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Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

In landmark ruling, Indonesia’s indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2013

Indigenous association to sue to shut down Panama’s REDD+ program

Mongabay.com 17 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Up for grabs: how foreign investments are redistributing land and water across the globe

Erica Santana 18 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams

Jonathan Watts 8 Apr 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

NGO says Malaysian regulators should shut down two Sarawak companies after damning video

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Video uncovers top level corruption in Sarawak over indigenous forests

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2013

Panama’s indigenous people drop REDD+

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2013

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

The beginning of the end of deforestation in Indonesia?

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2013

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2013

Helping Borneo’s indigenous people fight for their forests

Allison Hanes 28 Jan 2013

Malaysian candidate pledges to drop controversial dam in Sarawak if elected

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2013

Mystery surrounds disappearance of prominent environmental activist in Laos

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2012

Tribes to sue Peru over planned oil expansion

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2012

Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction threat looms

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2012

Featured video: how locals depend on Kalimantan’s vanishing forests

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Legislation leaves future of world’s largest temperate rainforest up in the air

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 20 Nov 2012

Penan suspend dam blockade, give government one month to respond to demands

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

El Salvador mulls total ban on mining

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 22 Oct 2012

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

David Hill 15 Oct 2012

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