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Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land

Indigenous Shuar community in Ecuador wins decades-long battle to protect land

Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas now includes the 5,497-hectare (13,583-acre) ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest in the country’s south.The Shuar Indigenous community of El...
For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended

For Brazil’s Indigenous people, slavery born of colonization still hasn’t ended

Since Brazil began recording cases of workers found working in slavery-like conditions in 2004, 1,640 Indigenous people have been rescued from these situations.During the...
WWF South Africa is urging nature lovers to #WearItWild to help celebrate and protect our wildlife

WWF South Africa is urging nature lovers to #WearItWild to help...

Unleash your wild side during WWF South Africa’s #Wear It Wild fun campaign and take on the special persona of your favourite animal, be...

Q&A with Louise Gray, author of ‘The Ethical Carnivore’

Mongabay recently talked...
As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on...

Between 1977 and the 1990s, the Kenyan government allocated thousands of hectares of land to salt mining companies along the country’s north coast.People had...
Why ‘mercy-killing’ wild animals is so controversial

Why ‘mercy-killing’ wild animals is so controversial

Two wild animals that strayed from their ordinary habitats were recently killed in high-profile cases. Two wild animals that strayed from their ordinary habitats and...
In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it...

A tiger entered the Kasara gharial breeding center in Chitwan National Park and killed three critically endangered gharials.The incident raised concerns that as the...