist politician, took ...

Dozens of police officers in India have arrested the prominent Indigenous rights activist Pranab Doley, and two other men. Two others surrendered to the court after police came looking for them.

Maasai people have protested in one of Tanzania’s most important tourism destinations over their eviction in the name of conservation. The protests on World Heritage Day aim to highlight UNESCO’s ...

Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations. The commissions were established by ...

More than 100 Indigenous Ayoreo-Totobiegosode people, most of whom were forcibly contacted between 1979 and 2004, are blockading a major Paraguayan highway in the heart of South America — trying to ...

An Indigenous man who was born uncontacted in the Indonesian rainforest has traveled to Europe for the first time to lobby French mining giant Eramet over its destruction of his people’s land. Ngigoro ...

Calls are growing for the Indian government to scrap its controversial Great Nicobar project after it suffered a series of setbacks in recent weeks. They include: • The Tribal Affairs Ministry has ...