David Hill

Some of the world’s most biodiverse areas facing oil/gas threat from Peru parks bill

Protected areas in the Amazon particularly at risk from controversial proposal by Congressman

Jul 17 • 

David Hill

Most impacted by Bolivia’s worst ever fires? Indigenous land and protected areas

NGO report concludes over 12.5 million hectares of South American country burned last year

Jul 11 • 

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June 2025

FSC finally admits it: ‘Concession overlaps areas inhabited by indigenous people’

Timber certifier says controversial logging concession in Peru's Amazon overlaps indigenous land

Jun 12 • 

David Hill

May 2025

Tropical forests keep falling but the UK keeps stalling - still no legislation in force

Latest figures say almost 7 million hectares were cleared last year - the worst on record

May 30 • 

David Hill

How US and EU firms are complicit in the illegal logging of Colombia’s rainforests

New report by US NGO links timber trade to debt slavery and armed conflict

May 28 • 

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Please don’t anyone try and visit the Amazon’s ‘mysterious sacred pyramid’!

Media reports fail to mention that "El Cono" is in a strictly protected part of remote Peru

May 21 • 

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‘There are various things we want the UK government to do on deforestation’

Interview with Brazilian indigenous leader Dinamam Tuxá during his visit to London

May 16 • 

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How global demand for mahogany and cumaru risks lives in remote Amazon

Concession currently suspended by Forest Stewardship Council has been a major "red gold" extractor

May 12 • 

David Hill

How US and EU firms are complicit in the ‘legal-but-illegal’ logging of the Amazon

New report by Environmental Investigation Agency exposes timber laundering in Brazil

May 2 • 

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April 2025

‘We wanted to see how we could help the Bushmen get title to their land’

Interview with barrister Gordon Bennett about his recent return to the Kalahari Desert in Botswana

Apr 23 • 

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A sugary drink isn’t the oddest thing anyone has ever left an ‘uncontacted’ tribe

US citizen's arrest in India is a reminder of other efforts being made to contact indigenous people in "isolation"

Apr 17 • 

David Hill

March 2025

55,000+ people urge UK to enact law to curb global deforestation footprint

Petition requests government to urgently take action on “forest-risk commodities”

Mar 31 • 

David Hill