Latoya Abulu is a Contributing Editor at Mongabay. She focuses on themes related to climate change and the environment, including energy, mining, water conservation, and climate policy, with a particular interest in regional issues in Latin America. Latoya's work has been featured in Mongabay, 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
Illegal invasions in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Pará state, home to isolated Igarapé Ipiaçava Indigenous people, has continued despite being protected by one of the latest land use restriction orders, in 2022, according to satellite analysis by Mongabay. This follows a series of protective orders over the years by the country’s Indigenous affairs […]
By: Latoya Abulu, Mike Digirolamo
“That might be something that you see in a decade, not in two years of filming,” Tara Stoinksi, CEO of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, tells me. The behavior she’s referring to occurs in mountain gorilla groups, such as a “dominance transfer,” where a younger male silverback takes over leadership from an older male, and […]
By: Latoya Abulu, Anthony Ham
LAJAMANU, Australia — A group of Warlpiri men and women gathered along one of the most remote tracks in Australia and stared intently at the ground. Here in the Tanami Desert, along the dirt back road between Lajamanu and Tennant Creek, they all agreed that the tracks they could see told a story: A dingo, […]
By: Juliette Chapalain, Latoya Abulu
Five months after the passing of conservation icon Jane Goodall in 2025, Mongabay met her grandson, Merlin Van Lawick, at the ChangeNOW 2026 environmental forum in Paris. It was a first trip to the French capital for Van Lawick, who was born, raised and lives today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has been connected […]
By: Latoya Abulu, Maxwell Radwin
More than a decade ago, officials in Paraguay expanded a biosphere reserve in the Gran Chaco, hoping to protect more of the world’s largest tropical dry forest and the Indigenous communities who live there. But a lack of enforcement has left the reserve vulnerable to deforestation caused by agribusiness and cattle ranching, observers say. Approximately […]
By: Latoya Abulu, Olivia Ferrari
When Robert Jago’s brother-in-law, a local politician in Montreal, Canada, shared a photo on Facebook greeting Indigenous leaders, Jago said he immediately knew the leaders as frauds. “They were kind of a fake meetup band,” said Jago, whose podcast explores the phenomenon of groups pretending to be Indigenous. “People know so little, they get suckered […]
By: Aimee Gabay, Latoya Abulu
In 2023, Ecuadorians voted for a binding referendum to end oil drilling in the 43-ITT oil block in Yasuní National Park. In 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) echoed the call in a ruling for the Ecuadorian state to do more to protect uncontacted Indigenous peoples whose territories overlap with the park. But […]
By: Latoya Abulu, John Cannon
In northwestern Australia lies a remote and wildly diverse region called the Kimberley. There, the iron-red soils of the Pindan Country connect forests and the Great Sandy Desert, all bracketed by a vast stretch of Indian Ocean coastline. Its springs and wetlands host migratory birds. Offshore, sawfish, as visually striking as they are rare, ply […]
By: Latoya Abulu
BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo — In the lush forests of North Kivu, Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. leads a forest patrol with members of his community. Together, they monitor human activity, identify threats and prevent damage to biodiversity, such as large-scale logging, unregulated timber harvesting and artisanal mining. “For example, once a month or once […]
