Latoya Abulu is a Contributing Editor at Mongabay. She focuses on critical issues surrounding climate change and the environment, with a particular emphasis on agriculture, water management, and natural resources. Latoya's insightful work has also been featured in ENVIROLINK LIMITED and Scroll Media.
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Latoya Abulu's articles predominantly focus on indigenous rights, environmental conservation, and the impact of government policies. She often includes expert commentary and cites data in her coverage. Therefore, she is likely to be receptive to pitches that provide well-researched insights from experts in fields such as anthropology, environmental science, or indigenous studies.
Given the frequent mention of government announcements and policy-related topics in her coverage attributes, Latoya may also be interested in receiving pitches related to governmental initiatives affecting indigenous communities or environmental conservation efforts.
Since agriculture and farming are also significant themes covered by Latoya, she may welcome pitches featuring stories about sustainable agricultural practices within indigenous communities or any intersection between agriculture/farming with the other topics she covers.
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By: Latoya Abulu
The Chinju no Mori Project has planted more than 680,000 trees along Japan's coastline to mitigate the impact of tsunamis.
By: Latoya Abulu
To mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples and better understand the subtleties in biodiversity conservation and climate
By: Latoya Abulu
For more than a millennium, Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian traditions in China have shaped conservation practices at Tianmu mountain, with beliefs
By: Latoya Abulu, Karla Mendes
CARAMURU/PARAGUASSU INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a forest. “When we got sick, that’s where we got our medicine from,” Oliveira, known as Dona Marta, 87, told Mongabay. An Indigenous elder of the Kariri-Sapuyá people, she stands […]
By: Keith Anthony Fabro, Latoya Abulu
PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — The forest settles into a gentle rhythm as the trail climbs into the Iraya Mangyan ancestral domain in Puerto Galera town, on the Philippines’ Mindoro Island. Only birdsong breaks the silence as towering trees sway overhead. A clear stream tumbles across the trail over smooth rocks. Ahead walks 43-year-old Lenito Pampilo. Every […]
By: Edward Carver, Latoya Abulu
DUNEDIN, New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conservation groups: His administration would turn a swath of waters far larger than the country’s land mass into a marine protected area (MPA). The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, planned for […]
By: Latoya Abulu, Euan Wallace
LA GUAJIRA, Colombia — Feet from the ocean, four sharks and a ray lie dead on the wind-battered sand. Above them stands Wilfrido Arends, 46. The blade of a short knife glints in his hand. Carefully, he bends down to cut a small fin from the underside of one shark — an endangered species known […]
By: Aimee Gabay, Latoya Abulu
Francisco Hernández Cayetano, president of the Federation of Ticuna and Yagua Communities of the Lower Amazon (FECOTYBA), is raising the alarm about the latest threats related to drug trafficking in the Amazon’s tri-border area. Living along riverbanks and lowland forests in the remote area where Peru, Colombia and Brazil meet, the Ticuna and Yagua people […]
By: Gentry Hale, Latoya Abulu
WICHABAI, Guyana — At sunrise in Guyana’s South Rupununi, Leroy Ignacio stops beside a tree scored with large claw marks. The animal responsible was a giant anteater. “They even rub their backs on the trunk to leave a scent behind,” says Ignacio, president of the South Rupununi Conservation Society (SRCS), as he demonstrates the motion. […]
By: Latoya Abulu
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size determines social position, and many people keep all their wealth in livestock, not banks. In recent years, however, Msami and others have been forced to sell the animals and buy goats, which can handle drought better but […]
