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On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
Indigenous women in Indonesian Borneo often have to combine domestic responsibilities with food cultivation, known as behuma ...
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Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report
Panama is still trying to understand the extent of the violence that took place during the massive, nationwide protests last ...
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Will a billionaire bankroll biodiversity? CBD Decision 15/9 as potential ‘goldmine’ (commentary)
Economic metaphors can be ironic, unexpectedly so. The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the 1992 UN Convention on ...
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Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela
Each morning, as Luis Arrieta heads out to begin work on his shade-grown coffee farm, vindication comes in the form of ...
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Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network. Click here to listen to an audio version ...
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Bangladesh island’s switch from solar power to fossil fuels threatens birds
Almost all 2,500 households — mostly fisher folks — on Nijhum Dwip, a national park that has the second-largest mangrove ...
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Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’
When the machines and men came to bury toxic sludge on a property near her house in the Mexican state of Tabasco, Lorenza ...
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Mexico Indigenous community makes strides to land rights, but obstacles remain
The Rarámuri Indigenous people of Bosques de San Elías Repechique have traveled a long road to defend their community ...
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Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal plant
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
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Amid ravaging wildfires in Venezuela, experts cite institutional collapse
In early March, a series of wildfires ravaged the savannas of Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the ...
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Indonesia civil society groups raise concerns over proposed Borneo nuclear reactor
Civil society organizations in Indonesia staged protests in late April to raise awareness of a planned nuclear plant near ...
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Latest palm oil deforester in Indonesia may also be operating illegally
The largest case of deforestation for industrial palm oil in Indonesia is happening within a concession on a tiny island off ...