Land rights and extractives News

Australia crackdown on climate protesters grows amid fight against gas project

Study: Despite armed conflicts, Indigenous lands have better environment quality

Indigenous community fighting a mine in Palawan wins a milestone legal verdict

Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights

South Africa community members decry traditional leaders’ power amid mine plans

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital

What can solve growing conflicts between agricultural giants and communities in Cameroon?

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

Climate of fear persists among Nepal’s eco defenders as threats rise

No new mining operations on Yanomami land after raids and deaths

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area brings Indigenous communities into the fold

Dams and plantations upend livelihoods in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo River Valley

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Award-winning, Indigenous peace park dragged into fierce conflict in Myanmar

Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

Gold miner faces global protests as it rekindles a mine with a violent legacy

Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy

Scramble for clean energy metals confronted by activist calls to respect Indigenous rights

Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Will clean-energy minerals provoke a shift in how mining is done in Africa?

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

‘Brought down by gold’: Communities and nature suffer amid Nigerian bonanza

Yanomami crisis sparks action against illegal gold in the Amazon

Finland’s debate over Indigenous identity and rights turns ugly

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