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Brazil miner sees Indigenous land as ripe for exploration if protections expire

As their land and water turns saline, Kenyan communities take on salt firms

Violence persists in Amazon region where Pereira and Phillips were killed

Organized crime drives violence and deforestation in the Amazon, study shows

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence

Maasai protesters shot, beaten as Tanzania moves forward with wildlife game reserve

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Razing of Indigenous hamlet highlights Nepal’s conservation challenge

More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

DRC’s cacao boom leaves a bitter aftertaste for Congo Basin forest

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Allegations of displacement, violence beleaguer Kenyan conservancy NGO

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Legal challenge to South Africa mine expansion looks to set new landmark

Struggle endures for Philippine community pitted against gold miner

In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

Bolsonaro evades genocide blame amid Indigenous deaths by invaders, COVID-19

For Brazil’s persecuted Krenak people, justice arrives half a century later

Labor rights violations at Brazil coffee farm linked to Starbucks, Nespresso

Rich countries may be buying illegal gold that’s driving Amazon destruction

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Indigenous Brazilians fear surge in violence as ‘land-grab bill’ nears passage

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