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Youth wins climate case against U.S. state of Montana in first-of-its-kind legal ruling

Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Palm oil company in Ecuador operates illegally on ancestral land, community says

Landfill in Colombia continues to pollute protected wetlands despite court-ordered clean-up

Warfare for wildlife: Q&A with Rosaleen Duffy

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can — and should — go directly to IPLCs

Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

In first for Indonesia, government recognizes Indigenous Papuans’ ancestral forests

Cambodia’s elites swallow up Phnom Penh’s lakes, leaving the poor marooned

Cambodian mega dam’s resurrection on the Mekong ‘the beginning of the end’

Mining company destroys Indigenous cemetery during expansion in Honduras

Report clears Kenyan conservancy of community abuse, but advocates cry foul

U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project

New law would tie U.S. conservation funding to human rights protection

Crackdown on villagers highlights heavy hand of Indonesia’s ‘strategic’ projects

In Indonesia, a ‘devious’ policy silences opposition to mining, activists say

Raid against Sumatran official uncovers use of slave labor on oil palm farm

What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

As tourists flood a Tanzanian park, the Maasai say they’re being pushed out

Acquittal of Indonesian villagers protesting pollution marks rare win against SLAPP

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

Land inequality is worsening and fueling other social ills, report says

Report finds litany of labor abuses on RSPO-certified oil palm plantations

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