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Forest Trackers

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Oceans

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Amazon Conservation

  • Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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)
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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
  • 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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