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Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Only 6.5% of global forests are adequately protected, study finds

Palm oil firm Digoel Agri said to clear Papuan forest without Indigenous consent

Myanmar’s troubled forestry sector seeks global endorsement after coup

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

A good year for the Philippine eagle in 2020, but not for its supporters

‘We are part of the solution and the problem’: Q&A with author Torkjell Leira

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sri Lanka activists decry downgrade of non-protected ‘other’ forests by government

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Paper giant APRIL linked to Borneo forest clearing despite zero-deforestation vow

On a Philippine mountain, researchers describe a ‘fire flower’ orchid species

Alcoa vs. the Amazon: How the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

In bid to protect a Philippine pangolin stronghold, little talk of enforcement

Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation

Friday night follies: Brazil cuts deforestation funding, then restores it

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study

Favoring ayahuasca over hospitals, Indigenous Kokama see COVID-19 deaths drop in the Amazon

Cameroon halts logging plans in Ebo Forest, home to tool-using chimps

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

Brazil dismantles environmental laws via huge surge in executive acts: Study

Amazon gold mining wipes out rainforest regeneration for years: Study

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Goldminers overrun Amazon indigenous lands as COVID-19 surges

Scientists launch ambitious conservation project to save the Amazon

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