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

Diana Parker 28 Aug 2013

Palm oil licenses provide cover for logging in New Guinea

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2013

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

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2013

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

Diana Parker 28 Jun 2013

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

Jaboury Ghazoul 23 Jun 2013

Data on big transboundary land acquisition deals now available

Tanya Dimitrova 11 Jun 2013

Indonesia’s largest coal plant will be built despite protests, minister says

Diana Parker 26 May 2013

Central America’s largest forest under siege by colonists

Jeremy Hance 6 May 2013

Up for grabs: how foreign investments are redistributing land and water across the globe

Erica Santana 18 Apr 2013

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

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