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Bid to protect indigenous Indonesians hit by ministry’s doubts over rights bill

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Apr 2018

Latam Eco review: Colombian reserves fail large vertebrates

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018
Indonesian rainforest. Photo for Mongabay by Rhett A. Butler.

Unified land-use map for Indonesia nears launch, but concerns over access remain

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018

Colombia grants ‘historic’ protections to rainforest, indigenous groups

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Apr 2018

Indigenous environmental activist killed in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 12 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

New study discovers 81 lost human settlements in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership

John Cannon 30 Mar 2018

In a land untouched by mines, indigenous holdouts fight a coal invasion

Ian Morse 28 Mar 2018

Traditional landowners reject mining exploration bid in Bougainville

Catherine Wilson 27 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018

Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map

Lalini Pedris 26 Mar 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018
The vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), Zoila Castillo confronts a policeman demanding that she be let into the government palace of Carondelet to personally deliver to the president the order they prepared on March 12, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

Kimberley Brown 22 Mar 2018

UN’s Tauli-Corpuz, accused of terrorism in her native Philippines, plans to keep investigating ‘atrocities’ against indigenous peoples at home

Philip Jacobson 20 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Five years after zero-deforestation vow, little sign of progress from Indonesian pulp giant

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2018
Zapara indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Indigenous women march in Ecuador, vow to ‘defend our territory’

Kimberley Brown 9 Mar 2018

NGOs seek suspension of forest-related funding to DRC in response to proposed end to logging moratorium

John Cannon 8 Mar 2018

Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 8 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder

Mongabay 7 Mar 2018

In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Mar 2018

Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Feb 2018

African Parks to manage gorges, rock art and crocodiles of Chad’s Ennedi

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2018

Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 27 Feb 2018

On an island of plenty, a community tempered by waves braces for rising seas

Ridzki R. Sigit 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

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