In Amanda Subish’s family, they have a story about her Uncle Maurice that shows the power of Indigenous culture, heritage, and traditional ecological knowledge. Maurice Magante, of the Pauma Band of ...

By Sonam Lama Hyolmo “The land is the greatest asset we have,” said Luzineth Pataxó, a Pataxó leader from the ...

In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the ...

By Shanna Hanbury A Brazilian federal court has sentenced a key financier to more than 22 years in prison. He was found ...

For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...

Native American backpackers in Northeast Oregon’s Joseph Canyon stop to savor their connection with the land during a backpacking trip in January 2018. The canyon was named after the legendary Chief ...

The global #LandBack movement, with its powerful demand to go beyond claims of “decolonization” and “reconciliation” by returning land to the stewardship Indigenous people, may seem like a fantasy.

Whether stewardship rights, such as those granted through land trusts and the like, constitute Land Back is a great question. The question and its framing are instructive of the very issues the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A ballot question proposing a multiuse vision for the former Hughes Stadium site in Fort Collins has one unusual stipulation: It ...

The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela De León, members of the SIRGE ...