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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Ikea using illegally sourced wood from Ukraine, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Jun 2020
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Harrowing video shows indigenous Colombians fleeing gunfire

Ashoka Mukpo 28 May 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio

Ashoka Mukpo 19 May 2020

Dangerous levels of heat and humidity rising in frequency, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2020

Nicaragua failing to protect indigenous groups from land grabs: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 4 May 2020

As calls to shutter wildlife markets grow, China struggles with an industry worth billions

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Apr 2020
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Mar 2020
In 2015, the largest seizure of Peruvian timber was made in the Yacu Kallpa vessel. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

California lawmakers introduce legislation to fight tropical deforestation

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Feb 2020

Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining ‘alarming,’ experts say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Feb 2020
A forest elephant in Gabon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Liberia expands a key elephant park again, this time with help of locals

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Jan 2020

At the UN, losing the race against time to fight climate change

Ashoka Mukpo 24 Sep 2019
Silhouette of man standing by oil palm tree on a plantation still belonging to local residents in Malen Chiefdom in Pujehun district of Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 20 Sep 2019
Beira residents carrying belongings wade through flooded street in Beira.

When rich economies cut emissions, poor ones stand to benefit, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Aug 2019
An elephant in South Africa. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Did efforts to protect DRC’s elephants and bonobos leave a trail of abuses?

Ashoka Mukpo 12 Jun 2019

‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Jun 2019

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019
Western Chimpanzees at Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo by BigMikeSndTech, licensed under CC by 2.0

Western chimp numbers revised up to 53,000, but development threats loom

Ashoka Mukpo 1 May 2019

Experts warn: As G-20 tariffs drop, carbon emissions skyrocket

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Apr 2019
Kahuzi Biega National Park

Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Apr 2019
The landscape of Garamba National Park in DRC. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

EU customers warned over possible illegal timber from the Congo

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Mar 2019
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Liberia’s community forestry becoming a front for deforestation: Report

Ashoka Mukpo 23 Jan 2019
Processed palm oil in Liberia. Photo by Antoshananarivo via Wikimedia Commons.

In Liberia, a battered palm oil industry adjusts to new rules

Ashoka Mukpo 10 May 2017
The forest of Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Corrupt logging practices in Liberia could mar new era in community forestry

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Nov 2016

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