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Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging

Frederick Gillingham 20 Jan 2021
The Durmitor Mountains and the Tara River Canyon in Montenegro. Image by Pudelek (Marcin Szala) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture

John Cannon 18 Jan 2021

‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2021

Award-winning Thai community continues the fight to save its wetland forest

Carolyn Cowan 11 Jan 2021
Blue Anole from Colombia. Photo by Thomas Marent

For Latin America’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield

Genevieve Glatsky 7 Jan 2021
A humpback whale off the coast of the northeastern U.S. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

11 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2020

John Cannon 30 Dec 2020

In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Dec 2020
Mendouga Rita plants Gnetum in the village of Minwoho. Lekié, Center Region, Cameroon. Photo by Ollivier Girard/CIFOR

Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 23 Dec 2020

Pollution, water cuts strengthen calls for environmental law reform in Malaysia

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 23 Dec 2020

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020

2020’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Emma Critchley, Douglas McCauley 21 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Widodo Ramono, the man on a mission to save Sumatran rhinos

Rahmadi Rahmad 17 Dec 2020

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment

Tiffany Higgins 16 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

Restaura Cerrado: Saving Brazil’s savanna by reseeding and restoring it

Sarah Sax 14 Dec 2020

‘She goes and helps’: Noemí Gualinga, Ecuador’s mother of the jungle

Mayuri Castro 13 Dec 2020
A bison in the holding pen. Image © Clay Bolt/WWF.

Hope and peace: Bison return to the Rosebud reservation

John Cannon 10 Dec 2020

Sri Lanka to the U.K.: Here’s your waste back. And there’s more to come

Malaka Rodrigo 9 Dec 2020

‘Turning fear into strength’: One woman’s struggle for justice and land rights in Sulawesi

Febriana Firdaus 1 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

Anna-Catherine Brigida 25 Nov 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

Inside the weaving protests of West Timor

Febriana Firdaus 20 Nov 2020

Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)

Resson Kantai Duff 19 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Brazil art exhibition showcases an Indigenous worldview and poses questions

Sibélia Zanon 19 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020
New York, NY - January 7, 2020: Former Vice President & Democratic hopeful Joe Biden made foreign policy statement at Current on Pier 59, Lev Radin for Shutterstock

Biden’s election is good news for the climate. But what comes next?

Ashoka Mukpo 13 Nov 2020

The women of Kendeng set their feet in cement to stop a mine in their lands. This is their story.

Febriana Firdaus 13 Nov 2020
Construction on the Pan Borneo Highway in northern Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay.

Activists in Malaysia call on road planners to learn the lessons of history

John Cannon 13 Nov 2020

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