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As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025

Environmental & rights activists flee and hide as M23 captures DRC’s cities

Elodie Toto 18 Feb 2025

Amid bombs and chaos, Goma’s displaced residents share their fears and hopes

Ajabu Adolphe 17 Feb 2025

Indonesia’s militarized crackdown on illegal forest use sparks human rights concerns

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025
Congolese troops in the eastern DRC during fighting with M23 in 2013. Image © MONUSCO/Clara Padovan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

The key factors fueling conflict in eastern DRC

John Cannon 14 Feb 2025

Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Feb 2025

Darfur’s women refugees lead reforestation of war-blighted Sudan–Chad borderland

Robert Bociaga 10 Feb 2025

Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2025
Artisanal miners in Rubaya area, DRC.

How illicit mining fuels violence in eastern DRC: Interview with Jean-Pierre Okenda

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Feb 2025

Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Mother of 2 jailed in Sumatra as wildfires dragnet continues to catch small farmers

Teguh Suprayitno 4 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025

No justice in sight for World Bank project-affected communities in Liberia

Victoria Schneider 3 Feb 2025

Yanomami sees success two years into Amazon miner evictions, but fears remain

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jan 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025
Two rangers in Kasigau Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya.

What does an NGO do when its funds are tied to human rights abuses? Interview with John Knox

Latoya Abulu 27 Jan 2025
Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

‘We’re getting back on track’: Interview with IBAMA head Rodrigo Agostinho

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025
Domesticated yaks ferry essential supplies on the Sagarmatha trekking trail. Image by Shashwat Pant.

Helicopters slash the trek to Earth’s highest peak, but leave Sherpas grounded

Shashwat Pant 21 Jan 2025

In Uganda, local communities bear the brunt of militarized conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2025

African Parks closes deal to manage Ethiopia’s Gambella National Park

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Jan 2025
Oil palm fruits harvested in Kalimantan.

NGOs raise concerns over Borneo pilot of ‘jurisdictional’ certification for palm oil

Rendy Tisna 10 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025

Indonesian president says palm oil expansion won’t deforest because ‘oil palms have leaves’

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jan 2025
Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus) courtesy of Staffan Widstrand/Swedensbigfive.org.

Sweden’s wolf hunt starts, aims to halve population

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2025
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024

New campaign seeks swifter justice for slain South African wildlife ranger

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Dec 2024
Deforestation in Vinh Kien, northern Vietnam.

Internet crackdown shrinks already constrained room for activism in Vietnam

Hướng Thiện 24 Dec 2024
An elephant with her mahout at the project

The 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2024

Latoya Abulu 23 Dec 2024
On Dec. 4, 2024, Brazilian President Lula signed the homologation of three Indigenous territories, bringing to 13 that he’s demarcated since taking office in January 2023. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Office of the Brazilian Presidency.

Brazil’s Lula approves 13 Indigenous lands after much delay, promises more to come

Fernanda Wenzel 23 Dec 2024

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

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