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Attorney keeps alive legacy of murdered Pará activists, despite death threats

How an Indigenous family under siege became a symbol of resistance in the Amazon

A 13-year fight against gold mining in Colombian community marches on

Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

‘We have advanced, but with much pain’: Q&A with Indigenous leader José Gregorio Díaz Mirabal

Disappointment and a few wins, Indigenous leaders react to Nairobi biodiversity talks

Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence

Protect Persian leopards, and their defenders, for World Environment Day (commentary)

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Indigenous community mounts legal challenge to Thai coal mine development

Citizen participation: a key achievement at the first COP to the Escazú Agreement

“We are on the front line”: Q&A with Indigenous land defender Adiela Jineth Mera Paz

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Conservation deaths in 2021

In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Newly released Cambodian activists honored among Front Line Defenders awardees

Peruvian court dismisses defamation case against Mongabay journalist

Following coup, Myanmar’s Indigenous vow to protect forests ‘until the end of the world’ (commentary)

With Myanmar’s press muzzled, experts warn of surge in environmental crimes

The Kichwa woman fighting drug traffickers and loggers in the Peruvian Amazon

On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

USAID redirects funding in Cambodia as future of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary hangs in the balance

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Rights groups demand end to Cambodia’s persecution of green activists

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

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Intimidation of Brazil’s enviro scientists, academics, officials on upswing

Cambodians fight the ‘cancer’ eating away at Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

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