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Meet the Bornean village chief dealing with the fallout from a corrupt plantation deal

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 1 Aug 2018
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 1 Aug 2018
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

In battle over land rights, indigenous groups are fighting uphill

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jul 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Palm oil firms using ‘shadow companies’ to hide their links to deforestation: report

Daniel Pye 9 Jul 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Lucy EJ Woods 4 Jul 2018

Papua New Guinea landowners take up arms against natural gas project

Lucy EJ Woods 26 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Mariyady, the priest investigating the corporate takeover of indigenous peoples’ forests in Borneo

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 11 Jun 2018

When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Jun 2018

How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Taran Volckhausen 31 May 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 31 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero, Mauricio Torres 9 May 2018

Crisis in Venezuela: Caparo Experimental Station invaded by 200 farmers

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 7 May 2018

New film shines light on cattle industry link to Amazon deforestation

Anna Sophie Gross 1 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

Ghosts in the machine: the land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 18 Apr 2018

Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

Mike Gaworecki 17 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 12 Apr 2018

How the farmers of Seruyan rose up a against a palm oil fiefdom

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 5 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Apr 2018

Ire and ore: Demands grow for clarity around Cambodian gold mine

Rod Harbinson 3 Apr 2018

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

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