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Deforestation puts cultural survival of forest-dependent peoples at risk

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2014

Is the Gran Canal really a ‘big Christmas present’ for Nicaraguans?

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

An end to unjust conservation? (commentary)

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 16 Nov 2014

Indigenous uprising earned tribe territories, but greatest challenges lie ahead

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 6 Nov 2014

Brazilian tribes demarcate territory in bid to block dams

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Nov 2014

Between the Forest and the Sea: The Yarsuisuit Collective – Part II

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 31 Oct 2014

Between the forest and the sea: life and climate change in Guna Yala – Part I

Roberto (bear) Guerra - Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 27 Oct 2014

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Jeremy Hance 27 Oct 2014

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

Jeremy Hance 22 Sep 2014

Legislation protecting Indonesia’s indigenous communities is not good enough, says advocacy group

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 18 Sep 2014

The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Ruxandra Guidi - Mongabay.org Special Reporting Initiative Fellow 4 Sep 2014

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Jeremy Hance 27 Aug 2014

Indonesia to hear indigenous peoples’ grievances on land disputes

Loren Bell 22 Aug 2014

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Jeremy Hance 23 Jul 2014

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

Jeremy Hance 2 Jun 2014

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

New report reveals human rights abuses by corporations, governments in the Amazon

Jordanna Dulaney 14 May 2014

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2014

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Jeremy Hance 28 Apr 2014

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Jeremy Hance 22 Apr 2014

Small monkeys take over when big primates have been hunted out in the Amazon

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 21 Apr 2014

Ecuador will have referendum on fate of Yasuni after activists collect over 700,000 signatures

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2014

Featured video: celebrities speak out for Yasuni

Jeremy Hance 2 Apr 2014

Study warns of possible REDD+ land grab

Diana Parker 30 Mar 2014

Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation

Diana Parker 25 Mar 2014

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2014

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