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New zipline on Rio’s Sugarloaf raises outcry from conservationists

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2023

Namibia’s first peoples struggle to access their traditional lands (commentary)

Izzy Sasada 19 Apr 2023
A small cat.

Small cats face big threats: Reasons to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 19 Apr 2023
Eduardo Mendúa

Indigenous leader assassinated amid conflict over oil that divided community

Ana Cristina Alvarado 17 Apr 2023

‘They have conned us out of our lands’: Conflict brews in Peru as Mennonite settlers clear forest

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2023

Report sums up Bolsonaro’s destruction legacy and Amazon’s next critical steps

Sarah Brown 11 Apr 2023
Promotional image of the project. Courtesy of Nathalie Lum, Chair of CABEF 2023 CAPS

CAPS, new gas megaproject, aims to power Central Africa, but at what cost, critics ask

Elodie Toto 11 Apr 2023

To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest

Basten Gokkon 10 Apr 2023

Indonesian Indigenous group AMAN wins Skoll Award for defending land rights

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Apr 2023
The banks of the Madeira River in the municipality of Porto Velho

‘Gold library’ helps Brazil crack down on Amazon’s illegal mining

Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie, Avener Prado 6 Apr 2023

Element Africa: Gold in Ghana, oil in Nigeria, and fracking in South Africa

Mongabay.com 5 Apr 2023

Rainforest reporting: Journalists discuss the challenges & dangers of Amazonia

Carolina Conti 4 Apr 2023

India cheetah births spark interest in fast felines in neighboring Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 3 Apr 2023
Chief Patiburi Pataxó stands on the beach of the reclaimed Quero-Ver community.

Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders

Sarah Sax, Hanna Wallis 31 Mar 2023

In central Brazil, mining company ignores Quilombola concerns over gold project

Sandra Silva, from The Mining Observatory 29 Mar 2023

Mexico’s Tren Maya hotel construction clears forest reserve without permits

Maxwell Radwin 29 Mar 2023
A Quilombolas man lights candles in the cemetery.

RSPO suspension of Brazil palm oil exporter tied to Mongabay land-grabbing report

Karla Mendes 29 Mar 2023
A worker sorts through harvested oil palm.

How do oil palm companies get away with disregarding Indonesian law? (commentary)

Tania Li 29 Mar 2023
Forest in Peru.

Citizen-run conservation booms in South America, despite state neglect

Shanna Hanbury 28 Mar 2023

Human migration to Nepal’s tiger capital adds to conservation challenges

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023

Paraguay weighs natural gas drilling in Médanos del Chaco National Park

Maxwell Radwin 23 Mar 2023
A Pa

Senegal herders demand return of grazing grounds controlled by U.S. firm

Elodie Toto 23 Mar 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023
rhino calves in Chitwan

For rescued rhino calves in Nepal, return to the wild is a fraught option

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Mar 2023

As crop-raiding animals reach an all-time high, food-crisis hit Sri Lanka looks for solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2023

UN denounces new attacks on Indigenous people in Nicaragua’s largest reserve

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2023
A member of the Sámi Indigenous people tends a reindeer in Sweden.

Sámi rights must not be sacrificed for green energy goals of Europe (commentary)

Karin Nutti Pilflykt 20 Mar 2023
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Mar 2023
vulture Nepal

Nepal’s vultures, recovering from a poisoning crisis, fly into another

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Mar 2023

How we built a database of conflicts driven by Indonesia’s palm oil smallholder scheme

Tom Walker 16 Mar 2023

Deforestation on the rise in Quintana Roo, Mexico, as Mennonite communities move in

Robin Canul, Valeria Contreras 15 Mar 2023
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap.

As Himalayas thaw, snow leopards scramble for habitat: Q&A with Bikram Shrestha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Mar 2023

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