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Solitary figure in a partly cultivated field, Nimba mountain range in the background. Image by Maarten van der Bent via Flickr CC BY-SA-2.0

Liberian villagers threaten to leave mining agreement, citing broken promises

Varney Kamara 27 Jan 2022

Mau Forest rehabilitation still overshadowed by forced evictions

Keit Silale 25 Jan 2022

Attack on environmental lawyer’s home alarms DRC rights defenders

Soraya Kishtwari 25 Jan 2022

Grounded by conflict and COVID, Colombia’s bird tourism struggles to soar

Genevieve Glatsky 14 Jan 2022
Protestors with signs protesting EACOP, ReconAfrica projects. Image courtesy 350.org

Total’s oil pipeline gets go-ahead from Ugandan MPs despite secret terms

Thomas Lewton 14 Jan 2022

Analysts point to logging and mining to explain Solomon Islands unrest

Rachel Donald 13 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

Josefina Tunki: ‘If we have to die in defense of the land, we have to die’

Ana Cristina Basantes 5 Jan 2022

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Edward Carver 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021

‘Land mafia’ makes its mark in a Sumatran village’s fight against oil palm firm

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Dec 2021
Small-scale gold mining

Secrecy shrouds new gold mining deal in Guyana’s Marudi mountains

Laurel Sutherland 22 Dec 2021
Kahuzi-Biega National Park rangers stand in formation at the park in October, 2016. Photo by Thomas Nicolon for Mongabay.

Deadly raids are latest case of abuse against Indigenous Batwa in DRC park, groups say

Laurel Sutherland 21 Dec 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

Santiago Luque Pérez 20 Dec 2021

Indonesians protesting against mines run growing risk of ‘criminalization’

Agus Mawan, Nuswantoro 17 Dec 2021

In Colombia, threatened women of the Wayuú community continue to fight rampant mining

Carol Sánchez 13 Dec 2021

Lack of resolution mechanisms allow palm oil conflicts to fester in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Nov 2021

Conflict and climate change are big barriers for Africa’s Great Green Wall

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Nov 2021

Indigenous mine opponents targeted in raids during state of siege in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Nov 2021
Elephant

You can move an elephant to the jungle, but it won’t stay there, study says

Carolyn Cowan 12 Nov 2021

In Mozambique, mystery of tuskless elephant points to poaching as the culprit

Malavika Vyawahare 11 Nov 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique and Ana Magalhães/Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021

Struggle endures for Philippine community pitted against gold miner

Karlston Lapniten 9 Nov 2021

In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2021

Philippine wetland oil riches untouched by war now up for grabs in peacetime

Bong S. Sarmiento 28 Oct 2021

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Oct 2021

Indigenous group faces eviction for ‘New Bali’ tourism project in Sumatra

Tonggo Simangunsong 25 Oct 2021

On Nigeria-Cameroon border, joint patrols throw a lifeline to threatened apes

Orji Sunday 25 Oct 2021

Paper giants’ expansion plans raise fears of greater deforestation in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2021

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