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Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)
For us, protecting our forests is like protecting our families. They are our homes. They give us life. For decades, we’ve ...
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Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them
The United Nations’ framework for reducing emissions by protecting forests in less-industrialized countries, known as REDD+, ...
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New survey puts human face on pollution caused by U.S. wood pellet mills
Forest biomass companies working in the U.S. Southeast in 2023 produced 9.54 million metric tons of wood pellets for export ...
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Indigenous advocates lament decade of failures by Indonesia’s Jokowi
When Joko Widodo took office in 2014 as the president of Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, he was seen as a ...
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Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon
Most of the Pan Amazonian population consists of immigrants or their descendants. They arrived over centuries, motivated by ...
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Dam terrorism: How mining companies in Brazil scare residents into relocating
Attention, attention! This is an emergency! Attention, attention! This is a real emergency situation involving a dam collapse ...
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Mining and logging threaten Bolivia’s newest protected area
Bolivia’s newest protected area, Gran Manupare Integrated Management Natural Area, sprawls across an area a tenth the size of ...