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Political nepotism and elected clans in the Brazilian Amazon

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Latin America in 2024: politics, turmoil and hope

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Angkor Plywood, the ‘timber cartel’ shipping Cambodian forests internationally

In Ecuador, booming profits in small-scale gold mining reveal a tainted industry – investigation

Cambodian environment minister bans logging at tycoon’s Cardamoms hydropower project

US govt watchdog: Human rights still at risk in overseas conservation aid

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Expanding the colonization of the Brazilian Amazon through gold mining

Brazil’s wildcat mining is deeply rooted in its politics and thirst for minerals

History repeats as logging linked to Cambodian hydropower dam in Cardamoms

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Trial begins for Mother Nature Cambodia activists on conspiracy charge

Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Faced with an extreme future, one Colombian island struggles to rebuild

Suriname cancels controversial Mennonite pilot program, but bigger problems loom

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

What’s at stake for the environment in El Salvador’s upcoming election?

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Chinese gold miners ‘illegally’ tearing up Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

As Colombia’s coca economy crashes, new opportunities — and threats — arise

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Poisoned for decades by a Peruvian mine, communities say they feel forgotten

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