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tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Across the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in southwest Cambodia, communities have alleged abuse at the hands of the project developer. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Indigenous community calls out Cambodian REDD+ project as tensions simmer in the Cardamoms

Gerald Flynn 10 Mar 2025
wind turbines

Brazil communities accuse companies of ‘green grabbing’ for wind energy

Jonathan Moens, Thomas Bauer 7 Mar 2025

Brazil’s SUDAM scandal, a case of government-backed deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Mar 2025
deforestation Amazon

New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk

Carla Ruas 6 Mar 2025

In the drylands of northern Kenya, a ‘summer school’ for young researchers

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2025

Indonesian court blocks palm oil expansion, but leaves Indigenous land rights in limbo

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Mar 2025

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2025
Artwork of the ponds described in the paper. . These ponds were part od a sophisticated irrigation system that allowed for year-round corn growing.

Study unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2025

Indonesia signs agrarian reform commitment amid rising land equity woes

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Feb 2025

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

The culture of corruption across the Amazon Basin 

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Feb 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

Court decision to stop Tren Maya comes too late for ecosystems, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2025

Collective action, civil disobedience and blockades in the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 30 Jan 2025

In Honduras, communities race to establish reserve as La Mosquitia forest disappears

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2025

Blob-headed fish and four mammals among 27 newly described species in Peru’s Alto Mayo

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2025
Maasai herder in Morogoro, not far from Ruaha National Park. Image by Shengena Killel/IFRI via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

World Bank cancels $150m tourism project in Tanzania after abuse claims

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities rise up against prison projects in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown 22 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2025

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024

Indonesia risks carbon ‘backfire’ with massive deforestation for sugarcane

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Dec 2024

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2024
The Dayak Pitap community lives dependent on nature.

Indonesia’s Indigenous communities sidelined from conservation

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Dec 2024

Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024

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