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Brazil’s shame

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jun 2011

Photos: Cambodians rally as ‘Avatars’ to save one of the region’s last great rainforests

Jeremy Hance 31 May 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

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2011

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2011

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Apr 2011

Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe’s territory sparks legal action

Jeremy Hance 12 Apr 2011

Memberantas penebangan liar di Indonesia dengan memberikan kesempatan pada masyarakat lokal untuk mengelola hutan

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Apr 2011

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

Jeremy Hance 6 Apr 2011

Malaysian palm oil giant in fight with forest people gets rebuke from RSPO

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2011

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

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2011

Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

Goodbye national parks: when ‘eternal’ protected areas come under attack

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Coalition calls on Europe to label palm oil on food products

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2011

Fighting illegal logging in Indonesia by giving communities a stake in forest management

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2011

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

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2011

Foreign big agriculture threatens world’s second largest wildlife migration

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2011

World’s most controversial dam, Brazil’s Belo Monte, back on

Jeremy Hance 6 Mar 2011

Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2011

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2011

Judge suspends Brazil’s monster dam: contractor ‘imposing’ its interests

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 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

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

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