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Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

Brazil ignored U.N. letters warning of land defender threats, record killings

Jenny Gonzales 23 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Anna Sophie Gross 21 Mar 2018

Report finds projects in DRC ‘REDD+ laboratory’ fall short of development, conservation goals

John Cannon 16 Mar 2018

Arkani, the Dayak known as Jenggot Naga — Dragon Beard

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 8 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 7 Mar 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

John Cannon 20 Feb 2018
Protesters in Ecuador. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

Environmental defenders increasingly targeted, data shows

Mongabay.com 13 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 13 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Sumatra’s ‘tiger descendants’ cling to their customs as coal mines encroach

Dedek Hendry 30 Jan 2018

Maduro seeks sell off of Venezuela’s natural resources to escape debt – analysis

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Indonesia to strengthen environmental impact assessments through process review

Basten Gokkon 24 Jan 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures

Bram Ebus 15 Jan 2018
A rebel's weapon and holster. The ELN mostly uses M16, AK47s and Ghalils, Noanamá, Chocó. Photo by Maximo Anderson/Mongabay.

Colombian pipeline bombed hours after end to ceasefire

Maximo Anderson 11 Jan 2018
A female ELN fighter practices morning drill, Noanamá, Chocó. Photo by Maximo Anderson/Mongabay.

Chocó at epicenter of Colombia’s social, environmental conflicts

Maximo Anderson 10 Jan 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Dec 2017

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Recognition of Mentawai tribes marks Indonesia’s latest piecemeal concession to indigenous groups

Basten Gokkon 15 Dec 2017

Latin America-Europe trade pact to include historic indigenous rights clause

Lucy EJ Woods 12 Dec 2017

Militarization and mining a dangerous mix in Venezuelan Amazon

Bram Ebus 7 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Dec 2017

Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains

Marlon Puertas 22 Nov 2017

RSPO tops among certification schemes, though all must improve: report

Mongabay.com 22 Nov 2017

Alliance of the Bear: Native groups stymie Trump, tar sands pipelines

Saul Elbein 16 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017

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