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An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Small chocolate company takes big steps toward conservation and human development

Andrew Mann 1 Oct 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

Legislation protecting Indonesia’s indigenous communities is not good enough, says advocacy group

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 18 Sep 2014

The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Ruxandra Guidi - Mongabay.org Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 4 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

Indonesia to hear indigenous peoples’ grievances on land disputes

Loren Bell 22 Aug 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

New report reveals human rights abuses by corporations, governments in the Amazon

Jordanna Dulaney 14 May 2014

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Small monkeys take over when big primates have been hunted out in the Amazon

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 21 Apr 2014

Ecuador will have referendum on fate of Yasuni after activists collect over 700,000 signatures

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2014

Featured video: celebrities speak out for Yasuni

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Study warns of possible REDD+ land grab

Diana Parker 30 Mar 2014

Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation

Diana Parker 25 Mar 2014

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

New web tool aims to help indigenous groups protect forests and navigate REDD+

Jeremy Hance 12 Mar 2014

The real cost of conservation: cheap protection rarely succeeds

Nika Levikov 3 Mar 2014

New forest map for Sarawak reveals large-scale deforestation, encroachment on indigenous territories

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Feb 2014

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

David Hill 4 Feb 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Canada’s biggest logger loses eco-certification

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2013

Indonesian palm oil company demolishes homes and evicts villagers in week-long raid

Diana Parker 14 Dec 2013

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