How to cover Indigenous Land Rights and Extractive Industry Impacts

    As part of Mongabay’s free webinar series for journalists, this webinar explores how reporters can improve how they cover Indigenous Peoples’ efforts around conservation, land rights, the impact of extractive industries on traditional territories. You’ll gain broad insight, resources, story ideas and tips on how to cover them all from a panel of three experts.

    Event details

    When: Oct. 6, 2022 

    Recording: YouTube

    Registration: Closed

    Pitch Mongabay a story

    If you have a story idea, please submit your pitch via Mongabay’s Opportunities page. There, you’ll find a variety of paid reporting opportunities, including ‘Indigenous Peoples/Local Communities and Conservation,’ and also ‘Land Rights and Extractive Industries.’ 

    The experts

    Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is the Executive Director of the Tebtebba Foundation and is an Indigenous leader from the Kankana-ey Igorot people of the Cordillera Region in the Philippines. She formerly served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples by the Human Rights Council from 2014 until April 2020. She has worked as an Indigenous activist and advocate for women’s rights for over three decades.

    Tristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is Editor at Large at Grist. He previously served as Editor in Chief at the Texas Observer and Indigenous Affairs editor at High Country News. He has reported for Al Jazeera America, PBS NewsHour, National Native News, NPR and National Geographic. Ahtone’s stories have won multiple honors, including investigative awards from the Gannett Foundation and Public Radio News Directors Incorporated. A former president of the Native American Journalists Association, Ahtone is a 2017 Nieman Fellow and director of the Muckrock Foundation.

    Maurício Angelo is an award-winning international freelance investigative journalist and founder of The Mining Observatory, a Brazil-based investigative journalism Center established in 2015. He publishes in many media outlets in Brazil and worldwide, and was the winner of the Excellence in Journalism Award (2019) by the Inter American Press Association. He was also considered one of Brazil’s top three journalist experts in the Extractive Sector in 2021.

    About Mongabay

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