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Wariness over Indonesian president’s vow to get tough on land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

In Indonesia, bigger catches for a fishing village protecting its mangroves

Aseanty Pahlevi 3 May 2019
A Wounaan bird-watching group from the community of Puerto Lara during a hike in the local forest. Image by Alexander Arosemena for Mongabay.

Panamanian indigenous people act to protect the forest from invading loggers

Guido Bilbao 2 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

In Indonesia, a company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits

Ian Morse 26 Mar 2019

Liberia’s new land rights law hailed as victory, but critics say it’s not enough

Jennifer O’Mahony 22 Mar 2019

Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2019

Indonesian candidates find common ground in support for palm oil

Basten Gokkon 20 Feb 2019
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Few eco commitments and suspect funding for Indonesia presidential hopefuls

Basten Gokkon 15 Feb 2019

Short film celebrates community forest titles in DRC

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2019

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018
Planet satellite image of Sipatnanam, Fakfak Regency. Taken in September 2018. Courtesy of Planet.

To conserve West Papua, start with land rights (commentary)

Bernadinus Steni, Daniel Nepstad 5 Oct 2018

Indonesian president signs order to accelerate land reform

Donny Iqbal, Lusia Arumingtyas 25 Sep 2018

Amid ongoing evictions, Kenya’s Sengwer make plans to save their ancestral forest

Anthony Langat 24 Sep 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

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018
Argemiros Capela stands on his lot in front a small patch of forest that has started to grow back after years of desertification, Montes de Maria. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo/Mongabay.

Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land

Maximo Anderson 9 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

In rural Indonesia, a village learns to embrace its forest through sustainability

Dedek Hendry 6 Dec 2017

As Indonesia pushes flagship land reform program, farmers remain wary

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Nov 2017

Indonesian president recognizes land rights of nine more indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2017
Adult male orangutan in Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia tries to learn from Brazil’s success in REDD+

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2017

Liberian park protects Critically Endangered western chimpanzees

John Cannon 22 Sep 2017

Wilmar appeals RSPO ruling that it grabbed indigenous lands in Sumatra

Rachel Diaz-Bastin 17 May 2017

A return to mixed roots in a Sumatran forest

Dedek Hendry 2 May 2017
A rainbow skink in coastal Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Colombia’s peace could pressure the environment

Henry Siqueira Barras 28 Sep 2016
Sime Darby plantation in Cape Mount County. Photo courtesy JPN Liberia

Liberia land policy a ‘challenge to national development’

Mark M. Dahn 14 Sep 2016

Reservations about Indonesian ‘land reform’ as details unclear

Sapariah Saturi 2 Apr 2015

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