Indigenous Wins

Community-based conservation is a good climate investment in Brazil & beyond (commentary)

Fifty years of doubt overturned: local communities protect nature better than top-down rules.

MSU hosts welcome event, kicks off Indigenous culture celebration

MSU invites everyone to build a traditional birch bark canoe over four days.

Insect remains reveal Indigenous burial practices in the Canary Islands

More than 8,000 insect remains show Indigenous Canary Islanders stored grain in caves before

Jam-packed festival will celebrate Indigenous creativity and brilliance

An award-winning Indigenous arts festival returns for its fifth year in Vancouver this September.

One woman's mission to revive pride in a forgotten tradition - Scrolla.Africa

One woman founded a group to reconnect South African youth with their lost indigenous roots.

This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets

A single cave in Australia hides evidence of rituals stretching back 25,000 years.

Protected: When nature heals: Ultima Frontiera looks ahead to a flourishing future

An 800-hectare abandoned fish farm in the Danube Delta is being turned back into wild wetlands.

‘They should choose their own destinies’: Manish Chandi on India’s isolated tribes

A tribe chooses isolation, and India protects their right to be left alone.

Tsawwassen First Nation welcomes back sacred object taken away a century ago | CBC News

A sacred object stolen a century ago finally returns to the Tsawwassen First Nation.

Indigenous ceremony - Taipei Times

Paiwan elders perform a blessing ceremony to share Taiwan's indigenous culture with thousands.

Mozambique protects Mount Mabu ‘butterfly forest’

Mozambique just protected a forest home to over 200 butterfly species, and locals now guard it.

Nigeria’s Rachel Ikemeh wins Rolex Award for efforts to save rare red monkey

A woman in Nigeria just won a top conservation award for saving one of the world's rarest monkeys.

Indonesia seeks to bring back baby orangutans allegedly trafficked to India

Five baby orangutans found motherless in an Indian forest are being flown home to Indonesia.

Navigating the currents of change: A conversation with Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw III - resilience

Four dams on the Klamath River are coming down after a decades-long Indigenous-led fight.

Desert Mob art festival celebrates link between Aboriginal art and land rights - ABC News

A painting by a traditional healer won a $10,000 art award for celebrating 50 years of Aboriginal

Chowna Mein Calls for Preservation of Indigenous Languages and Cultural Heritage

A deputy chief minister urges tech tools and new teachers to keep vanishing tribal languages alive.

Toronto’s Indigenous Film and Industry Slates Aim to Grow Audiences and Spark Biz by Reflecting the Diversity of Global Screen Culture

The Naga people premiere their very first feature film at TIFF 2026.

‘Our forefathers are coming back’: Naga people celebrate after Oxford museum agrees to return remains

After nearly a century, 39 Naga ancestors finally come home from an Oxford museum.

Indigenous fisherwoman finds ‘lost’ spinach pipefish, not seen by science in 40 years

A fish missing from science for 40 years turned up in an Indigenous woman's hand net.

Jane Goodall Tacare conservation: In 1994, Jane Goodall's JGI launched Tacare in 12 Gombe villages of Tanzania to fight deforestation. 27 years later, forest cover in community reserves had risen 66% across the area - The Economic Times

In 27 years, community-run reserves in Gombe saw forest cover jump 66%.