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November 10, 2020

Action by indigenous people has reduced deforestation in Brazil, says Greenpeace

As a reaction to several crime reports from the Karipuna People, police operations have been carried out, resulting in arrests and the confiscation of materials used for logging.
May 13, 2020

Global finance 'enabling hugely destructive logging project' in Papua New Guinea

A new investigation uncovers how global financiers are indirectly financing a damaging logging project in Papua New Guinea that is highly likely to be illegal.
April 5, 2020

Protection of indigenous territories 'a matter of life and death'

The protection of indigenous lands around the globe is critical to prevent thousands of tribal people dying from coronavirus, says Survival International.
November 4, 2019

Amazon Guardian killed and another shot as loggers attack in Brazil

An indigenous Amazon Guardian has been shot dead and another wounded after they were ambushed by loggers.
August 1, 2019

Report highlights criminalisation of land and environmental defenders

A Global Witness report highlights the use of terrorism laws and aggressive legal attacks by powerful elites to crush protest.
December 8, 2018

Corporate land grab exploits Papua New Guinea’s indigenous people

Private companies are illegally occupying land in Papua New Guinea for logging and palm oil plantations, according to a new report published by War on Want and Act NOW!, its partner in Papua New Guinea.
October 20, 2018

Report reveals destructive logging of Solomon Islands’ rainforests

The Solomon Islands’ tropical forests are being logged at nearly twenty times the sustainable rate.
August 16, 2018

Indigenous environmental defender killed 'as logging mafia targets tribe'

Survival International says Amazon tribes face catastrophe unless their land is protected.
June 27, 2018

Investigation reveals illegal logging by European company in DRC

Global Witness says a major European company is illegally logging across huge swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s rainforest.
May 23, 2018

'Guardians of the Amazon' seize illegal loggers to protect uncontacted tribe

Members of an Amazon tribe have seized a notorious logging gang, burned their truck, and expelled them from the jungle.