Ashoka Mukpo

Ashoka Mukpo

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Ashoka Mukpo is a staff writer for Mongabay and freelance journalist with expertise in international development policy, human rights, and environmental issues. His work has been featured in Al-Jazeera, Vice News, and The Guardian, among others. Follow him on Twitter via @unkyoka.

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Fishing in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022

More than half of activists killed in 2021 were land, environment defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Apr 2022
Beninese Army soldiers taking part in live fire exercise. But by the end of 2021, a series of attacks on soldiers by militants raised the specter of a long-feared spillover of insurgent violence into northern Benin. Image by Jad Sleiman, U.S. Marine Corps via Wikimedia Commons.

In Benin, the line between conservation and counterinsurgency blurs

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Mar 2022
Rangers on a boat

New law would tie U.S. conservation funding to human rights protection

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Mar 2022
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2022

Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Feb 2022

Links between terrorism and the ivory trade overblown, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 1 Feb 2022

At a plantation in Central Africa, Big Oil tries to go net-zero

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Dec 2021
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021

Off West Africa’s coast, a sea of oil spills goes unreported

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Dec 2021

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Nov 2021
1/11/2021. Glasgow, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Joe Biden, the President of the United States of America to the COP26 summit. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

Behind grand declarations at COP26, a long track record of failure

Ashoka Mukpo 5 Nov 2021

What makes a ‘refugee’? It could be a life-or-death question in the climate crisis

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Oct 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021
Chimpanzee

In Guinea, an illegal $6b gold ‘bonanza’ threatens endangered chimpanzees

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Oct 2021

Advocates call for a new human rights-based approach to conservation

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Oct 2021

Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 30 Sep 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021

An environmental ‘catastrophe’ in Southern Africa lingers with few answers

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Sep 2021

Lockdowns didn’t stop 2020 being deadliest year yet for earth defenders

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Sep 2021

As tourists flood a Tanzanian park, the Maasai say they’re being pushed out

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Sep 2021

‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ for land rights, conservation launched at IUCN congress

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Sep 2021
Wildlife rangers in Cambodia, Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

As COP15 approaches, ’30 by 30’ becomes a conservation battleground

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2021
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Advocates raise alarm over proposal to reopen DRC forests to loggers

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Aug 2021

Bank risk policies failing to protect Amazon from oil-related threats: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

As U.K. eyes new environmental rules, some firms want to pump the brakes

Ashoka Mukpo 9 Jun 2021

Book Review: ‘Planet Palm’ reveals a world map stained by red oil

Ashoka Mukpo 31 May 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021
Azura Quilalea

Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Apr 2021

81 Indigenous leaders, environmental defenders slam BlackRock in open letter

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Mar 2021

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