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Report warns of rising violence against environmental defenders in Mexico

Maxwell Radwin 21 Apr 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023

Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2023

Mexico’s Tren Maya hotel construction clears forest reserve without permits

Maxwell Radwin 29 Mar 2023
Forest in Peru.

Citizen-run conservation booms in South America, despite state neglect

Shanna Hanbury 28 Mar 2023

Paraguay weighs natural gas drilling in Médanos del Chaco National Park

Maxwell Radwin 23 Mar 2023
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Senegal herders demand return of grazing grounds controlled by U.S. firm

Elodie Toto 23 Mar 2023

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

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023

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

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2023

Is El Salvador preparing to reverse its landmark mining ban?

Maxwell Radwin 7 Feb 2023

Indigenous communities threatened as deforestation rises in Nicaraguan reserves

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2023

Indigenous people protect some of the Amazon’s last carbon sinks: Report

Maxwell Radwin 19 Jan 2023

In Ecuador, communities protecting a ‘terrestrial coral reef’ face a mining giant

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2023

Historic EU law against deforestation-linked imports ignores Brazil’s Cerrado

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2022
Heng Saphen and her daughter, Chan Lay Phiek

No justice for Indigenous community taking on a Cambodian rubber baron

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Dec 2022

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
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Avocado farming is threatening Colombia’s natural water factory

Emily Senkosky 1 Nov 2022
Sand is pumped into Boeung Tompoun as residents are forced out from the lake.

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

Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 7 Oct 2022
Maasai people.

Maasai villages lose important court case as wildlife game reserve trudges on

Laurel Sutherland 1 Oct 2022

Mapping of Indigenous lands ramps up in Indonesia — without official recognition

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Sep 2022

China-backed mine in Indonesia poses high risk, World Bank watchdog warns

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2022

Sumatra villagers protest iron mine allegedly operating despite stop order

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2022

Commodity kings Cargill, Bunge buying soy from stolen Indigenous land, report says

Maxwell Radwin 19 Aug 2022

‘The water is brown’: Community in Guyana rings the alarm over unsustainable mining near river

David Papannah, Laurel Sutherland 11 Aug 2022

Brazilian miners ramp up their invasion of Yanomami land in Venezuela

Maxwell Radwin 29 Jul 2022

Indonesia’s Sangihe islanders score legal victory over mining company

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Jun 2022

Legal defeats pile up for palm oil companies stripped of permits in Papua

Hans Nicholas Jong 31 May 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 May 2022
Iban dugout canoes on the Utik river in Sungai Utik's customary forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Indonesian government lagging independent effort to recognize Indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022

Court setback doesn’t sway Indonesian villagers fighting a mining firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2022

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