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New forest map for Sarawak reveals large-scale deforestation, encroachment on indigenous territories

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Feb 2014

Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people

David Hill 4 Feb 2014

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Jeremy Hance 6 Jan 2014

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Dec 2013

Canada’s biggest logger loses eco-certification

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2013

Indonesia urged to implement decision recognizing indigenous rights to land

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2013

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Jeremy Hance 10 Dec 2013

Gold mine near controversial Belo Monte dam suspended

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2013

Prize exploring the next big idea in rainforest conservation announced

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2013

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Jeremy Hance 12 Nov 2013

Redeeming REDD: a conversation with Michael Brown

Nabiha Megateli-das 11 Nov 2013

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2013

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 12 Sep 2013

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

Diana Parker 10 Sep 2013

Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectares of customary forest in 7 years

Diana Parker 28 Aug 2013

Isolated Amazonian tribe makes another appearance in Peru (video)

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

Yasuni could still be spared oil drilling

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2013

UN REDD program failing to build capacity for indigenous people in Panama

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Aug 2013

Weak laws governing Malaysia’s indigenous people complicate conservation efforts

Dr Liz Kimbrough 22 Jul 2013

Brazil’s military takes on illegal loggers to protect nearly-extinct tribe

Jeremy Hance 18 Jul 2013

Billions lost to corruption in Indonesia’s forest sector, says report

Diana Parker 17 Jul 2013

Featured video: Indonesian community uses mapping to fight palm oil takeover

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2013

Activists raise alarm over park that will dispossess Borneo tribe of land

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jul 2013

Activists, indigenous people plan healing walk in ‘sick’ tar sands landscape

Stephen Leahy 1 Jul 2013

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

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