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Locals clash with ‘sustainable’ FSC logging company in the Congo

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2011

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe’s territory sparks legal action

Jeremy Hance 12 Apr 2011

Memberantas penebangan liar di Indonesia dengan memberikan kesempatan pada masyarakat lokal untuk mengelola hutan

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Apr 2011

Malaysian palm oil giant in fight with forest people gets rebuke from RSPO

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2011

Leaf harvesting impacts Amazon palm

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

Palm oil company gives up land contested by local communities as part of sustainability pledge

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2011

Goodbye national parks: when ‘eternal’ protected areas come under attack

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Fighting illegal logging in Indonesia by giving communities a stake in forest management

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2011

Report: corruption in Sarawak led to widespread deforestation, violations of indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2011

Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2011

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2011

Sarawak government mocks its indigenous people

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2011

Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2011

Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to stagnate

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2011

Sarawak’s last nomad: indigenous leader and activist, Along Sega, dies

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Prominent indigenous leader gets death threats in Guyana

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Lack of schools, trade drive exodus from remote parts of the Amazon

Soizic Le Courtois 17 Dec 2010

Sarawak to cut down 1 million ha of rainforest for palm oil

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2010

Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund

Steve Zwick Of Ecosystem Marketplace 4 Dec 2010

Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

Rainforests, wildlife preserved by indigenous spiritual beliefs

Keith Rozendal 15 Nov 2010

Undergrads in the Amazon: American students witness beauty and crisis in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2010

Amazon suffers worst drought in decades

Jeremy Hance 24 Oct 2010

NGO warns oil exploration in Peru may ‘decimate’ uncontacted tribes

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

The ultimate bike trip: the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

Can ’boutique capitalism’ help protect the Amazon?

Jeremy Hance 11 Oct 2010

The Nestlé example: how responsible companies could end deforestation

Jeremy Hance 6 Oct 2010

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