Indigenous People

Explained: Indigenous people and the nature they protect

Globally, Indigenous people own or use a quarter of the world's land, but safeguard 80 per cent of the biodiversity. It is found that the total number of birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles were highest on lands managed or co-managed by them

For Madhya Pradesh's tribals, too wide a gap between state policies and reality

A five-year roadmap for overall development of tribals was on the agenda when Narendra Modi visited Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

This land is our land: The Soliga community struggles to save its old ways of living while adapting to modernity

The inability to perform shifting agriculture and live close to the canopy of the forest has affected the Soligas' livelihoods, their kitchens, as well as the forest itself.

Green Oscar 2021 winner Nuklu Phom strives to continue connecting indigineous communities and form Biodiversity Peace Corridor

Church worker Nuklu Phom belongs to the Phom indigenous community in Nagaland in northeast India. He is noted for his work in connecting communities to conserve biodiversity and switch to sustainable livelihoods in his ancestral village. The effort led to the increase in congregations of the long-distance migratory bird Amur falcon, and other wildlife, in the community-conserved area centred around his village.

200 years after independence, Túpac Amaru, Micaela Bastidas remain pillars of Indigenous identity in Peru

This year, the bicentennial of Peru’s 1821 independence from Spain, Túpac Amaru and wife Micaela Bastidas are increasingly celebrated as having laid the groundwork for that struggle.

Biologists, ingenious people flock together to save the endangered Colombian condor

The condors are monogamous birds and the females lay only one egg every two to three years.

Citizenship status in limbo, fate of Chakma tribe in Arunachal underscores question of who belongs, who doesn't

The case of the Chakmas of Arunachal Pradesh under both Congress and BJP rule proves that in actual practice, it is the state governments that determine who gets or doesn’t get citizenship.

Why I want to secede from India

Mizoram’s Prism Party proposes and advocates the right to secession bill to ensure that the UN indigenous peoples declaration is followed in letter and spirit

Tibetan nomads forcibly 'resettled' by China struggle with loss of an over 8,000-year-old heritage

For more than 8,000 years, Tibetan nomads have lived in perfect harmony with their surroundings.

Indigenous communities practice effective forest conservation, but remain excluded from policy

Indigenous peoples perhaps have been the best guardians of the Earth's natural resources, but they are increasingly being deprived of land