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Anti-mining activist from Indonesia wins top green honor

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2013

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Miners win ruling over indigenous groups in Guyana

Jeremy Hance 29 Jan 2013

Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2012

Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

‘National scandal:’ foreign companies stripped Papua New Guinea of community-owned forests

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2012

Agricultural area larger than Texas has been ‘land-grabbed’

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2012

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

Indigenous rights rising in tropical forests, but big gaps remain

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

Cambodia suspends economic land concessions

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

‘Gold’ standard for REDD forest conservation project in Colombia’s Choco

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2012

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Indonesia to require loggers prove their concessions free of overlapping claims

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2012

Group releases photos of Borneo rainforest to be converted for palm plantations

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2012

Colonization program remains important driver of deforestation in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jan 2012

Biofuel aspirations spur ‘land grabs’ that hurt the poor, says report

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2011

Community mapping of African rainforests could show way forward for preservation, REDD

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

Carbon piracy, lack of recognition of indigenous rights undermining REDD in Peru, alleges report

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2011

Indigenous religious leader murdered in front of his tribe in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2011

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

Jeremy Hance 31 Jul 2011

Indonesia to recognize rights of forest communities, indigenous peoples

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jul 2011

Community control, rather than govt control, helps forests recover, says study

Mongabay.com 7 Jul 2011

Bloody June: fifth rural activist assassinated in Brazil this month

Karimeh Moukaddem 16 Jun 2011

Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil

Karimeh Moukaddem 10 Jun 2011

90% of tropical forests managed poorly or not at all

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2011

Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corps

Mongabay.com 6 May 2011

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