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Brazil cripples illegal gold mining operations in indigenous territory

Scientists propose a new way forward on orangutan conservation

Still time to save most species in the Brazilian Amazon

Indigenous tribes end occupation of Belo Monte

Vietnam buys stakes in controversial oil blocks threatening Peru’s most vulnerable indigenous people

Experts dispute recent study that claims little impact by pre-Columbian tribes in Amazon

Indigenous tribes occupy Belo Monte dam for over 10 days

Forgotten species: the overlooked Sumatran striped rabbit

Congolese experts needed to protect Congo Basin rainforests

Sarawak tribe calls on German company to walk away from controversial dam

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

Jaguars photographed in palm oil plantation

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

Growing cardamom impacts forests for decades

New population of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey discovered in China

U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destruction, slave labor

Can loggers be conservationists?

Cambodia suspends economic land concessions

Exploring Asia’s lost world

Forest activist shot dead in Cambodia allegedly over photos of illegal logging

NGO: lifting sanctions on Myanmar must lead to forestry reform

Oil company Perenco endangering ‘uncontacted’ indigenous people, says Peru

$90 million in corrupt logging money linked to Malaysian Chief Minister, UBS bank

Featured video: How to save the Amazon

Indigenous groups oppose priest pushing for road through uncontacted tribes’ land

Two new frogs discovered in Philippines spur calls for more conservation efforts

Pictures: Destruction of the Amazon’s Xingu River begins for Belo Monte Dam

Two-foot-long cloud rat rediscovered after missing for forty years in the Philippines

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

Featured video: wild Sumatran elephants on camera trap video

Blood rosewood: Thailand and Cambodia team up to tackle illegal logging crisis and save lives

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest

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