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Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

Major Brazilian supermarket chain will stop stocking Amazon-destroying beef

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016
CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Malaysian palm oil giant IOI suspended from RSPO

Mongabay.com 25 Mar 2016

Baby orangutan poachers get 2.5 years in Sumatra

Rahmadi Rahmad 25 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Illegal deforestation for ‘sustainable’ chocolate continues in Peru

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford 4 Mar 2016

Conservationists part ways on primary forest logging

Saul Elbein 29 Feb 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016
Peat forest cleared for pulp and paper in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

New tool seeks end to Indonesian paper giants’ secret links

Loren Bell 26 Feb 2016

Indonesia’s peat peninsula being drained into oblivion, study finds

Loren Bell 24 Feb 2016
Illegal encroachment for palm oil production in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian palm oil giant joins no-deforestation pledge amid criticism from politicians

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2016

Republic of Congo awards two million hectares of timber concessions

John Cannon 11 Feb 2016

Is this Malaysian palm oil firm still destroying forest in Borneo — and selling to Wilmar?

Jonathan Vit 9 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

Prospective Congo palm oil plantation wrecking prime great ape habitat

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2016

Imperiled Amazon freshwater ecosystems urgently need basin-wide study, management

Claire Salisbury 1 Feb 2016

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mike Gaworecki 29 Jan 2016

Brazilian court suspends operating license for Belo Monte dam

Glenn Scherer 15 Jan 2016

Is eco-certification the solution to forest destruction?

Saul Elbein 14 Jan 2016

Forest loss increased annually for 25 years at oldest Amazon mega-dam

Claire Salisbury 14 Jan 2016

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