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As Indonesia gears up for elections, activists brace for an environmental sell-off

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Feb 2018

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 13 Feb 2018
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Deforestation wanes in Indonesia’s Aceh and Leuser Ecosystem, but threats remain, NGO says

Hans Nicholas Jong, Junaidi Hanafiah 5 Feb 2018

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

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges need help, support to meet targets, new study finds

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018
Buttress roots of a rainforest tree in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Is a plantation a forest? Indonesia says yes, as it touts a drop in deforestation

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 Jan 2018

New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

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

Bram Ebus 25 Jan 2018

Biofuel boost threatens even greater deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia: Study

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jan 2018

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

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Outrage and conspiracy claims as Indonesia, Malaysia react to EU ban on palm oil in biofuels

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Jan 2018

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

Mongabay.com 19 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

Indonesian parliament pushes for passage of palm oil legislation this year

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jan 2018

Indonesia’s Aceh extends moratorium on new mining sites

Junaidi Hanafiah 12 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

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

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jan 2018

Study on economic loss from Indonesia’s peat policies criticized

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

Indonesia in 2017: A fighting chance for peat protection, but an infrastructure beatdown for indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Jan 2018

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2018

In early push into Papua, palm oil firms set stage for massive forest plunder

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2018

Indonesia unveils plan to halve forest fires by 2019

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Dec 2017

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 27 Dec 2017

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

Palm oil’s ecological footprint extends to distant forests, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Dec 2017

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Claire Salisbury 20 Dec 2017

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

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

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Locals fear for their lives over planned dam in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Junaidi Hanafiah 14 Dec 2017

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