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Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Kara Moses 3 Sep 2009

Penan tribe to continue blockade against loggers with blowpipes and spears

Jeremy Hance 1 Sep 2009

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2009

Photos reveal illegal logging near uncontacted natives in Peru

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2009

Police face murder charges in killing of indigenous protesters in Peru

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2009

Peru to proceed with oil and gas auctions in the Amazon despite indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2009

Peru to raise payment to indigenous communities for Amazon forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2009

Weeks after bloodshed, American oil moves into Peruvian Amazon, putting rainforest, possible archeological site at risk

A Perspectivehambone Littletail (contact) 3 Aug 2009

Forest people set up logging blockades in Borneo

Mongabay.com 31 Jul 2009

Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2009

Companies benefit from reducing conflict with local people

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2009

Peru revokes decrees that sparked Amazon Indian uprising

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2009

Peru suspends decree that triggered bloody conflict between Indians and police

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2009

Marine scientist calls for abstaining from seafood to save oceans

Jeremy Hance 8 Jun 2009

Oil or Death in the Amazon

Jennifer Jacobs 6 Jun 2009

Peruvian police kill 10 Indians in battle over Amazon oil drilling

Mongabay.com 6 Jun 2009

Tribes in Peru to get $0.68/acre for protecting Amazon forest

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2009

Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land

Mongabay.com 28 May 2009

Peru may take military action against Indians protesting Amazon energy development

Mongabay.com 19 May 2009

Indigenous forest management offers lessons in fighting global warming

Mongabay.com 22 Apr 2009

REDD in Indonesia could evict forest people from their lands, warns U.N. committee

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2009

FARC killing Rainforest Indians in Colombia

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2009

Indigenous rights’ groups to oppose effort to certify ‘sustainable’ aquaculture

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

Photo: Indigenous leaders form giant human banner to protest Amazon destruction

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2009

New standards ensure forest carbon projects protect indigenous people, biodiversity

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2008

REDD may harm forest people, alleges report

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2008

Malaysia’s indigenous people to get land rights for first time

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2008

Brazil to use body-heat sensing technology to find uncontacted Amazon tribes

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2008

Last uncontacted tribe in Paraguay rapidly losing homeland

Mongabay.com 19 Nov 2008

IP laws not helping indigenous people protect traditional knowledge (repost)

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2008

Peru’s uncontacted Amazon tribes under attack

Mongabay.com 22 Oct 2008

Carbon conservation schemes will fail without forest people

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2008

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