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Activists warn of industrial palm oil expansion in Congo rainforest

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Controversial palm oil project concession in Cameroon is 89 percent ‘dense natural forest’

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2013

Investors beware: global land grabbing ends in ‘financial damage’ and human rights violations

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2013

Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil

Jeremy Hance 26 Nov 2012

Environmental journalist investigating illegal logging murdered in Cambodia

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2012

Cambodia’s largest lowland rainforest spared from new land concessions

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

‘National scandal:’ foreign companies stripped Papua New Guinea of community-owned forests

Jeremy Hance 30 Jul 2012

Flouting moratorium, Cambodia approves four land concessions in protected areas

Jeremy Hance 27 Jun 2012

Agricultural area larger than Texas has been ‘land-grabbed’

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2012

Over 700 people killed defending forest and land rights in past ten years

Jeremy Hance 19 Jun 2012

Indigenous rights rising in tropical forests, but big gaps remain

Jeremy Hance 31 May 2012

Indigenous group paid $0.65/ha for forest worth $5,000/ha in Indonesia

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2012

Cambodia suspends economic land concessions

Jeremy Hance 7 May 2012

Police hired by loggers in Papua New Guinea lock locals in shipping containers

Jeremy Hance 16 Apr 2012

‘Gold’ standard for REDD forest conservation project in Colombia’s Choco

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2012

5 shot in conflict over oil palm plantation in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2012

Indonesia to require loggers prove their concessions free of overlapping claims

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2012

Group releases photos of Borneo rainforest to be converted for palm plantations

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2012

Biofuel aspirations spur ‘land grabs’ that hurt the poor, says report

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2011

Carbon piracy, lack of recognition of indigenous rights undermining REDD in Peru, alleges report

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2011

Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil

Karimeh Moukaddem 10 Jun 2011

Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corps

Mongabay.com 6 May 2011

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

Rhett A. Butler 9 Feb 2011

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

Mongabay.com 9 Feb 2011

Could industrial interests ruin payments for environmental services?

Jeremy Hance 27 Sep 2010

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

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2010

Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

Mongabay.com 24 Nov 2009

Peru revokes decrees that sparked Amazon Indian uprising

Rhett A. Butler 19 Jun 2009

Despite violent protests and coup, Daewoo continues to hold cropland in Madagascar

Mongabay.com 19 Jun 2009

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