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

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Feb 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

El Salvador women’s group takes a stand for river system targeted by development

Maxwell Radwin 6 Dec 2021

UNESCO reiterates road project’s dangers to Papua park as Indonesia doubles down

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Nov 2021

Indonesia’s flip-flop on zero-deforestation pledge portends greater forest loss

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Nov 2021

Loss of oil palm permits leaves Papuan villages uncertain and fearful

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Oct 2021

Build around the forest, not through it, study says of Sumatra trucking road

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Sep 2021

Plantations and roads strip away Papua’s forests. They’re just getting started

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Aug 2021

UNESCO calls for closure of road running through World Heritage park in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Aug 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jun 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021

Papua deforestation highlights eastward shift of Indonesia forest clearing

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Mar 2021

‘Hungry’ palm oil, pulpwood firms behind Indonesia land-grab spike: Report

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Feb 2021

Planned coal-trucking road threatens a forest haven for Sumatran frogs

Elviza Diana, Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Jan 2021

Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2021

Worker feared dead as landslide hits quake-prone dam in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

Road-paving project threatens a wildlife-rich reserve in Indonesia’s Papua

Asrida Elisabeth 11 Nov 2020

Deforestation threatens to wipe out a primate melting pot in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Oct 2020

We are failing to save the planet’s species, finds UN report

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2020

Indonesian case highlights potential for long-term harms of corruption

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

Dam that threatens orangutan habitat faces three-year delay

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jul 2020

Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure push

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Jun 2020

For Amazon indigenous facing COVID-19, distance to ICU beds poses dire threat

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2020

Tigers threatened by a vast network of planned roads across Asia

Liz Kimbrough 21 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Trendy, cheap, and dirty: Fashion is a top global polluter

Liz Kimbrough 23 Apr 2020

Low-cost satellite forest monitoring for all: Q&A with CLASlite creator Greg Asner

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2020

Indonesia road graft case lands Papua official, contractor in prison

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Apr 2020

Scientists call for independent review of dam project in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Mar 2020

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