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Hope blooms for an ‘extinct’ Sri Lankan tree that reemerged under threat

Malaka Rodrigo 18 Mar 2021

JBS, other Brazil meatpackers linked to devastating Pantanal fires, Greenpeace says

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Mar 2021

Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands

Hyury Potter, Fábio Bispo 17 Mar 2021

Freight train project that railroads Indigenous rights still on track

Jennifer Ann Thomas 16 Mar 2021

Déjà vu as palm oil industry brings deforestation, pollution to Amazon

Karla Mendes 12 Mar 2021

Developing nations pay for rich countries’ hunger for healthy, exotic food

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Mar 2021

Ecuador court orders end to gas flaring by oil industry in Amazon

Antonio José Paz Cardona 9 Mar 2021

Amazon’s Belo Monte dam cuts Xingu River flow 85%; a crime, Indigenous say

Tiffany Higgins 8 Mar 2021
Sahana Ghosh quote

Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2021

Persistence of slave labor exposes lawlessness of Amazon gold mines

Maurício Angelo 4 Mar 2021

Facebook enabling Amazon land grabbing, deforestation, finds investigation

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 3 Mar 2021

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2021

Sri Lanka replanting bid begins after minister is held liable for deforestation

Malaka Rodrigo 28 Feb 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Feb 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Feb 2021

Backing the stewards of biocultural diversity: Q&A with Indigenous rights leader Carla Fredericks

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2021
A Panamanian golden toad. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Indigenous community wins recognition of its land rights in Panama

John Cannon 17 Feb 2021
Greenpeace volunteers create a burnt smoldering rainforest with a lifelike animatronic orangutan at the headquarters of Oreo cookies near Uxbridge, UK as part of a campaign to pressure Wilmar, which is a palm oil supplier to Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies. Photo © Chris J Ratcliffe / Greenpeace

‘A better world is within reach’: Q&A with Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Feb 2021

‘What’s at stake is the life of every being’: Saving the Brazilian Cerrado

Peter Yeung 11 Feb 2021

Are biomass and hydropower ‘false’ climate solutions?

Mike Gaworecki 10 Feb 2021

Brazil flower-gatherers win acclaim: ‘Efficient, long-lasting, resilient’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 8 Feb 2021

Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Feb 2021

Cambodian environmental activists reportedly arrested

Mongabay 5 Feb 2021

The climate crisis needs feminism (commentary)

Belguun Bat-Erdene 1 Feb 2021

Brazil guts agencies, ‘sabotaging environmental protection’ in Amazon: Report

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 1 Feb 2021

Seven financial firms key to rooting out deforestation, report finds

John Cannon 29 Jan 2021

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Rivonala Razafison 29 Jan 2021

Indonesia remembers ‘irreplaceable’ Gunawan Wiradi, gentle giant of the countryside

Indra Nugraha 26 Jan 2021
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Timber organization’s backing ‘one step’ toward ‘peace park’ in Borneo

John Cannon 26 Jan 2021

Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining

Sam Cowie 22 Jan 2021

In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 21 Jan 2021

Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 20 Jan 2021

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