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Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2010

Real-life Avatar: court blocks destruction of indigenous community in Borneo

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jan 2010

Indigenous in Borneo win “landmark” court ruling over land rights

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2010

Forest-bulldozing ranchers win ‘Greenwashing Award’ for claiming they are creating a ‘nature reserve’

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2010

Malaysian police destroy homes in Borneo indigenous community

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2010

Dams a ‘monument of corruption’: Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2010

Uncontacted natives confirmed in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2010

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2009

Pope Benedict: environmental crisis requires review of world’s economic model

Jeremy Hance 15 Dec 2009

Rainforest tribe sues the Malaysian government for enabling deforestation

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

US think-tank: islands affected by global warming should wait for trickle-down money

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2009

Cattle company bulldozing UNESCO site, threatening uncontacted natives

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Malaysian land minister attacks credibility of young indigenous rape victims

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2009

Has Canada become the new climate villain (yes, that’s right, Canada)?

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2009

World requires radical new economic models to fight poverty and mitigate global warming

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

Julie Fischer Of Fauna 27 Nov 2009

Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2009

Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2009

Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Minister’s statements

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2009

Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2009

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2009

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Jeremy Hance 25 Oct 2009

Palm oil developers in Papua New Guinea accused of deception in dealing with communities

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2009

Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Sep 2009

Carbon Financing and Community Forestry

The Center For People 20 Sep 2009

Dangers for journalists who expose environmental issues

Reporters Without Borders 19 Sep 2009

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2009

Fifteen indigenous leaders arrested in Borneo for protesting dams that would flood their lands

Jeremy Hance 16 Sep 2009

Independent review finds logging company has abused rights of indigenous Penan in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 15 Sep 2009

World Bank’s IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2009

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