The adoption of the Regalian doctrine during the Spanish colonial period marks a pivotal and damaging event in the history of land use in the Philippines. The doctrine, which declared that all land ...

Given their courage during the war between Paraguay and Bolivia in the 1930s, the Maká people were given a piece of land that ...

Global brands, also including Meta and Gucci, have paid millions of pounds for carbon credits from a project in Kenya, which ...

Randy Borman was never meant to be Cofán. And yet, from the moment he was born in 1955, deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he ...

Indigenous communities in Argentine Patagonia ... emergency in the region which entitled them to claim ancestral land ownership. “It will bring consequences that everyone will regret,” a ...

Indigenous leaders in a Philippines protected landscapes sign a landmark deal to try to reduce forest loss with carbon ...

Yet a few elders among these Paraguayan Indigenous people recall ... to get back. The land in dispute is an 828-acre (335 hectare) terrain that the Maká claim ownership over.