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Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Indigenous hunters vital to robust food webs in Australia

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Wildlife rangers in DRC park report waning motivation, job satisfaction

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Karen indigenous communities in Myanmar have officially launched the Salween Peace Park

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

‘Punished’: Bolivian communities opposed to highway cry foul over neglect

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

The ongoing trade in conflict timber (commentary)

Politics and peace: The fate of Colombia’s forests (commentary)

Scientists, conservationists: Give Nobel Peace Prize to Jane Goodall

Indonesia’s land swap program puts communities, companies in a bind

On an island in the sun, coal power is king over abundant solar

In Sumatra, villagers blame a coal mine for cracks in their houses, and their community

When palm oil meets politics, Indonesian farmers pay the price

Report blames coal-fired plant in Bali for pollution, loss of livelihoods

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

Study puts a figure to hidden cost of community-company conflict in palm oil industry

Pepsi cuts off Indonesian palm oil supplier over labor, sustainability concerns

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

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

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

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

Indonesia to strengthen environmental impact assessments through process review

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

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

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

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

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

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

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