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Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

El Salvador women’s group takes a stand for river system targeted by development

In Indonesia, a coastal town rejects ‘metropolitan’ model for mangroves

In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Fate of Malaysian forests stripped of protection points to conservation stakes

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Shea trees are falling fast across Africa, victims of new pressures (commentary)

When a tree falls in the forest, you can still hear the birdsong

Win for Malaysian forest after government backs down on development plan

Borneo’s bearded pigs and traditional hunters adapted to oil palms. Then came swine fever

Industrial fishing harbor plan raises a stink in Sierra Leone

Farmers regreen Kenya’s drylands with agroforestry and an app

Kenya port and ship-breaking projects threaten livelihoods and environment

Keeling Curve Prize awarded to solar cooking and other climate change-reducing projects

Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’

They safeguarded nature, but now Malaysia’s Mah Meri face eviction for an eco-resort

Road construction imperils tree kangaroo recovery in PNG

Wildfires turn up the heat on farmers growing Indonesia’s ‘hottest’ pepper

Myanmar junta’s growing reliance on extractives for cash raises concerns

Environmental benefits or social — but rarely both — under RSPO, study finds

Outrage as Cambodian court convicts activists for inciting ‘social chaos’

Popular opposition halts a bridge project in a Philippine coral haven

Relocating mangroves for Indonesian highway ‘not that easy,’ expert warns

Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands

‘A disgrace’: Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

First the savior, now the villain: Fire suppression is often overhyped in the American west (commentary)

Analysis: Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

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