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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

Indigenous blockade expands against massive dam in Sarawak

Jeremy Hance 8 Oct 2012

Scientists name new snake species to criticize mine plans in Panama (photos)

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2012

Talisman abandons Amazon oil development in Peru’s rainforest

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2012

Human rights key to rainforest conservation, argues report

Mongabay.com 6 Sep 2012

Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD to meet promises

Jeremy Hance 30 Aug 2012

Construction of controversial Belo Monte dam stopped

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2012

Move to regularize mining in Colombia spurs concerns

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2012

Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazilian court, appeal likely but difficult

Jeremy Hance 15 Aug 2012

Evidence of ‘isolated’ indigenous people found in Peru where priest is pushing highway

David Hill 14 Aug 2012

Human rights court favors indigenous tribe over Ecuadorian government in oil battle

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2012

Brazil decree opens tribal lands to mining, dams in ‘national interest’

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jul 2012

Indigenous tribes hold 3 engineers hostage over Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 26 Jul 2012

Smartphones promoted as a tool for indigenous forest protection

Andrew Davey 23 Jul 2012

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Jeremy Hance 19 Jul 2012

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