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Land conflicts complicate effort to spare forests from palm oil in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2013

UN raps Malaysia on palm oil abuses, risks

Mongabay.com 19 Dec 2013

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Canada’s biggest logger loses eco-certification

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Indonesia urged to implement decision recognizing indigenous rights to land

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Gold mine near controversial Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2013

Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2013

Flawed from inception? Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT initiative threatened indigenous groups with simple mapping errors

Nsikan Akpan 13 Nov 2013

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Indigenous groups expel workers, blockade another dam in Sarawak

Jenny Denton 5 Nov 2013

New corruption allegations in Sarawak energy project

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2013

Rebranded as the Rainforest Trust, green group launches push to protect 6M acres of Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2013

40% of Brazil’s rural area owned by 1.4% of landholders

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 30 Sep 2013

Borneo tribesmen block road as controversial rainforest dam impoundment begins

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2013

Indigenous peoples resume occupation of Brazil’s Belo Monte dam site

Mongabay.com 19 Sep 2013

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2013

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

Diana Parker 10 Sep 2013

Amazon rainforest tribe sells REDD+ credits to Brazilian cosmetics giant

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 10 Sep 2013

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

Diana Parker 28 Aug 2013

Isolated Amazonian tribe makes another appearance in Peru (video)

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Overpopulation and grazing imperils nomadic lifestyle and wildlife in Ladakh

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Aug 2013

UN REDD program failing to build capacity for indigenous people in Panama

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2013

Colombia establishes giant rainforest park to protect ‘uncontacted’ tribes

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Aug 2013

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