Andy Lehren

Investigations Editor

About

Andy Lehren is Mongabay’s investigations editor. He is a former investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times and NBC News, concentrating on national and international projects. He is a former Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network fellow. Recently he worked for International Center For Journalists, where he oversaw a global environmental collaboration, and for Inside Climate News.

He is on the Board of Directors for Investigative Reporters & Editors, and teaches investigative reporting at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Honors include a Polk, Peabody, Emmys, multiple IRE, Columbia duPont, Murrow and Overseas Press Club awards. He was part of a Pulitzer-winning investigation and also part of a Pulitzer finalist investigation. His stories have led to companies to pay millions in fines and in compensation for wrongdoing. They have led to arrests and changes in laws and regulations.

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18 stories

A deadly cross over: In South Africa, rabies moves from land animals to seals

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer

Leaked document shows EU closer to dropping leather from anti-deforestation law

Can globally essential mangroves bounce back from deforestation? New study gives hope

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

Accountability advocates ‘shocked’ as Canadian government eliminates watchdog agency

Canada’s watchdog post vacant as overseas mining complaints mount

How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

European Commission linked leather to deforestation, then ignored it

EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying

Brazil FOIA confirms Lula & Macron talked before key CITES vote on endangered tree

Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines

Mennonites from Belize spark deforestation fears with new settlement plans in Suriname

Unwrapping deforestation: Your chocolate Easter bunny may harm the environment

China’s deep-sea mining fleet may also track US submarines

Brazil wanted more protections for its endangered national tree. Then France called

FSC to vote on new traceability rules amid fraud allegations

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