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Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

The reaches, limits and (alleged) biases of feasibility studies and environmental licenses

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

In a big win, Yurok Nation reclaims vital creek and watershed to restore major salmon run

Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

A fragile win as Indonesia cancels high-risk mine permit after court ruling

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Manage people more and bears less, say Indigenous elders in world’s ‘polar bear capital’

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

In Nepal, confrontation looms over controversial cable car project as court lifts stay order

Community conservancies in Kyrgyzstan see conservation success against illegal hunting

Meet Pedro Porras, the priest who first rediscovered Amazon ancient cities

Impacts of development come under higher scrutiny in the Pan Amazon

In Panama, an Indigenous-led project rewrites the rules of reforestation

Indigenous rights advocates petition to overturn Indonesian conservation law

West Sulawesi erupts in protest over sand mining for Indonesia’s new capital

An alternative approach to bridge Indigenous knowledge and Western science for conservation (commentary)

From chickens to cassava, Brazil’s Munduruku seek alternatives to mining

New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group

Indigenous conservationists lead the fight to save Mentawai’s endangered primates

At the U.N., mining groups tout protections for Indigenous peoples

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Viral standoff at Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo exposes decades of Indigenous exclusion

Report shows policy gaps in safeguarding the carbon rights of forest communities

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Cable car project in Nepal under fire for flawed environmental review

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

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