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Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024
Residents from Gwadar look on the sipping development at the coast.

Balochistan’s Gwadar city sits at the crossroads of climate and conflict

Waqas Alam Angaria 20 Dec 2024
Landscape of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park. Image courtesy of the Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park Committee.

Communities launch new Thawthi Taw-Oo Indigenous Park amid Myanmar civil war

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Dec 2024

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024
A Maasai looking over Ololosokwan. Image by Benjamin Hindrichs.

How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Benjamin Hindrichs 29 Nov 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Nov 2024

Kenya blames and evicts Ogiek people for deforestation, but forest loss persists

Caroline Chebet 28 Nov 2024

Western Kenya’s most important water-capturing forest is disappearing, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Nov 2024

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Kevin Damasio 27 Nov 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024

Hopes and fears for the Amazon: Interview with botanist Hans ter Steege

Peter Speetjens 19 Nov 2024

‘Five years and no justice’ as trial over Indigenous forest guardian’s killing faces delays

Karla Mendes 13 Nov 2024

Brazil calls for ambition at COP but struggles over its own climate policy

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Nov 2024

New Canadian-backed potash mine under fire from Amazon Indigenous groups

Aimee Gabay 7 Nov 2024
Carlos’ fellow guardians carry his coffin

The underreported killing of Colombia’s Indigenous land guardian, ‘The Wolf’ (Photos)

Tony Kirby | Anna Abraham | Cesar Quiroz 7 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024

Study warns that loosened legislation is driving deforestation in Bahia’s Cerrado

Elizabeth Oliveira 4 Nov 2024
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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister and Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024

Indigenous advocates lament decade of failures by Indonesia’s Jokowi

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Oct 2024

Dam terrorism: How mining companies in Brazil scare residents into relocating

Evanildo da Silveira 24 Oct 2024

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Lucas Berti 21 Oct 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024
Canopy coverage over a coffee farm in Los Farallones de Cali, Colombia. Image by Alex Reep for Mongabay.

At COP16, conservationists will be neighbors with the legacy of fortress conservation (commentary)

Alex Reep, Charlotte Sangouard 18 Oct 2024

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Oct 2024

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