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Quilombolas’ community land rights under attack by Brazilian ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 25 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Landless Workers Movement protest occupies farms of Brazil’s elite

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2017

Is Nicaragua one of the world’s ‘deadliest countries’ to be an environmental defender? (commentary)

John Perry 28 Jul 2017

Suspect Beef: Central America

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2017

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Jul 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Warnings and protests mark Brazilian President Temer’s trip to Norway

Mike Gaworecki 22 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 16 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres, Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

Papuan clan leader laments influx of migrants to sacred Cyclops Mountains

Christopel Paino 14 Jun 2017

‘Give us back our land’: paper giants struggle to resolve conflicts with communities in Sumatra

Alice Cuddy 9 Jun 2017

Indigenous Guarani leader appeals to Europe to save people and forests

Lucy EJ Woods 7 Jun 2017

Philippines’ indigenous Higaonon fight for return of ancestral land

Brad Miller 1 Jun 2017

Brazil assaults indigenous rights, environment, social movements

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Jun 2017

Temer seeks to privatize Brazil’s deforestation remote sensing program

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 26 May 2017

Brazil agribusiness company accuses ally Temer in secret bribe taping

Jenny Gonzales 23 May 2017

A stubborn dreamer who fought to save Amazon’s Waimiri-Atroari passes

Sue Branford 18 May 2017

Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 May 2017

Industry-NGO coalition releases toolkit for making ‘No Deforestation’ commitments a reality on the ground

Mike Gaworecki 10 May 2017
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017

‘Killed, forced, afraid’: Philippine palm oil legacy incites new fears

Brad Miller 9 May 2017

“We don’t believe in words anymore”: Indians stand against Temer govt.

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017

Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war between opposing worldviews

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Apr 2017

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