10 Years of Community-Based Forest Monitoring
Since 2015, Rainforest Alert has trained 400+ community members to monitor millions of acres of Peruvian Amazon.
The Living Infrastructure We Can No Longer Afford to Underfund
Indigenous-led forest protection is ready to scale. Are we ready to invest?
Meet the All-Women Indigenous Firefighting Team Charting a Path for Climate Resiliency in the Brazilian Amazon
In Roraima, Brazil, an all-women Indigenous firefighting brigade is carrying forward generations of ecological knowledge to protect their land — and rewriting who gets to lead the fight.
18 Must-Read Books by Indigenous Authors to Read on International Day of Indigenous Peoples and Beyond (2026 Update)
Every year on August 9 we celebrate International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. On this day in 1982, the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations held its first meeting in Geneva where they drafted the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, asserting their rights to self determination. Over six decades later, many […]
In 2025, Brazilian Amazon Fires Fell to Their Lowest Level in Four Decades. A “Super” El Niño Could Unravel the Progress.
After the worst fire season on record in 2024, the Brazilian Amazon caught a break in 2025 — but the reprieve may be short lived as scientists predict an approaching El Niño estimated to last through 2027.
Learning to Live with Fire: Indigenous Organizations Gather in Brazil to Strengthen Climate Resilience Across the Amazon
When record-breaking fires tore through the Peruvian Amazon in 2024, affecting 22 of the country’s 24 regions, it was a wake-up call for the Ticuna community of Buen Jardín de Callaru. For generations, Peru’s Ticuna people have lived in the region’s humid lowland forests, where small, controlled fires have long been part of preparing family […]
After Years of Caring for Their Forests, Recognition Arrives for the Communities of Petén, Guatemala
The experience of Guatecarbon shows how organized communities can defend their rights, influence national policy, and ensure that payments for protecting forests reach those doing the work.
How Indigenous Women in Guyana’s North Pakaraimas Are Organizing for Change
Indigenous women are charting a path toward stronger leadership and gender representation in their communities—an approach reflected in Rainforest Foundation US’s new Gender and Social Inclusion Strategy.
Yanomami Territory Three Years After the Crisis: What Has Changed and What Leaders Still Demand
In early 2023, shortly after taking office, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared a public health emergency in Yanomami territory, the largest Indigenous territory in the country. Years of illegal mining, environmental destruction, and institutional neglect under the previous administration of Jair Bolsonaro had culminated in a devastating humanitarian crisis. Images of malnourished […]
Why Stingless Bees Matter—and How Indigenous Communities in the Amazon Are Protecting Them
Along the Napo River in Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous Kichwa communities are reviving traditional knowledge to care for Amazonian stingless native bees as part of a project focused on sustainable livelihoods and forest stewardship. Using hollowed logs and wooden boxes, families manage bee nests that support food security, provide medicinal honey, and contribute to the health […]
