In the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, the indigenous community of Sungai Utik has been protecting 10,000 hectares ...

Indigenous leaders hailed a major breakthrough in a new global biodiversity pact adopted early Monday morning in Montreal, as ...

Indigenous representatives from all nine Amazon Basin countries, gathered in the Peruvian capital Lima this week, pressed ...

When Gib Tonnarmpech and her family were forced to leave their home in Thailand's Kaeng Krachan National Park by authorities, ...

A river has won legal rights for the first time in Canadian history, in a move hailed by environmentalists as a new way to ...

For decades, indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo has been battling to keep her Amazon rainforest home in Ecuador safe from exploitation by oil companies - now she hopes U.S. President-elect Joe Biden ...

In Canada's British Columbia, the mountainous West Kootenay region forms a rare inland temperate rainforest, where the Sinixt ...

The Trump administration is initiating formal meetings with Native American tribes in the southwestern U.S. as it considers revoking a 20-year ban of oil and gas development across of hundreds of ...

Taiwan's legislature has passed a special act allowing Pingpu Plains Indigenous groups to apply for official recognition. The move comes ahead of a court-mandated deadline and marks a turning point in ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to significantly weaken a key Voting Rights Act provision that prohibits states from diluting the power of minority voters — a ...