12 July 2017
Environmental groups have been pressing the government to stop the trade, citing its serious impact on coastal ecosystems and surrounding land
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia has banned all sand exports on environmental grounds, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Wednesday, officially
9 July 2017
Plans to reduce forest protections linked to attacks on inspectors and campaigners, environmental groups said after two land rights activists murdered
Environmental campaigners have blamed the Brazilian government and Congress for intensifying violence in the lawless Amazon after two land
7 July 2017
A Canadian firm lost its license for the mining project in southeastern Peru but indigenous leaders now face charges including 'aggravated extortion'
LONDON, July 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of indigenous leaders is due to go on trial in Peru on Thursday for participating in a
5 July 2017
Joint FAO-Arab League event hears climate change poses serious risk to water availability
4 July 2017, Rome - Arab states must continue to seek innovations to overcome water scarcity in the face of climate change, said UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General José Graziano da Silva
5 July 2017
Developing countries have been promised $100bn per year by 2020, with no sign of it arriving some are taking matters into their own hands
Developing countries, tired of waiting for help from rich countries to arrive and already facing mounting climate crises, are starting their own funds to deal
19 June 2017
The Amazon basin faces irreversible environmental disturbance on an enormous scale due to hydroelectric dam development. Hundreds of existing and planned dams in both the Amazonian lowlands and the Andean headwaters are already impacting, and will continue affecting, waterways, floodplains and the
16 June 2017
On June 2, Guatemalan police and military carried out the eviction of Q’eqchi Maya residents of the community of Laguna Larga in the Laguna de Tigre region of the country. Days later, the refugees from the eviction arrived in the Mexican state of Campeche.
12 June 2017
On December 22, 2016, President Michel Temer revised a law that specifically regularizes urban and rural land owned by the federal government, notably eliminating requirements for upgrading infrastructure on those lands.
9 June 2017
Colombia is home to a swathe of rainforest roughly the size of Germany and England combined.
CAQUETA, Colombia, June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Seen from the air, muddy rivers snake through rolling forested hills stretching to the horizon in Colombia's southern province of Caqueta that for
7 June 2017
Guarani-Kaiowá leader Ladio Veron is touring Europe seeking international support to end attacks and killings of indigenous people, land theft and environmental harm in Brazil.
2 June 2017
On 31 May 2017, The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) thanks to the support of the Nando Peretti Foundation and along with fellow hosts Mr Xabier Benito Ziluaga MEP (GUE/NGL), Mr Urmas Paet MEP (ALDE), Mr Francisco Assis MEP (S&D), Mr Ignazio Corrao MEP (EFDD), Pier Antonio
30 May 2017
National laws and regulations in low- and middle-income countries consistently fail to protect the land rights of women living in indigenous and rural communities, making them ill-prepared to reach the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals or the Paris Agreement on climate change, a new