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Fiscal meltdown at Easter Island park drives rift among islanders

Michelle Carrere 6 Feb 2020

Galina Angarova on the indigenous relationship to land, conservation, and the sacred feminine

Mike Gaworecki 5 Feb 2020

Chief Raoni, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, presides over historic meeting with over 600 indigenous leaders in Brazil

Rafael Forsetto 5 Feb 2020

For Ecuador’s eco agenda, 2019 was a year of setbacks and pushbacks

Antonio José Paz Cardona 31 Jan 2020

Xavante tribe digs in as Brazil reneges on vow not to build a road in their reserve

Caio de Freitas Paes 30 Jan 2020

Borneo locals win a court battle to bar a coal miner from their land

Lusia Arumingtyas 30 Jan 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020
Waura man in Brazil. Photo by Sue Wren.

Indigenous, protected lands in Amazon emit far less carbon than areas outside

John Cannon 28 Jan 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020
Shaman Angohó Ha-ha-hãe, one of the leaders of Naô Xohã indigenous village, poses for a photo close to the Paraopeba River. The Naô Xohã community is requesting to be temporarily relocated by Vale due to the river pollution. Image by Luiz Guilherme Fernandes for Mongabay

After a mine killed their river, a Brazil tribe fights for a new home

Elisângela Mendonça 24 Jan 2020

Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation

James Dinneen 23 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

John Cannon 23 Jan 2020

Amazon’s Munduruku stage daring Christmas raid to recover sacred urns

Rosamaria Loures; and Sue Branford* 20 Jan 2020

Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes/Conexão Planeta 17 Jan 2020

Belo Monte boondoggle: Brazil’s biggest, costliest dam may be unviable

Tiffany Higgins 17 Jan 2020

India’s yak herders face the end of ancient tradition in warming Himalayas

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020

Indigenous lands hold 36% or more of remaining intact forest landscapes

John Cannon 16 Jan 2020

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Sam Cowie 14 Jan 2020

Indonesia’s push to become a tourism paradise sidelines land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2020

Ami Vitale on how meeting Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, changed her life

Mike Gaworecki 7 Jan 2020

Indigenous artists from the Amazon use art for environmental advocacy

Débora Menezes 7 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 30 Dec 2019

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2019 brings death by 1,000 cuts to Amazon — part one

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Dec 2019
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019

Amazon’s Mura indigenous group demands input over giant mining project

Thais Borges; Sue Branford; and Mauricio Torres 27 Dec 2019

Mega-mining project slated for Brazilian Amazon sparks controversy

Thais Borges; Sue Branford; and Mauricio Torres 26 Dec 2019
Camvert has moved to establish a nursery in anticipation of logging FMU 0925. Image courtesy John Takang.

NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon

Eugene N. Nforngwa 25 Dec 2019

Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”

Sibélia Zanon 23 Dec 2019

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