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Historical analysis: The Amazon’s mineral wealth — curse or blessing?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 Dec 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Gender-based violence shakes communities in the wake of forest loss

John Cannon 14 May 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

Flooding devastates Ecuador’s indigenous communities in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 May 2020

New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe

John Cannon 29 Apr 2020

Gold mining threatens indigenous forests in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 8 Apr 2020

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

John Cannon 19 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Mortgaging the future: Report details risks of resource-backed loans

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2020

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

Altered forests threaten sustainability of subsistence hunting

Mongabay.com 29 May 2019

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

From conflict to communities: Forests in Liberia

John Cannon 10 Mar 2017

Papua New Guinea’s oil and gas boom – blessing or curse?

David Hutt 22 Dec 2016

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Featured video: new documentary puts human face on logging in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2011

Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film documents how industrial logging destroys lives

Jeremy Hance 29 Aug 2011

Scientists urge Papua New Guinea to declare moratorium on massive forest clearing

Jeremy Hance 19 Apr 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

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