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Indonesia’s president says he will work to register and recognize customary forests

Diana Parker 28 Jun 2013

Why Panama’s indigenous pulled out of the UN’s REDD program

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2013

Over 30 tons of explosives to be detonated in Manu National Park buffer zone

David Hill 24 Jun 2013

Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

Frances Yan-man-shing 13 Jun 2013

Indigenous sacred sites now qualify as protected areas in Colombia

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to consult with indigenous peoples

Jeremy Hance 20 May 2013

In landmark ruling, Indonesia’s indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2013

Indigenous association to sue to shut down Panama’s REDD+ program

Mongabay.com 17 May 2013

NGO: conflict of interests behind Peruvian highway proposal in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 May 2013

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013

Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Featured video: Earth Day message from indigenous tribes in the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 23 Apr 2013

Judge halts military-backed dam assessment in Brazil’s Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Apr 2013

After decades of turning a blind eye, Peru declares state of emergency due to oil contamination in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

NGO says Malaysian regulators should shut down two Sarawak companies after damning video

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Video uncovers top level corruption in Sarawak over indigenous forests

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2013

Panama’s indigenous people drop REDD+

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2013

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2013

Helping Borneo’s indigenous people fight for their forests

Allison Hanes 28 Jan 2013

Malaysian candidate pledges to drop controversial dam in Sarawak if elected

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2013

Tribes to sue Peru over planned oil expansion

Mongabay.com 12 Dec 2012

Uncontacted tribes still exist, but extinction threat looms

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2012

Featured video: how locals depend on Kalimantan’s vanishing forests

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Legislation leaves future of world’s largest temperate rainforest up in the air

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2012

Oil drilling approved for national park in Belize

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 20 Nov 2012

Penan suspend dam blockade, give government one month to respond to demands

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2012

UNESCO disturbed by gas plans for Peru’s Manu National Park

David Hill 15 Oct 2012

Indigenous groups re-occupy Belo Monte dam in the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2012

First REDD Textbook – Forest and Climate Change: The Social Dimensions of REDD in Latin America – Book Review

Gabriel Thoumi 8 Oct 2012

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