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Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Upgrade of Indonesian palm oil certification falls short, observers say

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Jul 2020

Canada not walking the talk on its miners’ abuses abroad, campaigners say

Chris Arsenault 24 Jul 2020

New report asks, do land titles help poor farmers?

John Cannon 22 Jul 2020

Photos: In southern Papua, navigating an alien world built on palm oil

Albertus Vembrianto 22 Jul 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

‘Injustice’ for West Papuans whose land was sold out from under them

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2020

Indonesian parliament to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with Indigenous group

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

The Consultant: Why did a palm oil conglomerate pay $22m to an unnamed ‘expert’ in Papua?

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 25 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca and Rafael Oliveira from Agência Pública 23 Jun 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers for ‘stealing’ from land they claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

A bid to legitimize invasions of Brazil’s indigenous lands faces a court challenge

Caio de Freitas Paes 10 Jun 2020

Bison: (Back) home on the range

John Cannon 10 Jun 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2020

Loggers attack Brazilian environmental official in Amazon; Bolsonaro silent

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020

Calls for end to business with paper giant APP over Sumatra land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2020

Kafka in the Amazon: Volunteer forest fire fighter charged with arson still in limbo

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020

Naga tribes of Myanmar face loss of land and forest under new law

Robert Bociaga 14 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Indonesia moves to end smallholder guarantee meant to empower palm oil farmers

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2020

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford 8 May 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

Flooding devastates Ecuador’s indigenous communities in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 May 2020

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 30 Apr 2020

Murder, logging and land theft: inside a crime factory in the Amazon

Maurício Monteiro/Repórter Brasil 30 Apr 2020
Kanamari indigenous child in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas state, one of the most vulnerable indigenous reserves to COVID-19, according to an analysis by the Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), a Brazilian NGO. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real

Evicted indigenous people in Manaus struggle to stay safe amid COVID-19 crisis

Ignacio Amigo 29 Apr 2020

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