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Chevron found guilty, ordered to pay $8.2 billion in epic oil contamination fight

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2011

Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2011

Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to stagnate

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2011

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Sarawak’s last nomad: indigenous leader and activist, Along Sega, dies

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

United States to back U.N. indigenous rights declaration

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2010

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Prominent indigenous leader gets death threats in Guyana

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Sarawak to cut down 1 million ha of rainforest for palm oil

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2010

Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives’ territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2010

Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Undergrads in the Amazon: American students witness beauty and crisis in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2010

Foreign corporations devastating Papua New Guinea rainforests

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2010

NGO warns oil exploration in Peru may ‘decimate’ uncontacted tribes

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

The ultimate bike trip: the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

Can ’boutique capitalism’ help protect the Amazon?

Jeremy Hance 11 Oct 2010

The Nestlé example: how responsible companies could end deforestation

Jeremy Hance 6 Oct 2010

Yasuni on film: could a documentary save the world’s most biodiverse ecosystem?

Jeremy Hance 4 Oct 2010

Could industrial interests ruin payments for environmental services?

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2010

Rapid growth of palm oil industry tramples indigenous peoples’ rights, says report

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2010

India blocks ‘Avatar’ mining project that threatened tribe

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2010

146 dams threaten Amazon basin

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2010

Exploring Kenya’s sky island

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2010

India’s Avatar: decision coming on mine that threatens indigenous group

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2010

Colombian indigenous leader shot dead

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2010

Hunting threatens the other Amazon: where harpy eagles are common and jaguars easy to spot, an interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2010

Oil devastates indigenous tribes from the Amazon to the Gulf

Nikolas Kozloff 27 Jul 2010

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