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Ouk Mao showed reporters timber cut from the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest by loggers working for Lin Vatey. Image by Nehru Pry / Mongabay

Reporter who revealed deforestation in Cambodia now charged with deforestation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 27 Sep 2024

The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 15 Aug 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 26 Jul 2024

Garifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling

Aimee Gabay 17 Jul 2024

China-backed mine in Sumatran seismic hotspot rings safety alarms

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Jun 2024

Deforestation continues in Kenya’s largest water capturing forest, satellites show

Liz Kimbrough 7 Nov 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Aug 2022

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

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Jun 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Feb 2022

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

Activists take Indonesia’s mining law to court, but don’t expect much

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2021
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Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

Indonesian parliament to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with Indigenous group

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jul 2020

Groups demand financial, human rights probes into palm conglomerate Korindo

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jul 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmers for ‘stealing’ from land they claim

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Jun 2020

Indonesian court jails indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Jun 2020

Calls for end to business with paper giant APP over Sumatra land disputes

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2020

Journo arrested for reporting on palm oil tycoon’s alleged land grab

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 May 2020

Conflict between Indonesian villagers, pulpwood firm flares up over crop-killing drone

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

Indonesia’s push to become a tourism paradise sidelines land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Jan 2020

Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind them

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2019

In Indonesia, a paper giant shuffles a litany of land conflicts

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Apr 2019

Activists say Indonesia dragging its heels on indigenous rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Sep 2018
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Indonesia’s ‘one-map’ database blasted for excluding indigenous lands

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Aug 2018

Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Lucy EJ Woods 4 Jul 2018

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