DAVID HILL ( B.A., MPhil., GDipJ) is a journalist who has worked on human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights in particular, the environment and climate-related issues for almost 15 years. Before that, he studied Social Anthropology at Oxford University in the UK.

He currently writes on Substack. Over the years, he has contributed regularly to The Guardian, where he wrote the Andes to the Amazon column, and has written for many other publications including The Observer, The Ecologist, The Huffington Post, Mongabay, ChinaDialogue and the New Internationalist.

His focuses include the oil and gas industries, land rights, indigenous peoples living in ‘isolation’, the Amazon, forests and conservation. He writes in English and Spanish and his articles have been translated into Bahasa Indonesia, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.

In addition to his journalism, he has worked in different capacities for the international non-governmental organisations Global Witness, Forest Peoples Programme, Survival International, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Rainforest Foundation Norway.

His work has meant travelling to some of the remotest parts of the world in Brazil, Peru and West Papua. Exposés include Ecuador promising Chinese firms they could explore the ‘ITT’ oil fields in the Yasuni National Park, and plans by an international gas consortium leader to operate in the 'most biodiverse place on earth'.

He has lived in and travelled widely across Peru in particular, visiting Amahuaca, Arabela, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Awajún, Cashinahua/Huni Kuin, 'Chitonahua'/'Murunahua', Kichwa, 'Mastanahua', Matsigenka, Matsés, Yaminahua and Yine territories.

He has appeared on and in a wide range of media, including CNN, Sky News, Al-Jazeera, ITV, Channel 5, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 2, and been quoted or cited in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Guardian and the Miami Herald, among many others.