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California proposes ban on selling shark fin

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2011

Selling the Forests that Saved Britain

Glenn Hurowitz 15 Feb 2011

Chevron found guilty, ordered to pay $8.2 billion in epic oil contamination fight

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2011

Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2011

Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to stagnate

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2011

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Sarawak’s last nomad: indigenous leader and activist, Along Sega, dies

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Greening the world with palm oil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jan 2011

Deforestation continues in Somalia despite charcoal ban

Emily Kirkland 23 Jan 2011

Last year worst yet for rhino killings in South Africa

Jeremy Hance 19 Jan 2011

Wildlife crime goes largely unpunished in Indonesia

Erik Meijaard 10 Jan 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

U.S. passes legislation to protect sharks

Mongabay.com 5 Jan 2011

United States to back U.N. indigenous rights declaration

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2010

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Local rules trump regulations imposed by outsiders in Madagascar

Wildmadagascar.org 19 Dec 2010

Prominent indigenous leader gets death threats in Guyana

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

California approves cap-and-trade under global warming law

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Australia cracks down on illegal timber

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Dec 2010

Sarawak to cut down 1 million ha of rainforest for palm oil

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2010

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2010

Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives’ territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2010

Bad books: US paper products are breaking the law and devastating rainforests

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2010

Critics say Obama slow on endangered species

Jeremy Hance 15 Nov 2010

Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Local efforts block attempt to ship illegal rosewood from Madagascar

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2010

Mato Grosso moves to strip protection of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Nov 2010

Wildlife trafficker gets 5 years in Malaysian prison

Mongabay.com 4 Nov 2010

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