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Conscious Travel

Why is community immersion the future of responsible tourism?

Jenny Southan argues how community-based travel will be a cornerstone of tourism in 2021.

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Community immersion tourism: Staying with a Bedouin family in Oman

As part of our Conscious Travel series, we look at influencer Eva Zu Beck’s recent experience in Wahiba Sands.

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Arctic Refuge oil drilling: delayed or halted?

One of the last untouched ecosystems in the world has just narrowly escaped oil drilling for the time being.

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How can we travel to remote communities while still being ethical?

Jenny Southan talks with three industry experts about how to take part in community immersion trips responsibly.

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Conscious Travel

What’s it like to spend time with remote communities?

Jenny Southan travels to Lapland to stay with the only Indigenous community in the EU.

Earth News

Why Trump’s final attempt to drill Arctic oil was an ‘epic failure’

Parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have just been auctioned off for oil drilling.

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How is climate change hurting reindeer populations in the Arctic?

The livelihoods of Indigenous communities are also under threat in Sweden and Finland.

USA

Biden picks Native American Deb Haaland for interior secretary

"A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior," Haaland said, vowing to be "fierce".

Earth News

Indigenous photographer captures tribe fighting for the rainforest

A set of photos show the Guajajara people working hard to protect the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

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Why Nemonte Nenquimo has become the voice of the Indigenous population

Nenquimo has been named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People of 2020.

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Guatemalans make offerings to folk hero San Simon for COVID protection

San Simon is a venerated folk saint in the indigenous village of San Andres Itzapa, western Guatemala.

Earth News

Meet Indigenous activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

“The most important part of my indigeneity that informs my climate work is that this is not an isolated issue."

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Cameroon halts plans for logging in biodiversity hotspot

Local communities are still concerned that the fate of the forest remains unclear.

Earth News

What can an Aboriginal health centre teach us about eco-architecture?

Rammed earth construction techniques date back to the Neolithic era, but the method is growing in popularity again.

World News

Record number of land and environmental activists killed in 2019

On the frontlines of the climate crisis: environmental activists across the world are literally risking their lives to save the planet

Earth News

The dark side of forest conservation: Who are the Sengwer tribe?

Eileen Gbagbo on Kenya's Sengwer tribe and why conservation efforts forced them out of their ancestral home.

Brazil

СOVID-19: how Brazil is failing its indigenous people

The deadly coronavirus is spreading across the protected lands of indigenous people, who blame illegal miners, other intruders and the Brazilian state.

Earth News

Standing Rock: Controversial Dakota oil pipeline forced to empty

A victory for both the Native American Tribe in North Dakota, US, and environmental activists far and wide.

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Watch: Indigenous Australians hold 'Invasion Day' rally in Melbourne

This year, non-indigenous Australians were asked to give reparations in the form of a donation to the #PayTheRent campaign.

Canada

Amazon 'Forest Guardian' shot in the head by illegal loggers

In an ambush on the Arariboia reservation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Paulino Guajajara was shot dead while one other was injured, according to a statement from Guajajara tribe leaders.