Neighbours come together to defend urban trees in Caracas, Venezuela
The indiscriminate felling of three rubber trees in the capital of Venezuela reveals the challenges facing a city that must embrace its green areas...
Despite global repression, Indigenous-led environmental movements fight on
Under the guise of national security and economic growth, governments and corporations worldwide are escalating legal strategies to suppress Indigenous activists and organizers.
According...
The network protecting fishers and life in Guanabara Bay
Founded in response to a perilous oil spill in Rio's Guanabara Bay, Ahomar fishing network has gone on to win international awards for its...
Indigenous leader Marisol Garcia Apagueño on the hidden costs of carbon...
In this interview with LAB contributor Maozya Murray, Túpac Amaru activist Marisol discusses Kichwa resistance to the Cordillera Azul National Park and what it...
Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory
The Indigenous territory faced a severe humanitarian and environmental crisis with the invasion of around 20,000 illegal miners. Trained youths can now act as multipliers of drone monitoring and watch the land against new invasions.
Chile’s controversial Rucalhue dam
In Chile the Biobío Basin’s latest hydropower project is uprooting protected vegetation, amid allegations of insufficient prior consultation of local residents.
El Salvador: ‘No to Life, Yes to Mining’
President Nayib Bukele has overturned El Salvador's seven-year-old ban on metal mining (the first such ban in the world) and renewed the assault on communities which campaign against mining. The five water defenders from Santa Marta, Cabañas, now face a new trial because of their opposition to gold mining.
Women criminalized for resisting gas extraction in Bolivian nature reserve
Campesina women in the Tariquía National Reserve stand up against impending gas extraction which will have detrimental impacts on the environment and local communities’ ways of life.
Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...
COP16: is biodiversity offsetting a false solution?
Indigenous groups, ecologists, scholars, and NGOs have spoken out against the idea of biodiversity markets, emphasizing their lack of effectiveness and stressing that the protection of ecosystems should be rooted in local knowledge and community-led governance rather than top-down market solutions.
