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Over 100 arrested as tar sands civil disobedience spreads to Canada

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Following violent crackdown against protestors, Bolivia puts Amazon road project on ice

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Featured video: new documentary puts human face on logging in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Tribal leader to the UN: Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are in danger

Almir Surui Narayamoga Of The Surui Tribe 22 Sep 2011

Indigenous people blockade river against ‘murderous’ oil company

Jeremy Hance 21 Sep 2011

Malaysian court blocks rainforest tribes’ fight against mega-dam in Borneo

Jeremy Hance 9 Sep 2011

Peru president signs indigenous rights act into law

Jeremy Hance 7 Sep 2011

Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film documents how industrial logging destroys lives

Jeremy Hance 29 Aug 2011

Peru passes landmark indigenous rights legislation

Jeremy Hance 24 Aug 2011

Indigenous protestors embark on 300-mile walk to protest Amazon road in Bolivia

Karimeh Moukaddem 21 Aug 2011

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2011

Environmental protection agency chief: Brazil will do the same to indigenous as ‘Australians did to the Aborigines’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2011

Oil company hires indigenous people to clean up its Amazon spill with rags and buckets

Jeremy Hance 13 Jul 2011

Indonesia to recognize rights of forest communities, indigenous peoples

Rhett A. Butler 12 Jul 2011

Logging company fined $100 million for illegal logging in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 28 Jun 2011

Last chance to see: the Amazon’s Xingu River

Jeremy Hance 15 Jun 2011

Germany backs out of Yasuni deal

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2011

Brazil’s shame

Rhett A. Butler 3 Jun 2011

Photos: Cambodians rally as ‘Avatars’ to save one of the region’s last great rainforests

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2011

Shareholders to Chevron: company showing ‘poor judgment’ in Ecuador oil spill case

Jeremy Hance 26 May 2011

ConocoPhillips withdraws from oil exploitation in uncontacted indigenous territory

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2011

Controversial Brazilian mega-dam receives investment of $1.4 billion

Jeremy Hance 2 May 2011

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe’s territory sparks legal action

Jeremy Hance 12 Apr 2011

Memberantas penebangan liar di Indonesia dengan memberikan kesempatan pada masyarakat lokal untuk mengelola hutan

Rhett A. Butler 8 Apr 2011

Indigenous group claims Ecuadorian government complicit in ‘genocide’

Jeremy Hance 6 Apr 2011

Malaysian palm oil giant in fight with forest people gets rebuke from RSPO

Mongabay.com 6 Apr 2011

Indigenous community takes court ruling into own hands and seizes oil palm plantation

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2011

Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

Goodbye national parks: when ‘eternal’ protected areas come under attack

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Coalition calls on Europe to label palm oil on food products

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2011

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