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CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

Sandra Cuffe 18 Mar 2016

‘Exploitation crisis’: Civil war fueling ‘sharp rise’ in poaching and trafficking of South Sudan’s wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous forest activist released from prison amid Cambodian crackdown

Rod Harbinson 17 Mar 2016

Released: 1,000-page encyclopedia on land conflicts affecting indigenous tribes

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2016

Toddler’s murder in Brazil unveils widespread violence against country’s indigenous

Carolina Torres 16 Mar 2016
High security fence at the Marange diamond fields. Security is tight but poverty in nearby communities drives many to attempt to break in and pan for diamonds illegally. Those caught risk beatings and torture by government and mine security forces. Photo by Andrew Mambondiyani.

Abuse, displacement, pollution: the legacy of Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds

Andrew Mambondiyani 15 Mar 2016

Demands grow for a thorough investigation of Berta Cáceres’ assassination in Honduras

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Mar 2016

Bringing field surveys into the modern, mobile world

Katie Taylor 4 Mar 2016

The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Barbara Fraser 1 Mar 2016

Peace agreements often ignore natural resources, report finds

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2016

Video series aims to help indigenous groups defend against land grabbing

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2016

Oil palm plantations need to protect orangutans (commentary)

Erik Meijaard 22 Feb 2016

Survival International files formal complaint against WWF for allegedly violating human rights of Baka ‘Pygmies’

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Feb 2016

Review finds EU plan to curb illegal logging has had little success

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016
Javari Valley Indigenous reserve

Endangered Environmentalists

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2016

India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016

A small team in Tanzania is using nothing but lights to save lions and leopards

Mike Gaworecki 1 Feb 2016

Jokowi asked to push indigenous rights through reluctant parliament

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 29 Jan 2016

Controversial culling of bison herd in Yellowstone National Park now the subject of First Amendment battle

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jan 2016

Colombia’s palm oil boom marred by bloody past and violent present

Greg Norman 5 Jan 2016

‘Bear-moving’ revamped: a better way to reduce conflict in the Himalayas?

Esther Wullschleger Schättin 31 Dec 2015

Another environmental activist is killed in Peru over his opposition to a major dam project

Ruxandra Guidi 30 Dec 2015

Big increase in little farms is whittling away Angola’s woodlands

Apoorva Joshi 17 Dec 2015

Hong Kong’s pink dolphins could disappear due to airport expansion and bridge construction

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2015

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

RSPO pledges reform after NGO exposes shoddy palm oil audits

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

Technology for Restoring Wildlife to the Wild, Wild West

Katie Taylor 20 Nov 2015

Could these technologies reduce shark attacks and culls?

Roz Evans 19 Nov 2015
Young orangutan orphaned by the palm oil industry when its mother was killed in a plantation in Central Kalimantan. This orangutan was one of the lucky ones -- it ended up in a rehabilitation center rather than dying of starvation or being sold into the pet trade.

Greenwashing? RSPO audits rife with ‘mistakes and fraud,’ report finds

Jonathan Vit 16 Nov 2015

Concern grows for jailed Cambodian activists amid civil rights crackdown

Rod Harbinson 10 Nov 2015

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