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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

Protests continue amid signs that controversial Borneo dam cancelled

Rod Harbinson 29 Mar 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

UNESCO declares largest biosphere reserve in North America

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Mar 2016
Not for republication. Image by Rod Harbinson/Rodharbinson.com

Indigenous forest activist released from prison amid Cambodian crackdown

Rod Harbinson 17 Mar 2016

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

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Released: 1,000-page encyclopedia on land conflicts affecting indigenous tribes

Mongabay.com 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

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

Video series aims to help indigenous groups defend against land grabbing

Sean Mowbray 23 Feb 2016

The inside story of how Great Bear Rainforest went from a ‘War In The Woods’ to an unprecedented environmental and human rights agreement

Mike Gaworecki 22 Feb 2016

Survival International files formal complaint against WWF for allegedly violating human rights of Baka ‘Pygmies’

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Lack of land rights for local communities could scare away investment

Morgan Erickson-Davis 3 Feb 2016

Oil extraction threatens to expand further into Ecuadorean rainforest under new 20-year contract

Isabel Riofrio 3 Feb 2016

Bolivian indigenous group wins big prize for reducing deforestation

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Dec 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

Eaten to extinction? India’s purple frog faces another threat

Apoorva Joshi 26 Oct 2015

An indigenous declaration in Kalimantan looks to make history

Sapariah Saturi 22 Oct 2015

Indigenous anti-dam activists converge in Sarawak from around the globe

Rod Harbinson 20 Oct 2015

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

Taufik Wijaya 19 Oct 2015

Cambodian communities follow different routes to justice over Socfin rubber project

Greg Norman 13 Oct 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015

After crackdown, protesters to march again against Ecuador’s ‘extractivism’

Sandra Cuffe 14 Sep 2015

Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve

Michael Schwartz 21 Aug 2015

Promised task force on indigenous rights in Indonesia hits snag

Cory Rogers 15 Aug 2015

Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law

Sapariah Saturi 26 Jun 2015

Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2015

Indigenous Indonesians file land claim against IndoMet coal project

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2015

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