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 ...

Last month, Land Rights Defenders, a nonprofit protecting Indigenous land rights around the globe, launched “Art Meets Activism,” an Indiegogo campaign that fuses art and activism to amplify the ...

Habitat protection expands on Oregon’s North Coast For Indigenous people of the Oregon Coast, land and water are not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indigenous territories are a crucial bulwark against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new peer-reviewed study shows they also safeguard the health of millions living there. The study, ...

Twenty months ago, Durango City Council decided the city needed an official statement acknowledging the cultural heritage and history of the land it was built on. This week, City Council was presented ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers found this by overlaying maps of Indigenous people’s lands (IPLs) with recently published of millions of alien species from around the ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American woman and her daughter walked onto a 5-acre parcel of land, ...

"At COP30, countries rarely discussed the rights of indigenous peoples. Most progress for these groups took place outside the ...

At the Nupqu Native Plant Nursery in the Canadian province of British Columbia, sulfur buckwheat seedlings fill Styrofoam ...