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The Trans-Papua Highway could lose billions and deforest millions of hectares

Protecting New Guinea’s forests with birds-of-paradise and ecotourism

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

In Kathmandu, a struggle for water amid worsening floods

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

China’s building spree in Nepal casts shadow over Himalayan ecosystem

Wary welcome for Indonesia’s ‘green port’ initiative to clean up shipping

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

In Laos, a ‘very dangerous dam’ threatens an ancient world heritage site

Tigers, jaguars under threat from tropical hydropower projects: Study

Bali’s new highway project sparks concerns about agriculture and conservation areas

Carnivores avoid rush hour by taking to roads at night

Forest declarations are nice, but profitability determines land use in the Amazon (Book excerpt)

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Starving and injured Sumatran tiger dies in captivity, Indonesian officials report

UNESCO reiterates road project’s dangers to Papua park as Indonesia doubles down

In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Infrastructure projects in Congo Basin need greater oversight, report says

COP-26: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are vital to fighting global warming (commentary)

A new 100-page report raises alarm over Chevron’s impact on planet

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

BR-319 highway hearings: An attack on Brazil’s interests and Amazonia’s future (commentary)

Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra

‘Unequal exchange’ for Brazil community in shadow of Anglo American mine

Green groups call for scrapping of $300m loan offer for Borneo road project

Math campus multiplies threats to Rio de Janeiro’s dwindling Atlantic Forest

Tanzanian gold miners ten times more likely to die from road injuries, study finds

When North America locked down, birds filled the gap left by people

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

New transport infrastructure is opening the Amazon to global commerce

Railroad and mine projects stir up anxiety in rural Brazil communities

Win for Malaysian forest after government backs down on development plan

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