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Under siege: oil and gas concessions cover 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon

Canada creates massive new park in the boreal

Asia’s biggest logging company accused of bribery, violence in Papua New Guinea

Church of England drops mining company Vedanta due to indigenous rights concerns

Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Real-life Avatar: court blocks destruction of indigenous community in Borneo

Indigenous in Borneo win “landmark” court ruling over land rights

Forest-bulldozing ranchers win ‘Greenwashing Award’ for claiming they are creating a ‘nature reserve’

Malaysian police destroy homes in Borneo indigenous community

Dams a ‘monument of corruption’: Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party

Uncontacted natives confirmed in Brazil

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Cattle company bulldozing UNESCO site, threatening uncontacted natives

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Malaysian land minister attacks credibility of young indigenous rape victims

Has Canada become the new climate villain (yes, that’s right, Canada)?

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

Will Ecuador’s plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with “their lives”

Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist

Carbon Financing and Community Forestry

Heavy oil pollution remains in Amazon, despite company claiming clean-up is finished

Fifteen indigenous leaders arrested in Borneo for protesting dams that would flood their lands

Independent review finds logging company has abused rights of indigenous Penan in Borneo

World Bank’s IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies

Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak

Penan tribe to continue blockade against loggers with blowpipes and spears

World Bank violated environmental rules in lending to palm oil companies, finds internal audit

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