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Environmental costs, benefits and possibilities: Q&A with anthropologist Eben Kirksey

John Cannon 28 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2017

In response to pollution complaints, a coal plant in Indonesia offered soap and mops

Nuswantoro 1 Feb 2017

Pacitan villagers say coal plant reduced livelihoods, brought little new employment

Nuswantoro 30 Jan 2017

Before the flood: can the Bunong culture survive Cambodia’s Sesan II dam?

Luc Forsyth 27 Jan 2017

As construction begins on Java’s Batang coal plant, a divided community faces environmental problems

Lucy EJ Woods 24 Jan 2017

Fire on the Salween: Dams in conflict zones could threaten Myanmar’s fragile peace process

Demelza Stokes 1 Dec 2016

Peruvian Melka group palm oil production company withdraws from RSPO

Milton López Tarabochia 22 Nov 2016
Residents of Kiad in Panama’s indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé semi-autonomous region retur home after shopping in the nearby town of Tolé. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

Program targets food security concerns among Panama’s indigenous women

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 3 Oct 2016
A rainbow skink in coastal Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Colombia’s peace could pressure the environment

Henry Siqueira Barras 28 Sep 2016
Goejet Miranda crosses the part of the Tabasará River still flowing near his community of Kiad. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama begins “test-flooding” dam over indigenous protests

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 15 Sep 2016

After game-changing Dakota Access decision, a look at Sioux strategy

Saul Elbein 14 Sep 2016
Aerial photo shows the town of San Pablo de Amalí, the Dulcepamba River, and the Hidrotambo dam facility. Photo by Santiago Pastór

Dam opponents claim criminalization by Ecuadorian government

Martha Pskowski 9 Sep 2016

Oil pipeline sparks fierce opposition among American tribes and farmers

Saul Elbein 29 Aug 2016
Ricardo Miranda, one of the protest leaders and member of the M10 movement representing Ngäbe communities affected by the dam. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama revives stalled dam over strong indigenous opposition

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 25 Aug 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

‘Exploitation crisis’: Civil war fueling ‘sharp rise’ in poaching and trafficking of South Sudan’s wildlife

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Mar 2016

India has most cases of social and environmental conflict, according to environmental justice atlas

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016

‘Measured in human lives’: report finds EU and logging companies complicit in funding war

John Cannon 15 Sep 2015

Greenpeace re-engages with APP after response to activist’s killing

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 May 2015

Indonesia’s indigenous people still suffer human rights violations, says report

Loren Bell 18 Mar 2015

APP to end relationship with security contractor over villager’s killing

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2015

Police investigate villager’s murder in pulp and paper concession

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2015

Amazon tribe attacks oilfield in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2015

Embattled palm oil giant announces sustainability policy, but fails to win over critics

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Dec 2014

An end to unjust conservation? (commentary)

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 16 Nov 2014

Indonesian government’s concession policy prioritizes companies over forest communities

Robert S. Eshelman 3 Nov 2014

APP acknowledges historic land-grabbing in China, pledges reform

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Oct 2014

4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2014

Indonesia to verify ownership of 66M ha of disputed forest land

Loren Bell 4 Sep 2014

Indonesia to hear indigenous peoples’ grievances on land disputes

Loren Bell 22 Aug 2014

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