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Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19

Indigenous group wins unprecedented right of reply to Bolsonaro’s racist invective

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

A third of Peru’s La Pampa forest cleared for illegal mining ponds, study finds

Housing project puts São Paulo’s remaining Atlantic Forest at risk

Peru uncovers organized crime network laundering illegally mined gold

Wealth fund divests from Peruvian firm after indigenous group complaint

China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

Smaller fragments of forest at risk of greater levels of deforestation, study finds

Vietnam’s new conservation plan prioritizes trees and people. Emissions? Not so much

Record-high global tree cover loss driven by agriculture

Where the logging ends in Indonesian Borneo, the forest clearing begins

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation

Coronavirus outbreak hits Vietnam’s timber sector

Brazilian meat giant JBS expands its reach in China

For Ecuador, a litany of environmental challenges awaits in 2020

Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining ‘alarming,’ experts say

For Ecuador’s eco agenda, 2019 was a year of setbacks and pushbacks

Despite foreign aid, Colombia struggles to rein in Amazon deforestation

Indonesian environment ministry ends WWF partnership amid public spat

For Colombia, 2019 was a year of environmental discontent

Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode, study finds

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Subsistence farming topples forests near commercial operations in Congo

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Rangers in Indonesia’s Aceh to get guns as officials flex on violators

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Conservationists in peril: Scientists, campaigners risk their lives for their work

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