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Nine months in, how has Jokowi fared on the environment?

‘Criminalization’ of local people in Indonesian province rife amid oil palm, coal booms

NGOs, activists fret new role for Indonesia’s spy agency

‘Trying to follow the money’: Opacity rules in Southeast Asia’s land rush, finds study

Coordinated protests hit Socfin plantations in four countries

Ghosts of problems past and present loom over Nigerian palm oil plans

Land redistribution in Zimbabwe threatens wildlife and human populations

Farmers fall short in legal challenge to Java cement plant

Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation’ challenges

Reservations about Indonesian ‘land reform’ as details unclear

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Indonesia to verify ownership of 66M ha of disputed forest land

Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002

Community’s push to clear forest for plantation challenges efforts to conserve in Indonesia

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

New web tool aims to help indigenous groups protect forests and navigate REDD+

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Investors risk billions by overlooking potential land conflicts, study shows

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Indonesia’s president says he will work to register and recognize customary forests

Solving ‘wicked problems’: ten principles for improved environmental management

Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples

Data on big transboundary land acquisition deals now available

Indonesia’s largest coal plant will be built despite protests, minister says

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Up for grabs: how foreign investments are redistributing land and water across the globe

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

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