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Forest Trackers

  • Satellite data show burst of deforestation in Myanmar rare earth mining hotspots
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Oceans

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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

  • What’s happening with the global treaty to trace critical minerals?
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  • 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
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  • Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities
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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)
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  • 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
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  • Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
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