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The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Southeast Asia in review: 2024

Farmers cleave to sago as mining industry digs deeper in Indonesia’s Maluku

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane

The 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2024

Brazil’s Lula approves 13 Indigenous lands after much delay, promises more to come

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

In the Philippines, persecuted Lumads push for Indigenous schools to be reopened

On Indonesia’s unique Enggano Island, palm oil takes root in an Indigenous society

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Photos: The lives and forests bound to Indonesia’s nickel dreams

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads

Kenya blames and evicts Ogiek people for deforestation, but forest loss persists

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Hopes and fears for the Amazon: Interview with botanist Hans ter Steege

Lithium mining brings sickness to Jequitinhonha Valley communities

‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays

Brazil calls for ambition at COP but struggles over its own climate policy

An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded

New Canadian-backed potash mine under fire from Amazon Indigenous groups

The underreported killing of Colombia’s Indigenous land guardian, ‘The Wolf’ (Photos)

Can cattle and wildlife co-exist in the Maasai Mara? A controversial study says yes

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Indigenous advocates lament decade of failures by Indonesia’s Jokowi

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