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

The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests

‘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

Indonesia to hear indigenous peoples’ grievances on land disputes

Booming populations, rising economies, threatened biodiversity: the tropics will never be the same

Study warns of possible REDD+ land grab

Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation

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

Cocaine: the new face of deforestation in Central America

Indonesia urged to implement decision recognizing indigenous rights to land

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

40% of Brazil’s rural area owned by 1.4% of landholders

Palm oil deal undermines efforts to resolve 25-year conflict in Sumatra

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

Large-scale opposition among Borneo villagers to deforestation

Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectares of customary forest in 7 years

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil

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

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

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

Anti-mining activist from Indonesia wins top green honor

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

NGO says Malaysian regulators should shut down two Sarawak companies after damning video

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

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