Latoya Abulu is a Contributing Editor for Mongabay, an environmental news organization. With a focus on indigenous rights and environmental justice, Latoya's articles shed light on the impacts of resource extraction on local communities, the importance of community-led conservation efforts, and the challenges faced by indigenous people in protecting their lands and livelihoods.
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By: Aimee Gabay, Latoya Abulu
From Oct. 21 to Nov. 1, Indigenous and local community leaders from around the world will gather at the latest U.N. biodiversity conference, or COP16, which delegates say is poised to be a “historic” conference that could mark a turning point for both biodiversity and those who protect it. Ahead of the talks, several delegates […]
By: Latoya Abulu
The world’s leading conservationists will flock to Cali, Colombia, this October for the U.N. biodiversity conference, COP16. Within Cali’s bustling urban environment, it’s easy to forget that the city lies at the foothills of Los Farallones de Cali, a major biodiversity hotspot and national park in the Andean mountain range. Migratory birds fly overhead and crystal-clear streams flow into the urban environment. The city is crisscrossed by several rivers and has one of the greatest bird diversity in the country. But the beauty of the region produces a blissful ignorance. At the conference, attendees will not be exposed to how antiquated conservation tactics have resulted in antagonisms between the state and the locals who reside in this Andean paradise right beside them. Nor will they see how these conservation methods have been unable to solve the complexities of economically insecure locals engaging in illegal gold mining. Biologist Valentina Paz Aramburo near Peñas Blancas, Los Farallones de Cali, Valle de Cauca, Colombia. Image by Alex Reep. When the national parks system (Parques) arrived to declare Los Farallones a national park in the 1960s, many locals say that the state adopted a hostile approach to conservation by imposing borders around the park zone, halting construction within, seizing farms, and removing people from their land. Their tactics reflect fortress conservation, a conservation model that assumes biodiversity is best protected by creating areas with zero human disturbance. This model views humans as separate from nature, often displacing Indigenous groups and long-term locals, even if…This article was originally published on Mongabay
By: Adam D. Williams, Latoya Abulu
SANTA MARTA, Panama — Mauricio Martínez was convinced he was going to die. The year was 2021 and Martínez, gravely ill with COVID-19, struggled to breathe, walk and swallow food. As his condition deteriorated, he decided that instead of being intubated in a hospital in the nation’s capital of Panama City, he’d prefer to pass […]
By: Rony Brodsky, Sushil, Minnie Degawan
Although 17% of all forest carbon and 39% of global lands in good ecological condition are managed or governed by Indigenous Peoples, just a tiny
By: Ashish Kothari, Shrishtee Bajpai
Across the world, Indigenous and other communities embedded in nature have articulated, as part their resistance to external domination, an inseparability of nature from all human activity.
By: Cesar Quiroz, Tony Kirby, Anna Abraham
Carlos Andrés Ascué Tumbo, a 30-year-old Indigenous land guardian and educator, was the 115th social leader killed in Colombia this year.
As COP29 runs Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Indigenous leaders look ahead to show their strong participation, although many leaders are setting their sights on this conference to prepare better for the next COP.
By: Aimee Gabay
The EU Parliament has voted to postpone the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by one year after strong opposition to the law from EU member states, export countries, traders, and operators.
In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from the Kahuzi-Biega National Park was a violation of their rights. With this communication, made public in June 2024, came a list of 19 recommendations for the DRC government to implement to […]
Facing sea level rise and food insecurity, 17 families from the Carteret Islands have relocated to nearby Bougainville, bringing hundreds of specimens
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