Baka Indigenous News Today

“This is what brings fear” to their communities and thwarts “their right to self-determination.”

When around 70,000 Indigenous Maasai were expelled from their lands in northern Tanzania in 2022, it didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, the Tanzanian government has systematically attacked Maasai communities, imprisoning Maasai leaders and land defenders on trumped-up charges, confiscating livestock, using lethal violence, and claiming that the Maasai’s pastoralist lifestyle is causing environmental […]

Indigenous peoples around the world are harassed and killed at alarming rates. Will the world act?

Prince Harry was warned of rapes by rangers, months before his promotion to the board of charity African Parks was publicized.

Between May 2021 and November 2022, more than 200,000 deforestation alerts covering a total of 2,700 hectares (6,670 acres) were recorded around Ouesso, the administrative seat of Sangha province, in the northwestern Republic of Congo, according to data from the online surveillance platform Global Forest Watch. Several observers say the tree cover loss is the […]

Too often, the people who live closest to nature suffer the most when natural systems are undermined. Pressures from unsustainable approaches to mining, oil exploration, agriculture, fishing, and forestry are eating away at wild landscapes including Indigenous peoples’ ancestral and sacred lands. Overfishing leaves coastal communities struggling to support their families. Climate change, water shortages and soil erosion mean smallholders’ crops fail. Even—or especially—in the face of s...