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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

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

Lucy EJ Woods 31 Aug 2018

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

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 23 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

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Anna Sophie Gross 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

Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 1 Aug 2018

Mexico: pipeline divides Yaqui communities and triggers wave of violence

Rodrigo Soberanes 1 Aug 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2018

Indonesia forest assessment casts an optimistic light on a complex issue

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Jul 2018

Number of murdered environmental activists rose once again in 2017

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018

Indigenous stewardship is critical to success of protected areas (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie, James Watson 25 Jul 2018

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018
John Aini at a Malagan ceremony. Image by JC Salyer.

Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 16 Jul 2018

‘Decolonizing conservation’: Q&A with PNG marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 12 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jul 2018

Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Lucy EJ Woods 4 Jul 2018

Investing in indigenous communities is most efficient way to protect forests, report finds

Cory Rogers 2 Jul 2018

Papua New Guinea landowners take up arms against natural gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 26 Jun 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018

DRC adopts a strategy that will bolster community forestry, conservation group says

John Cannon 25 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Abdon Nababan: ‘North Sumatran land mafia offered me $21m to win election — and then hand over control of government’

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 21 Jun 2018

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