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A Health Check-up for Our Environment - Ignored at Our Own Risk
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is a much-needed health check up for our environment. It tells us what is happening to the Chinese river dolphin and other building blocks of life on Earth. We can't survive without the rich...
Thai Mekong Communities Excluded from Don Sahong Dam Consultations in Thailand
The Thai National Mekong Committee held their first consultation on the Don Sahong Dam today in Ubon Ratchathani. Notably Mekong communities were not invited to take part, nor were they...
Theun–Hinboun Power Company’s Monitoring System Still Shrouded in Secrecy
In May 2014, the General Manager of the Theun - Hinboun Power Company (THPC), Mr. Robert Allen, was appointed as chair of the Lao Hydropower Developers’ Working Group. The Working Group,...
Film: Fiji’s River of Eden
Last spring, award-winning filmmaker and National Geographic Freshwater Hero, Pete McBride, set out to explore one of the only protected rivers in the South Pacific—Fiji’s Upper Navua....
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Opponents of Planned Colombian Dams Take Heart From OAS Report
Opponents of a Chinese plan to construct several dams along Colombia's longest river said they were encouraged by an international human rights panel's report Friday that noted "tension" be...
PR – Defying Brazilian Government, Indigenous Group Demarcates Amazonian Territory
Brasilia: In response to the Rousseff government’s failure to recognize indigenous rights to lands scheduled for flooding by two megadam projects, the Munduruku people have taken the...
PR – Human Rights Groups Demand Police Stop Intimidating Rightful Landowners of Baram
Malaysian and international human rights organizations are uniting to publicly denounce the actions taken by police to intimidate indigenous peoples in Sarawak at the proposed site of the...
PR – Mega First Corporation Put On Notice
A coalition of six local, regional and international NGOs filed a complaint today with SUHAKAM, the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, requesting investigation of the economic and social...
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