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Bill Clinton takes on Brazil’s megadams, James Cameron backs tribal groups

Jeremy Hance 28 Mar 2011

5 million hectares of Papua New Guinea forests handed to foreign corporations

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2011

Goodbye national parks: when ‘eternal’ protected areas come under attack

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2011

Coalition calls on Europe to label palm oil on food products

Jeremy Hance 15 Mar 2011

Fighting illegal logging in Indonesia by giving communities a stake in forest management

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Mar 2011

Report: corruption in Sarawak led to widespread deforestation, violations of indigenous rights

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2011

Foreign big agriculture threatens world’s second largest wildlife migration

Jeremy Hance 7 Mar 2011

World’s most controversial dam, Brazil’s Belo Monte, back on

Jeremy Hance 6 Mar 2011

Report: 90 oil spills in Peruvian Amazon over 3 years

Jeremy Hance 3 Mar 2011

Indigenous leaders take fight over Amazon dams to Europe

Jeremy Hance 2 Mar 2011

Judge suspends Brazil’s monster dam: contractor ‘imposing’ its interests

Jeremy Hance 27 Feb 2011

Sarawak government mocks its indigenous people

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2011

Chevron found guilty, ordered to pay $8.2 billion in epic oil contamination fight

Jeremy Hance 14 Feb 2011

Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Feb 2011

Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples’ rights to stagnate

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2011

Half a million people sign petition against Belo Monte, Brazilian mega-dam

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2011

Chief financier of Belo Monte dam ties social and environmental requirements to controversial project

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Report: indigenous people deserve right to refuse big companies

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2011

Sarawak’s last nomad: indigenous leader and activist, Along Sega, dies

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2011

Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru

Emily Kirkland 6 Jan 2011

United States to back U.N. indigenous rights declaration

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2010

Rainforest people sue logging company, Sarawak govt over planned deforestation

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2010

Prominent indigenous leader gets death threats in Guyana

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2010

Sarawak to cut down 1 million ha of rainforest for palm oil

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2010

Sarawak to double oil palm plantations by focusing on native customary forest

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2010

Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador’s big idea

Jeremy Hance 23 Nov 2010

50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives’ territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Nov 2010

Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam

Jeremy Hance 11 Nov 2010

Undergrads in the Amazon: American students witness beauty and crisis in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Jeremy Hance 28 Oct 2010

Foreign corporations devastating Papua New Guinea rainforests

Jeremy Hance 21 Oct 2010

NGO warns oil exploration in Peru may ‘decimate’ uncontacted tribes

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

The ultimate bike trip: the Amazon rainforest

Jeremy Hance 17 Oct 2010

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