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Forest Trackers

  • Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
  • Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon
  • 15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities
  • Satellite data show bursts of deforestation continue in Indonesian national park
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Oceans

  • Talks to reduce funding for overfishing remain stalled at WTO meeting
  • New strategy to reverse Kenya’s shark decline tries to bring fishers on board
  • Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil
  • Indigenous concerns surface as U.S. agency considers seabed mining in Alaskan waters
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Amazon Conservation

  • Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project
  • ‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead
  • New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches
  • Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns
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Land rights and extractives

  • As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum
  • What’s happening with the global treaty to trace critical minerals?
  • In the race for DRC’s critical minerals, community forests are on the frontline
  • Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)
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Endangered Environmentalists

  • José Albino Cañas Ramírez, a defender of Indigenous territories, aged 44
  • A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil
  • Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
  • Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger
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Indonesia's Forest Guardians

  • On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
  • Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
  • In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
  • Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
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Conservation Effectiveness

  • How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
  • How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)
  • Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?
  • Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it
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Southeast Asian infrastructure

  • Flores’ geothermal ambitions collide with justice, culture & local resistance
  • An ‘ocean grab’ for a property megaproject leaves Jakarta fishers grounded
  • Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
  • Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
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