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Brazilian tribes demarcate territory in bid to block dams

Scientific association calls on Nicaragua to scrap its Gran Canal

Top scientists raise concerns over commercial logging on Woodlark Island

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Extinction island? Plans to log half an island could endanger over 40 species

The cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

The Gran Canal: will Nicaragua’s big bet create prosperity or environmental ruin?

Brazil releases video showing first contact with rainforest tribe

Peru slashes environmental protections to attract more mining and fossil fuel investment

Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest

After throwing out referendum, Ecuador approves oil drilling in Yasuni’s embattled heart

53 indigenous activists on trial for police-protester massacre in Peru

Papua New Guinea pledges to cancel massive land grabs by timber companies

Loggers plan to clear 20 percent of tropical island paradise

Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry

Small monkeys take over when big primates have been hunted out in the Amazon

Ecuador will have referendum on fate of Yasuni after activists collect over 700,000 signatures

Featured video: celebrities speak out for Yasuni

Ten years after Lost Africa: a retrospective on indigenous issues

Oil or rainforest: new website highlights the plight of Yasuni National Park

Featured video: indigenous tribe faces loggers, ranchers, and murder in bid to save their forests

New web tool aims to help indigenous groups protect forests and navigate REDD+

Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ protect their culture and traditional wisdom

Brazil begins evicting illegal settlers from hugely-imperiled indigenous reserve

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

Ecuador’s government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle

Murum dam blockaders may be suffering human rights violations warns NGOs

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Samburu’s lions: how the big cats could make a comeback in Kenya

Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares of rainforest

Japanese firms buying illegal timber from Malaysia’s endangered rainforests

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