Reweaver’s stories explore the living connections between biodiversity, culture, territory, finance, and regeneration — drawing on more than a decade of environmental journalism by founder Dimitri Selibas across Africa and Latin America, alongside emerging Reweaver thinking and field reflections.
Insights and Stories
Six pieces that anchor the Reweaver worldview, from Buen Vivir to nature finance, Indigenous governance to regenerative tourism.
Featured Stories
BBC | Buen Vivir: Colombia's philosophy for good living (2021) — The philosophical thread that runs through Reweaver: living well as healthy relationships between people, place and the more-than-human world.
Mongabay | Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation (2022) — Indigenous governance and sub-national government building conservation partnerships together — the kind of architecture Reweaver helps design.
Mongabay | South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans (2023) — Contested custodianship on Reweaver’s home terrain — the governance, consent and benefit questions at the heart of any living landscape.
The Guardian | Pink dolphins and reformed Colombian rebels turn no-go zone into ecotourism hit (2023) — Regenerative tourism, biodiversity and community wealth on the same landscape
Science | Signs of Science: App developed with Indigenous trackers helps almost anyone monitor wildlife — Integration of digital technologies and Indigenous knowledge systems to generate new economies
The Daily Maverick | Marching in step: The shared challenges of Colombia and South Africa (2019) — The bridge between Reweaver's two formative geographies.
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Buen Vivir: Colombia’s philosophy for good living — BBC (2021)
Ancestral spirit: traditional moonshine and Colombia’s youth — The Guardian (2024)
App developed with Indigenous trackers helps almost anyone monitor wildlife — Science (2024)
Using candy and jam to protect Brazil’s Amazon rainforest — Deutsche Welle (2022)
Indigenous group and locals sign agreement to protect sustainable livelihoods and culture — Mongabay (2022)
Marching in step: The shared challenges of Colombia and South Africa — Daily Maverick (2019)
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Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Dario Mejía Montalvo — Mongabay (2024)
Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon — Mongabay (2023)
Little achieved for Indigenous groups at UN climate summit — Mongabay (2023)
Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped — Mongabay (2023)
Indigenous and local communities see big gains in land rights, study shows — Mongabay (2023)
Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction — Mongabay (2023)
COP15 deal needs a ‘holistic approach to conservation’: Joan Carling and Ramiro Batzin — Mongabay (2022)
Words that didn’t make the cut: What happened to Indigenous rights at COP27 — Mongabay (2022)
Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields — Mongabay (2022)
Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazon move closer to self-governance — Mongabay (2022)
Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands is ‘impossible’ — Mongabay (2022)
Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding — Mongabay (2021)
Empowering Indigenous peoples crucial to climate, biodiversity crises — Mongabay (2021)
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‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable — Mongabay (2021)
Questions over accounting and inclusion mar Guyana’s unprecedented carbon scheme — Mongabay (2023)
Resource-rich countries find it pays to pay landholders to protect their land — Ensia (2023)
For Central America, climate bill could top hundreds of billions annually — Mongabay (2023)
Funding for women-led conservation remains tiny, but that’s changing fast — Mongabay (2022)
Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists — Mongabay (2021)
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Pink dolphins and reformed Colombian rebels turn no-go zone into ecotourism hit — The Guardian (2023)
Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature — Mongabay (2022)
Mexican restoration dominated by non-environmental interests — Mongabay (2022)
Land restoration requires immediate action and Indigenous land rights — Mongabay (2022)
Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation — Mongabay (2022)
Young environmentalists ‘plant the future’ in Colombia’s Amazon — Mongabay (2022)
In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities — Mongabay (2021)
Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business — Mongabay (2020)
We’re flying less. And wild places that count on tourism dollars are starting to take notice — Ensia (2020)
A wheel education: the environmental diploma you earn by bike — The Guardian (2019)
The Guerrilla Gardeners — Cape Times (2014)
The case for saving Erf 81 — Cape Times (2014)
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Report links H&M and Zara to major environmental damage in biodiverse Cerrado — Mongabay (2024)
Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao — Mongabay (2024)
Mining industry touts green pledges to attract talent, but Gen Z isn’t buying it — Mongabay (2024)
Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon — The Guardian (2023)
French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation — Mongabay (2023)
South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans — Mongabay (2023)
Mechanized destruction of Brazil’s Amazon is rising, but not inevitable — Mongabay (2023)
Second chance for Lula as controversial Amazon dam goes up for renewal — Mongabay (2023)
With fracking promising a quick energy boost, can Colombia say no? — Mongabay (2022)
Battle over proposed Colombian port at Tribugá puts sustainable development in focus — Mongabay (2020)
Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19 — Mongabay (2020)
Colombian farmers, ranchers join businesses to turn the tide on Amazon deforestation — Mongabay (2020)
Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future — Mongabay (2020)
Across more than a decade of reporting for outlets including the BBC, The Guardian, Science, Mongabay, Ensia, Deutsche Welle and the Daily Maverick, this work examines the living relationships between communities, ecosystems, capital and culture
Selected Journalism
Emerging themes
As Reweaver grows, this space will share thinking on:
Why the next frontier of nature finance is cultural
Making biodiversity culturally visible — celebration as conservation infrastructure
Sacred Natural Sites as climate and water infrastructure
Regenerative tourism beyond extraction
Storytelling as landscape finance infrastructure
South Africa as a laboratory for global nature, culture, and capital partnerships

