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Featured video: How to save the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2012

Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented for first time in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Apr 2012

Indigenous groups oppose priest pushing for road through uncontacted tribes’ land

David Hill 19 Apr 2012

Pictures: Destruction of the Amazon’s Xingu River begins for Belo Monte Dam

Jeremy Hance 18 Apr 2012

Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

Judge suspends Brazilian dam that would flood sacred waterfalls

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2012

Brazil’s indigenous affairs ministry: $32B carbon deal not valid

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2012

Mining cancellation throws wrench into Sarawak dam-building spree

Jeremy Hance 27 Mar 2012

Featured video: indigenous community witnesses end of forest for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2012

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Patrick Le Flufy 26 Mar 2012

Featured Video: FEVER, the climate change challenge for indigenous people

Jeremy Hance 21 Mar 2012

Africa Wildlife Foundation faces lawsuit from indigenous community in Kenya

Christina Chauvenet 12 Mar 2012

International Labor Organization raps Brazil over monster dam

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2012

Tourism for biodiversity in Tambopata

Ryan King 27 Feb 2012

Activists form network to fight Sarawak dam-building spree

Jeremy Hance 15 Feb 2012

New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2012

Group releases photos of Borneo rainforest to be converted for palm plantations

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2012

Feared extinct, obscure monkey rediscovered in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2012

Brazil begins preliminary damming of Xingu River as protests continue

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2012

Obama rejects Keystone pipeline, but leaves door open for tar sands

Jeremy Hance 18 Jan 2012

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011

Jeremy Hance, Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2011

The other side of the Penan story: threatened tribe embraces tourism, reforestation

Jeremy Hance 19 Dec 2011

Yasuni ITT: the virtues and vices of environmental innovation

Romain Pirard 7 Dec 2011

Protections for indigenous rights, biodiversity weakened in latest REDD+ text

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2011

Community mapping of African rainforests could show way forward for preservation, REDD

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

Carbon piracy, lack of recognition of indigenous rights undermining REDD in Peru, alleges report

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2011

Indigenous religious leader murdered in front of his tribe in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2011

Concerns standoff between Borneo forest community and Malaysian palm oil developer may turn violent

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2011

Palm oil giant misled the public on violent conflict with local communities

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2011

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