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BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Sue Branford 9 Mar 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

Aceh citizens ask governor to keep bulldozers out of a crucial rainforest

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Feb 2016

Munduruku building new alliances to fight Tapajós Basin dams in Amazon

Guilherme Rosa from Repórter Brasil, Benjamin Blocksom translator 8 Feb 2016

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

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Feb 2016

Top Vatican official: climate change action is a “moral imperative”

Justin Catanoso 1 Feb 2016

Jokowi asked to push indigenous rights through reluctant parliament

Fidelis E. Satriastanti 29 Jan 2016

Guatemalan activist murdered after court suspends palm oil company operations

Sandra Cuffe 30 Sep 2015

Indian Court protects Greenpeace against government crackdown again

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Sep 2015

Activist arrested while illegal loggers chop away at Madagascar’s forests

Rowan Moore Gerety 15 Sep 2015

Poor enticed by gold and better life, leave behind environmental ruin

Saul Elbein 7 Aug 2015

An end to unjust conservation? (commentary)

Harry Jonas, Dilys Roe 16 Nov 2014

Villagers occupy govt office in Indonesia Borneo in protest against palm oil land grab

Diana Parker 18 Sep 2013

Indigenous religious leader murdered in front of his tribe in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 28 Nov 2011

Civilization shifting: a new leaderless era

Ryan King 15 Nov 2011

Losing our pigs and our ancestors: threats to the livelihoods and environment of Papua New Guinea

Vijay Kolinjivadi 27 Oct 2011

Asia Pulp & Paper to undertake human rights audit

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2011

Bloody June: fifth rural activist assassinated in Brazil this month

Karimeh Moukaddem 16 Jun 2011

Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil

Karimeh Moukaddem 10 Jun 2011

Assassinations of environmentalists continue in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation rises

Mongabay.com 28 May 2011

Photo: Indigenous leaders form giant human banner to protest Amazon destruction

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2009

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