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Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Maluku bone collector unearths troubling consequence of coastal abrasion

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

The $20m flip: The story of the largest land grab in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation

In Vietnam, a forest grown from the ashes of war falls to a resort project

Cambodia’s elites swallow up Phnom Penh’s lakes, leaving the poor marooned

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

Brazil Congress fast-tracks ‘death package’ bill to mine on Indigenous lands

To fight invaders, Munduruku women wield drone cameras and cellphones

In Brazil, Indigenous Ka’apor take their territory’s defense into their own hands

In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others

In Brazil, an agribusiness haven’s green pivot leaves many skeptical

Vale told Brazil communities they were in danger. They say Vale wants their land

Scientists, communities battle against Philippine land reclamation project

After two collapses, a third Vale dam at ‘imminent risk of rupture’

Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

Despite COVID, political divides, conservation can advance: Hansjörg Wyss

Public lands and parks are our common heritage: Bruce Babbitt

Can public lands unify divided Americans? An interview with John Leshy

Life among the turtles: Traditional people struggle inside an Amazon reserve

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

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

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

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