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Featured video: new documentary puts human face on logging in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Asia Pulp & Paper to undertake human rights audit

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2011

Indigenous people blockade river against ‘murderous’ oil company

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2011

Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film documents how industrial logging destroys lives

Jeremy Hance 29 Aug 2011

WWF partnering with companies that destroy rainforests, threaten endangered species

Jeremy Hance 25 Jul 2011

Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its Amazon spill with rags and buckets

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2011

Rainforest tribe forcibly removed from dam area to palm oil plantation

Jeremy Hance 23 Jun 2011

Shareholders to Chevron: company showing ‘poor judgment’ in Ecuador oil spill case

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2011

Nobel laureates: ‘we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years’

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2011

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

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2011

Palm oil lobby attacks World Bank’s new social and environmental safeguards

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2011

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

Jeremy Hance 6 Apr 2011

Indigenous community takes court ruling into own hands and seizes oil palm plantation

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2011

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

Mongabay.com 10 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

Chevron found guilty, ordered to pay $8.2 billion in epic oil contamination fight

Jeremy Hance 14 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

Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

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

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Greening the world with palm oil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2011

United States to back U.N. indigenous rights declaration

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2010

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Environmentalists must recognize ‘biases and delusions’ to succeed

Jeremy Hance 18 Oct 2010

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

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

Yasuni on film: could a documentary save the world’s most biodiverse ecosystem?

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2010

The true cost of the Commonwealth Games

Clare Raybould 30 Sep 2010

Rapid growth of palm oil industry tramples indigenous peoples’ rights, says report

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2010

India’s Avatar: decision coming on mine that threatens indigenous group

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2010

Colombian indigenous leader shot dead

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2010

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