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Lack of land rights for local communities could scare away investment

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Feb 2016

Bolivian indigenous group wins big prize for reducing deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Dec 2015

Villagers thwart an eagle trafficker on a volcano in Java

Hariyawan A. Wahyudi 24 Nov 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015

Land rights and access to credit in Sulawesi community brings prosperity to land

Wahyu Chandra 9 Nov 2015

A Borneo village maps its land to protect against encroachers

Christopel Paino 3 Nov 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

Advances from oil palm interests leave Sulawesi village unmoved

Christopel Paino 20 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

Study finds local people do forest monitoring as well as scientists

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Oct 2015

In the shadow of a metropolis, a community revives Java’s lost forests

Petrus Riski 16 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

A village in Borneo turns away from palm oil

Andi Fachrizal 14 Oct 2015

After the tsunami, a forest restored along a river in Aceh

Chik Rini 13 Oct 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015

A Dayak village campaigns for rights to its forests

Aseanty Pahlevi 8 Oct 2015

Lombok’s blooming community forest bears fruit and raises livelihoods – and haj trips

Jay Fajar 7 Oct 2015

‘Catastrophic failure’: World’s indigenous communities lack rights to 75% of their land

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Oct 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015

Using art and technology to save the Amazon

Nika Levikov 21 Sep 2015

Local stewardship: conservation’s ‘vast blind spot’

Mike Gaworecki 17 Sep 2015

Will community management help save the black rhino from extinction? (Photos)

Nika Levikov 17 Sep 2015

From conflict to partnership, a Kalimantan community and logging company manage the forest together

Indra Nugraha 15 Sep 2015

Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2015

Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve

Michael Schwartz 21 Aug 2015

Colombian reserve gets big expansion

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jul 2015

Zimbabweans near protected areas feel good about wildlife. Tourists? Not so much.

Kolawole Talabi 10 Jul 2015

New reserve in Peru will protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Jun 2015

Community conservation increases endangered monkey population in Peru

Joanna Parkman 29 May 2015

To improve food security, look to the forests, new report says

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2015

Facing Future Storms: Poor Honduran Communities Unite to Protect Watersheds and Nature

David Barton Bray 5 May 2015

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