A boom in mining for nickel, lithium, cobalt, copper and other so-called “critical minerals” is driving deforestation and threatening the rights of the world’s Indigenous Peoples, experts and ...

Finland doesn’t do happiness the way most places do. You won’t find endless self-help books or people chasing shiny dreams. Instead, happiness here is stitched into everyday life with little habits.

The Sámi, Sweden’s Indigenous people ... from traditional reindeer herding practices to Márkanbáiki Sámi open-air museums to their leadership in ethical and sustainable tourism initiatives.

The far north of Scandinavia is synonymous with Christmas – and minus 30 degree temperatures. Which makes visiting at a different time more alluring.

Like many indigenous groups, they survived in the extreme conditions by utilising the natural resources around them. The following day I meet Lars Eriksson, an 80-year-old Sami reindeer herder ...

One such community is Widnaba in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region, where herders, mostly from the Fulbe community, have settled among the predominantly farming indigenous Kusaasi ...

They are best known for their reindeer, calm creatures which travel hundreds of kilometres each year between their summer and winter grazing grounds. Herding them is the key to Sami culture ...

This was not the Galapagos wildlife encounter I expected, but considering I’d already spotted five of the iconic “Big 15” animals between the airport and the seaport, run-ins with the 9,000 ...

At the other end of Alaska, around the same time Murphy was fighting in court, Indigenous reindeer herders near Nome were overrun first by gold rush stampeders, and then by the city’s ...

our next trip is a more sedate affair as we visit a family of Norway’s indigenous Sami people. A sleigh ride with the Sami people was a highlight We are treated to a relaxing reindeer sleigh ...