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Communities band together to save besieged reserve in Bolivia

Iván Paredes Tamayo 20 Nov 2024

The calm before the storm: The first half of the 20th century in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024
Forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on Mutton’s pelt measurements and archaeological remains. Image courtesy of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

How a 160-year-old pelt piqued new findings on Indigenous ‘woolly dog’ breed

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 22 Dec 2023
Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus). Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Audrey Moreng 15 May 2023
A cattle herder in a cattle camp

Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&A with author Guillaume Blanc

Malavika Vyawahare 23 Sep 2022
3. San Ignacio de Velasco was one of the municipalities that lost the most forest cover in Bolivia in 2020. Agribusiness and cattle ranching, were one of the main drivers of this deforestation. Photo by Eduardo Franco and Ernst Drawert for Mongabay.

Forests for sale: How land traffickers profit by slicing up Bolivia’s protected areas

Eduardo Franco Berton 25 Nov 2021

Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 12 Nov 2021
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

‘They took it over by force’: Corruption and palm oil in Sierra Leone

Victoria Schneider 30 Jun 2020

‘If they take our lands, we’ll be dead’: Cameroon village battles palm oil giant

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

How the legacy of colonialism built a palm oil empire

Victoria Schneider 26 Jun 2020

In the Solomon Islands, making amends in the name of conservation

John Cannon 19 Feb 2019

‘I can’t get out’: Farmers feel the pressure as Ecuador’s palm oil sector grows

Kimberley Brown 8 Aug 2018

Brazil’s planned Tapajós dams would increase Amazon deforestation by 1M ha

Rhett A. Butler 14 Sep 2014

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Andrew Mann 7 Jul 2014

With deforestation rising, Brazil sends more police to the Amazon

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2013

Colonization program remains important driver of deforestation in Brazil

Rhett A. Butler 10 Jan 2012

Scientists demand Brazil cease Amazon colonization project

Mongabay.com 27 Aug 2007

Land reform agency sanctions logging in Amazon rainforest park

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2007

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