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

Rowan Moore Gerety 15 Sep 2015

After crackdown, protesters to march again against Ecuador’s ‘extractivism’

Sandra Cuffe 14 Sep 2015

Harsh treatment for indigenous Botswanans ousted from Kalahari wildlife reserve

Michael Schwartz 21 Aug 2015

Indigenous miners, leaders under threat in Colombia following killing

Sandra Cuffe 10 Aug 2015

With assault rifles and legal hijinks, Harper’s government takes on the Canadian environment

Peter Mellgard 27 Jul 2015

Sea turtle conservationists attacked in Costa Rica

Mike Gaworecki 16 Jul 2015

Militarization and murders stifle anti-mining movement in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Jul 2015

Damming Dissent: Community leaders behind bars in Guatemala after opposing hydro projects

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jul 2015

Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects

Jennifer Hattam 22 Jun 2015

‘Green’ hydropower dam fuels charges of gross human rights violations

Shreya Dasgupta 27 May 2015

Palm oil activist murdered in Jakarta

Mongabay.com 23 May 2015

Mining and Energy Contracts under Investigation as Corruption Scandals Rock Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 22 May 2015

Red tape or repression? NGOs fight for a place in the new Bolivia they helped Evo Morales create

Alexandra Ellerbeck 22 May 2015

Nickel Mine, Lead Bullets: Maya Q’eqchi’ seek justice in Guatemala and Canada

Sandra Cuffe 19 May 2015

Kenya’s Karura Forest, symbol of GreenBelt Movement, suffering death by 1,000 cuts

Protus Onyango 29 Apr 2015

Killings of environmental activists jumped by 20 percent last year

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2015

Anti-mining activist shot dead in Guatemala

Jeremy Hance 13 Apr 2015

Kenya crackdown on terrorism threatens NGOs, wildlife, media

Protus Onyango 3 Apr 2015

Police investigate villager’s murder in pulp and paper concession

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2015

Mining activist released after being charged with terrorism, rebellion in Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 11 Feb 2015

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

4 Ashaninka tribesmen killed by loggers in Peru

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 15 May 2014

Chinese luxury furniture linked to murder, near extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 May 2014

Nearly a thousand environmental activists murdered since 2002

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2014

Costa Rican environmentalist pays ultimate price for his dedication to sea turtles

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2013

Landowner who allegedly ordered Amazon murders acquitted

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Killings over land continues in the Amazon

David Hill 4 Apr 2013

Indigenous protester killed by masked assailants in Panama over UN-condemned dam

Robin Oisín Llewellyn 25 Mar 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

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