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Sarawak can meet energy needs without mega-dams: report

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2015

‘Criminalization’ of local people in Indonesian province rife amid oil palm, coal booms

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 1 Jul 2015

NGOs, activists fret new role for Indonesia’s spy agency

Cory Rogers 29 Jun 2015

Indonesian president pledges to accelerate long-delayed indigenous rights law

Sapariah Saturi 26 Jun 2015

Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2015

Indigenous Indonesians file land claim against IndoMet coal project

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2015

Director-generals inaugurated as merger of Indonesian Environment, Forestry Ministries continues

Sapariah Saturi 2 Jun 2015

‘Green’ hydropower dam fuels charges of gross human rights violations

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2015

Mining and Energy Contracts under Investigation as Corruption Scandals Rock Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 22 May 2015

Red tape or repression? NGOs fight for a place in the new Bolivia they helped Evo Morales create

Alexandra Ellerbeck 22 May 2015

Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets: Maya Q’eqchi’ seek justice in Guatemala and Canada

Sandra Cuffe 19 May 2015

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2015

Featured video: ‘A river in dispute’ documentary explores how a planned dam in the Amazon is affecting traditional communities

Agência Pública 15 Apr 2015

Kaiduan dam in Borneo meets fierce opposition

Mike Gaworecki 6 Apr 2015

Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

Kirk Talbott and Gabriel Thoumi 3 Apr 2015

Reservations about Indonesian ‘land reform’ as details unclear

Sapariah Saturi 2 Apr 2015

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Loren Bell 18 Mar 2015

Bushmeat’s dual role: threatened species face off against nutrition and culture

Victor Montoro 5 Mar 2015

Cambodia deports activist leader…then suspends controversial dam

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2015

Partnering for conservation benefits Tacana people, Bolivian park

Barbara Fraser 25 Feb 2015

Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier

Ana Aranha 20 Feb 2015

Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe

Ana Aranha 19 Feb 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

Arctic upheaval: new book outlines challenges at the top of the world

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2015

How do parks affect the poor? Jury’s still out, some experts say

Barbara Fraser 13 Feb 2015

Innovating Brazil nuts: a business with roots in the rainforest

Barbara Fraser 11 Feb 2015

Video: innovative tourism helps protect forests in Amazonian Peru

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

World Bank’s forest carbon program falls short on indigenous peoples’ rights, argues report

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve

Barbara Fraser 29 Jan 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Indigenous territories play dual role as homelands and protected areas

Barbara Fraser 22 Jan 2015

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