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Big compromise reached on Canada’s Boreal by environmental groups and forestry industry

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2010

Taking back the rainforest: Indians in Colombia govern 100,000 square miles of territory

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 May 2010

Activists lock themselves in Cargill headquarters as new report alleges illegal deforestation

Jeremy Hance 5 May 2010

Oil company to cut 454 kilometers of seismic lines in uncontacted tribe territory

Jeremy Hance 21 Apr 2010

Off and on again: Belo Monte dam goes forward, protests planned

Jeremy Hance 20 Apr 2010

New report alleges Sarawak government, police, and loggers “act in collusion to harass and intimidate indigenous communities”

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2010

Brazil suspends Amazon dam project targeted by Avatar director

Mongabay.com 15 Apr 2010

$6B forest conservation plan lacking in transparency, indigenous participation, say activists

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2010

Film Director James Cameron’s Next Film on the Amazon

Nikolas Kozloff 5 Apr 2010

James Cameron, in real life, fights to save indigenous groups from massive dam construction in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 1 Apr 2010

Malaysian palm oil grower loses case over damages to rainforest community

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2010

Spanish oil company develops own rules for contacting uncontacted Amazon tribes

David Hill Of Survival International 26 Mar 2010

Masyarakat hutan hujan memiliki hak karbon untuk lahan yang ada

Ditulis Oleh Rhett A. Butler 2 Mar 2010

Under siege: oil and gas concessions cover 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 16 Feb 2010

Canada creates massive new park in the boreal

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2010

Asia’s biggest logging company accused of bribery, violence in Papua New Guinea

Jeremy Hance 8 Feb 2010

Church of England drops mining company Vedanta due to indigenous rights concerns

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2010

Environmentalists and indigenous groups decry approval of massive dam in Amazon

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2010

Real-life Avatar: court blocks destruction of indigenous community in Borneo

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jan 2010

Indigenous in Borneo win “landmark” court ruling over land rights

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2010

Forest-bulldozing ranchers win ‘Greenwashing Award’ for claiming they are creating a ‘nature reserve’

Jeremy Hance 20 Jan 2010

Malaysian police destroy homes in Borneo indigenous community

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2010

Dams a ‘monument of corruption’: Baru Bian, new leader of Sarawak’s People’s Justice Party

Jeremy Hance 12 Jan 2010

Uncontacted natives confirmed in Brazil

Jeremy Hance 10 Jan 2010

The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

Jeremy Hance 22 Dec 2009

Cattle company bulldozing UNESCO site, threatening uncontacted natives

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Malaysian land minister attacks credibility of young indigenous rape victims

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2009

Has Canada become the new climate villain (yes, that’s right, Canada)?

Jeremy Hance 2 Dec 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

Julie Fischer Of Fauna 27 Nov 2009

Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2009

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