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Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2017

Study looks at positive and negative impacts of biodiversity offsets on local communities

Mike Gaworecki 23 Dec 2016

Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 20 Dec 2016

Don’t feed the orangutans — a warning unheeded at popular ecotourism stop

Aria Danaparamita 21 Nov 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David Brown 13 Oct 2016
Residents of Kiad in Panama’s indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé semi-autonomous region retur home after shopping in the nearby town of Tolé. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

Program targets food security concerns among Panama’s indigenous women

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 3 Oct 2016
Goejet Miranda crosses the part of the Tabasará River still flowing near his community of Kiad. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama begins “test-flooding” dam over indigenous protests

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Sep 2016
Ricardo Miranda, one of the protest leaders and member of the M10 movement representing Ngäbe communities affected by the dam. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama revives stalled dam over strong indigenous opposition

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 25 Aug 2016
Tanzanian women carry new beehives into the forest. Photo by Felipe Rodriguez/APW

Can helping women achieve financial freedom help the environment, too?

Roz Evans 24 Aug 2016
Zou Huagang, head of Lianhe village, poses in front of a local kiwi farm. Zou's family owns about three acres of kiwi farmland. Photo by Wang Yan.

Making a living inside a reserve: an interview with village head Zou Huagang

Wang Yan 14 Jun 2016
A golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana), caught on camera trap inside the reserve. Photo courtesy of Laohegou Nature Reserve Center.

Can China’s first private nature reserve become truly sustainable?

Wang Yan 10 Jun 2016

Chinese villagers turn from logging to forest patrols, bees, and fish

Wang Yan 8 Jun 2016

China’s Wanglang panda reserve, once an ecotourism model, faces new threats

Wang Yan 6 Jun 2016

Community plants green shoots of hope in the land of the lost Javan tiger

Petrus Riski 11 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

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

Petrus Riski 16 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

Could canned fish soup stop government-community conflict in Sumatra?

Taufik Wijaya 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

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

Indra Nugraha 15 Sep 2015

Agrarian settlements causing massive deforestation in Brazil: ‘Much more damage may be done’

Mike Gaworecki 10 Sep 2015

Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

Kirk Talbott and Gabriel Thoumi 3 Apr 2015

$7 million could save lemurs from extinction

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2015

Next big idea in forest conservation? Rewards for reforestation

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jul 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? The ‘double-edged sword’ of democracy

Dr Liz Kimbrough 3 Jul 2014

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