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Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation

Oil or rainforest: new website highlights the plight of Yasuni National Park

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Canada’s biggest logger loses eco-certification

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Samburu’s lions: how the big cats could make a comeback in Kenya

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Protecting predators in the wildest landscape you’ve never heard of

Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectares of customary forest in 7 years

Isolated Amazonian tribe makes another appearance in Peru (video)

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Forgotten species: the arapaima or ‘dinosaur fish’

Featured video: Indonesian community uses mapping to fight palm oil takeover

Activists, indigenous people plan healing walk in ‘sick’ tar sands landscape

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

Saving the Tenkile: an expedition to protect one of the most endangered animals you’ve never heard of

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

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