Minga Indigenous News Today

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.

The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is an international coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations defending social justice and the rights of forest peoples in forest policies.

The town of San José del Fragua is just over an hour’s drive from Florencia, the capital of the department of Caquetá, in southern Colombia. On one side of the road are the majestic peaks of the eastern Andes and on the other side, the beginning of the immense Amazonian plains. The town of San […]

“I constantly receive information that Indigenous Peoples fear a new wave of green investments."

“I constantly receive information that Indigenous Peoples fear a new wave of green investments."

Avoiding a new wave of green colonialism is an urgent concern among attendees of the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples.

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, and Native News Online. NEW YORK — When Francisco Calí Tzay, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, spoke at the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples, he listed […]

Community leaders in the Putumayo province of Colombia hope to protect the region from the spread of coca crops and rising deforestation. The aim: Make a community-run fruit oil processing plant turn a profit.

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

Sebastián o Kansateura Por: Angela Cuevas de Dolmetsch Después de que la Minga Indígena y otros grupos inconformes, siguiendo los pasos de la reivindicación de los derechos en las protestas internacionales como ‘black lives matter’ y buscando volver a nuestras raíces sin rendirles pleitesía a los conquistadores blancos tumbaran la estatua de Sebastián de Belalcázar se ha generado un interesante debate. Los puristas blancos quieren restablecer esa mole de bronc...