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 ...

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 ...

This man is the last of his tribe. He survived the waves of genocidal attacks by loggers and ranchers in the 1970s and 80s which wiped out his family and his community, and many neighboring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maasai Indigenous people in Tanzania have called on Volkswagen (VW) to withdraw from a controversial carbon credits scheme which violates their rights and threatens to wreck their livelihoods. In a ...

A hugely controversial carbon credits scheme in Kenya that threatens Indigenous herders has been suspended for a second time by Verra, the main body that certifies such projects. It is an ...

An investigation into reports of atrocities by guards employed by Prince Harry’s charity African Parks has acknowledged that multiple abuses took place, confirming allegations of violence made by Baka ...

A group of Indigenous people who were evicted from their ancestral village in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in south India 40 years ago have returned to their former homes. It’s believed to be the first ...