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Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado

Caio de Freitas Paes 3 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Jan 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon

Aline Maciel, Bianca Muniz, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros from Agência Pública 15 Jan 2021

Paper giant APP failing its own sustainability goals, report alleges

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Jan 2021

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jan 2021
Oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge trading in ‘conflict’ palm oil, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2021
Forest cleared for palm oil production in Indonesia. Rhett C. Butler for Mongabay.

Top Indonesian palm oil developments in 2020

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2020

Traditional and Indigenous peoples ‘denounce’ planned Amazon railway

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 23 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020
Farmers cut grass and shrub fodder for their livestock. Photo by Maheder Haileselassie Tadese for Mongabay.

Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says

Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2020

An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru

Francesca García Delgado 16 Dec 2020

Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020
A drone image reveals trees cut from the Cardamom Mountains being processed in a yard. Photo courtesy of Marcus Hardtke.

Alleged gov’t-linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains

Kit Humphrey 1 Dec 2020

Indigenous land rights and the global push for land privatization

Mike Gaworecki 25 Nov 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s ‘militarized agriculture’ raises social, environmental red flags

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2020

Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

Sue Branford 21 Oct 2020

Fire burns Pantanal’s upland heart and threatens nature’s fragile balance

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Oct 2020

Harvard fund evades justice in land-grabbing case over Cerrado farm

Caio de Freitas Paes 15 Oct 2020

In a drier Amazon, small farmers and researchers work together to reduce fire damage

Letícia Klein, Thiago Medaglia 8 Oct 2020

Indonesia’s food estate program eyes new plantations in forest frontiers

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Oct 2020

Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military

Jenny Gonzales 29 Sep 2020

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