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A forest beset by oil palms, logging, now contends with a coal-trucking road

Elviza Diana 28 May 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019

Former Brazilian enviro ministers blast Bolsonaro environmental assaults

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 23 May 2019

Documentary on world’s rarest ape generates film festival buzz

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 May 2019

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Jennifer O’Mahony 21 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

Bolivia: Nature rights tribunal condemns TIPNIS project

Mongabay.com 20 May 2019

Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

Two-thirds of Earth’s longest rivers no longer free-flowing

Mike Gaworecki 8 May 2019

In traffic-blighted Penang, transport upgrade plans raise hopes and fears

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 3 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Amazon fish kill at Sinop spotlights risk from 80+ Tapajós basin dams

Caio de Freitas Paes 29 Apr 2019

Brazil Supreme Court land demarcation decision sparks indigenous protest

Karla Mendes 26 Apr 2019

Ocean winds, wave heights have increased around the world

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2019

Survey: Less coal, more solar, say citizens of Belt & Road countries

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Apr 2019

Indonesia electricity chief charged with bribery over coal-fired power plant

Basten Gokkon 25 Apr 2019

IUCN calls for moratorium on projects impacting rarest great ape species

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Apr 2019

A park in Bolivia bears the brunt of a plan to export electricity

Miriam Telma Jemio 17 Apr 2019

Deforestation diminishes access to clean water, study finds

John Cannon 15 Apr 2019

Sumatran governor jailed over bribes to award infrastructure projects

Mongabay.com 9 Apr 2019

3 massacres in 12 days: Rural violence escalates in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 8 Apr 2019

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, grassroots opposition stalls another hydropower project

Jordan Salama 3 Apr 2019

Sarawak can invest in or give away its future (commentary)

Daniel Kammen 1 Apr 2019
A Shiwiar man paints his face with paint made from local plants before the assembly starts. Photo by Kimberley A. Brown.

Indigenous groups in Ecuador convene to talk resistance in the Amazon

Kimberley Brown 1 Apr 2019

Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Text by Gustavo Faleiros and images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019

‘Nothing was left’: Flash floods, landslides hit Indonesia’s Papua region

Asrida Elisabeth, Della Syahni, Lusia Arumingtyas 21 Mar 2019

Tear down the dams: New coalition strives to enshrine rights of orcas

Gianluca Cerullo 19 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 14 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

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