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After 150 years of damage to people and planet, Rio Tinto ‘must be held to account’ (commentary)

Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

As hydropower dams quell the Mekong’s life force, what are the costs?

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Sámi rights must not be sacrificed for green energy goals of Europe (commentary)

Bearded pigs a ‘cultural keystone species’ for Borneo’s Indigenous groups: Study

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Cultural heritage is an essential resource for climate change science too, reports say

‘Impact assessments need a shake-up’: Q&A with Georgine Kengne & Morgan Hauptfleisch

Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups

Element Africa: Claims of mining encroachment in DRC and broken promises in SA

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

Fishing industry transparency is key for a thriving ocean (commentary)

Conservationists should all be feminists (commentary)

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

U.S. grocery chains flunk sustainability, human rights tests for tuna sourcing

‘Development’ projects in Ethiopia leave starvation, disease in wake: Report

Lula’s government must go far beyond undoing Bolsonaro policies on Amazon forest & Indigenous rights (commentary)

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics

Australian niobium mining project instills 16 years of anxiety for Malawi communities

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

COP15 deal needs a ‘holistic approach to conservation’: Q&A with Joan Carling and Ramiro Batzin

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Work on cable car line to Indonesian volcano to begin despite concerns

In first for Indonesia, government recognizes Indigenous Papuans’ ancestral forests

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