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In Latin America, energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds

The cost of conservation without consent: Astrid Puentes on rights-based environmentalism

Indigenous guards: The shield of Colombia’s Amazon

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Protecting the Darién Gap: Interview with Panama national parks director Luis Carles Rudy

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

‘It’s our garden’: PNG villages fight to prevent mine waste dumping in the sea

EU appetite for EVs drives new wave of deforestation in tropical forests

On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams

Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

In a big win, Yurok Nation reclaims vital creek and watershed to restore major salmon run

Study shows Vietnam’s ethnic communities’ grapple with hydropower plant impacts

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Ahead of hosting COP30, Brazil is set to weaken environmental licensing

Amazon illegal gold mines drive sex trafficking in the Brazil-Guyana border

A new mall for the village: How carbon credit dollars affect Indigenous Guyanese

Deforestation and fires persist in Indonesia’s pulpwood and biomass plantations

In Nepal, confrontation looms over controversial cable car project as court lifts stay order

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