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Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November 2019. Image reproduced from his Facebook profile. 

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

Sam Cowie 3 Apr 2020
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image by heath department of Santo Antônio do Içá.

First COVID-19 case among indigenous people confirmed in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 2 Apr 2020

Plantation director in dispute with indigenous community is charged with illegal logging

Nurdin Tubaka 1 Apr 2020

Anglo American seeking to mine on indigenous lands in Brazil’s Amazon

Maurício Angelo 31 Mar 2020

As COVID-19 rages, evangelical pastor may contact remote Amazon tribes

Sam Cowie 30 Mar 2020

Indigenous people are most vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus in Latin America

Yvette Sierra Praeli 30 Mar 2020
Guarani indigenous people protest against real estate speculation in a lot close to Jaraguá indigenous reserve in São Paulo. Image by Tommaso Protti for Mongabay

Housing project puts São Paulo’s remaining Atlantic Forest at risk

Tiffany Higgins, Tommaso Protti 27 Mar 2020

BR-319 illegal side road threatens Amazon protected area, indigenous land (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Maryane B. T. de Andrade 27 Mar 2020

Conservationists urge reforms in Bolivia after environmental, political crises

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Mar 2020

In Kenya, the indigenous music of Afro Simba promotes environmental stewardship and peace

David Njagi 25 Mar 2020

First possible COVID-19 indigenous cases detected near key Amazon reserve

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 25 Mar 2020

New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 24 Mar 2020

Amazon indigenous put at risk by Brazil’s feeble Covid-19 response: Critics

Sam Cowie 20 Mar 2020

Bringing Christ and coronavirus: Evangelicals to contact Amazon indigenous

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2020

Palm oil firm has farmers jailed for harvesting from land it stole from them

Indra Nugraha, Yusy Marie 17 Mar 2020

Turning the tide for an endangered crab species in the Philippines

Jen Chan 12 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Indonesian police charge indigenous men in dispute over nutmeg plantation

Nurdin Tubaka 12 Mar 2020

Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 9 Mar 2020

The fight goes on for opponents of a Philippine mine given a new lease on life

Leilani Chavez 9 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

Indonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant

Ayat S. Karokaro 9 Mar 2020

NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN

Sue Branford 5 Mar 2020
Forest in West Papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

South Korea’s POSCO vows zero deforestation in Papua palm oil operation

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020
The village of Ypoi by Mídia Ninja.

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

John Cannon 2 Mar 2020

Indonesia’s point man for palm oil says no more plantations in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2020

Companies leave communities to grapple with mining’s persistent legacy

John Cannon 28 Feb 2020

Activists skeptical of win as court orders Papua plantation maps published

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Feb 2020

Barrage of mining requests targets Brazil’s isolated indigenous peoples

Maurício Angelo 26 Feb 2020

Making a thriller out of Belo Monte hydro dam: Q&A with filmmaker Sabrina McCormick

Débora Pinto 18 Feb 2020

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