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Survey finds traditional occupations in decline in half of indigenous communities

Mike Gaworecki 17 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Claire Salisbury 4 May 2016

Conventional survey techniques underestimate Amazon biodiversity: report

Mike Gaworecki 25 Apr 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Toxic beetles and poisonous plants: Study reveals how southern Africa’s ‘bushmen’ make deadly poison arrows

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Trouble in paradise: Wakatobi’s ‘sea gypsies’ adjust to life in a marine park

Melati Kaye 20 Nov 2015

Bali’s mountain dwellers govern with ancient palm leaf treatises

Luh De Suriyani 29 Oct 2015
Sungai Utik elder Bandi in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The indigenous community whose forest is their supermarket

Andi Fachrizal 28 Oct 2015

An indigenous declaration in Kalimantan looks to make history

Sapariah Saturi 22 Oct 2015

Punk rocker likes what he sees in Sumatra’s resin forest

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

The village where a curse protects the forest

Indra Nugraha 15 Oct 2015

Cambodian communities follow different routes to justice over Socfin rubber project

Greg Norman 13 Oct 2015

Powered by the land: The Sumatran village that conserves forest for electricity

Ayat S. Karokaro 10 Sep 2015

Peru’s ronderos: Persecution of the Marañón patrolmen

Veronica Goyzueta 20 Jul 2015

Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law

Sapariah Saturi 26 Jun 2015

Locals lead scientists to new population of near-extinct reptile

Jeremy Hance 24 Feb 2015

Indigenous uprising earned tribe territories, but greatest challenges lie ahead

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 6 Nov 2014

Between the Forest and the Sea: The Yarsuisuit Collective – Part II

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 31 Oct 2014

Between the forest and the sea: life and climate change in Guna Yala – Part I

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 27 Oct 2014

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