Social Media Ideas for Borneo Indigenous Communities

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm

JAKARTA — Indonesian lawmakers have called for a government fact-finding probe into a long-running conflict between an Indigenous community in Borneo and an industrial timber compa...

A blueprint for effective activism 10 years after defeating a dam in Borneo (analysis)

In October 2015, Indigenous activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Brazil, the United States, and Honduras, together with delegates from longhouse communiti...

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Ruos Lim knows what is at stake as he sets off with 10 men to patrol the Chom Penh forest. Lim is part of the Kuy people who have relied on the forests in...

In Malaysia, over 1,000 Orang Asli rally for land rights: ‘we’re not going anywhere’

More than 1,000 Orang Asli, the indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia, rallied outside a federal ministry in Putrajaya on Friday in a rare mass protest to demand recognition of...

New Indonesia roadmap aims to protect Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity

Indonesia is developing a roadmap to recognize and protect Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ traditional knowledge in biodiversity conservation, aligning with its commitme...

New Indonesia roadmap aims to protect Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is developing a roadmap to protect local wisdom in biodiversity conservation, a move aimed at strengthening the recognition and protection of In...

Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest

Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo granted 31 community forest land titles to farmers in May, bringing a total of more than a million hectares of forest in Tsh...

Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection

Across the small islands of eastern Indonesia that lie within the Wallacea region, one of the world’s richest marine biodiversity regions, coastal communities are reviving ancient...

Papua New Guinea Bets on Indigenous Communities to Protect 700,000 Hectares of Highlands

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 11 (IPS) - The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved USD 6.4 million for a new conservation initiative in Papua New Guinea that seeks to prote...

Australia establishes the first Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For the Karajarri people of Kimberley in northwe...

Kg Betangga Highland villagers in Sabah allege land encroachment, urge MACC, police and Native Court probe

SIPITANG, June 29 — Villagers from Kg Betangga Highland have called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (M...

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

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 hu...

Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Receive $9M in GEF Funding to Protect Lands, Traditions Under Threat

BELÉM, Brazil, May 21 (IPS) - On Brazil’s northeastern coast, the Indigenous community, Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú, lives on a preserved stretch of land shaped by mangroves, dune...

Adivasis demand halt to tiger safari push, evictions in south India forests

Indigenous communities in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are protesting wildlife tourism and tiger reserve expansion. They accuse authorities and conservation groups of commerci...

Exploring Sabah, Borneo's 'land below the wind'

Serian Bidayuh community keeps Gawai Dayak parade alive for 56 years as three generations take part in Kampung Taee cele...

 SERIAN, June 2 —  Beneath the vibrant costumes, thunder of gongs and pulse of ethnic music at toda...

Group of indigenous paddlers arrive in the Philippines

In India’s Nagaland, communities turn to Indigenous law to protect pangolins

To protect pangolins in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, conservationists are turning to community-driven customary laws, reports contributor Kasturi Das for Mongabay Ind...

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and ho...

Philippine fishing and Indigenous communities wary of clean energy boom in Marcos stronghold

PASUQUIN, Philippines — Crouched on the beach under the hot noon sun, a fisherman flattens a black sheet of seaweed on a bamboo mat rolled out on the sand. Wearing a straw hat wide...

Invisible forests: Why scale matters for Borneo’s last lowland trees

The lowland rainforests of Borneo are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Surveys have found over 700 tree species in a single ten-hectare plot — a figure comparable...

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Descendants of families forcibly displaced during the creation of Maiko National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo back in the 1970s are now leading a ne...

Roads, loggers close in on an unprotected refuge for isolated Kakataibo

An unprotected area in Peru’s Amazon, where Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation, sits in a growing sea of forestry concessions, illegal roads, illegal loggers and drug tr...

Fire surge threatens Indigenous livelihoods and isolated peoples in Brazil

In 2025, fires were responsible for a significant spike in forest loss in three territories in Brazil that are home to Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation, according t...