American tennis players – brothers John and Patrick McEnroe – are set to host a luxury tennis-themed safari tour in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), where Indigenous Maasai people are protesting the Tanzanian government’s forced eviction of them from their ancestral homes.

The signatory organisations call on the government of Kenya to immediately cease all evictions in the Mau Forest, as they are in violation of Kenyan law, as well as the judgements of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in the Ogiek case.

Stop the evictions of Ogiek and all forest communities that have been living in harmony with nature for generations. These communities are the guardians of the forest, protecting its biodiversity and ecosystem services. They have customary rights to their lands and resources, which are recognized by international law and the Constitution.

John Waconda, Isleta Pueblo and Laguna Pueblo, came out of retirement to work with The Nature Conservancy in the fall of 2021. He is the first Indigenous Partnerships program manager in the conservancy’s New Mexico chapter.

IPLP Bay and Paul Foundations Fellow, Kiptoo together with delegates from the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), while attending the Subsidiary Body on Science Technical and Technological Advice (SABSSTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Nairobi met with Mr. David Cooper, the Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD)

Native peoples have long collected environmental data. Now scientists are cataloguing these observations and learning how they're affecting indigenous communities globally

In this roundtable, three women from indigenous peoples in East Africa will discuss the impacts of green colonialism on themselves and their communities with three experts who work with the UN Special Procedures.

Indigenous food systems and traditional land management techniques are the best options for tackling ecological restoration. However, outdated scientific models and conservative views on environmentalism have led many researchers to overlook and discount traditional ecological knowledge held by Indigenous peoples.

Amazon Watch - Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vetoed crucial sections of Bill 2903, which aimed to restrict Indigenous peoples' ability to secure recognition of their ancestral territories, following two weeks of campaigning by the Indigenous movement and environmental and Indigenous rights organizations in Oakland, CA.

The Ogiek community, residing in the Maasai Mau Forest, particularly in the regions of Sasimwani and Nkareta, is facing an impending humanitarian crisis as local authorities, acting on directives from higher authorities, have issued eviction orders to the community. These orders compel the Ogiek to vacate their ancestral lands immediately, without regard for their well-being or future.