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8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

‘Guardians of the forest:’ Indigenous peoples come together to assert role in climate stability

Justin Catanoso 2 Oct 2018

Kenya’s Mijikenda people revive sacred homesteads to protect the forest

Sophie Mbugua 1 Oct 2018

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 28 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Shark ceviche, bat-friendly tequila, and protein-rich worms

Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2018

Traditional groups sowing sustainable crops could save Venezuelan park

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 24 Sep 2018

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Anthony Langat 24 Sep 2018

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018

How the social sciences can help conservationists save species

Mike Gaworecki 18 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018
Dinamam tuxá from APIB (Articulation of the Indigenous People of Brazil) at a press conference announcing the funders' commitment. Photo by Reny Preussker.

Forests and indigenous rights land $459M commitment

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2018

Criminalization and violence increasingly used to silence indigenous protest, according to UN report

Mike Gaworecki 11 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Climate mitigation has an ally in need of recognition and land rights: indigenous peoples in tropical countries

Justin Catanoso 10 Sep 2018
A secret oil access road built within Block 31 of Yasuni National Park, one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Photo © Ivan Kashinsky.

Climate leadership means keeping fossil fuels in the ground in tropical forests and beyond (commentary)

Leila Salazar-López 7 Sep 2018

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018

Latam Eco Review: Industrial fishing in the Galapagos, fracking Colombian cloud forests, whale sharks in Peru

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2018

Deal in sight for PNG landowners protesting Exxon-led gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 31 Aug 2018

Fires and haze return to Indonesia as peat protection bid falls short

Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Zamzami 29 Aug 2018

Indigenous architecture saves lives in Lombok quakes

Fathul Rakhman 28 Aug 2018

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Aug 2018

Drone used to confirm existence of uncontacted Amazon tribe (video)

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Aug 2018

‘Empty pocket season’: Dayak women farmers grapple with the impacts of oil palm plantations

Tessa Toumbourou 20 Aug 2018

South American soy fed to EU livestock drives Gran Chaco deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 15 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018

Bornean villagers who fought off a mine prepare to do battle again

Yovanda 14 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2018

Latam Eco Review: Turtles at risk, jungle fracking, and a mafia land grab

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2018

In Ecuador, a pipeline cuts a trail of misery through indigenous land

José María León Cabrera 9 Aug 2018

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