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Kellogg’s latest to freeze Indonesian supplier over palm oil violations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2023
Fetiya Ousman on a patrol.

Balancing elephant conservation and community needs: Q&A with award-winning ranger Fetiya Ousman

Solomon Yimer 8 Sep 2023

Brazil cap-and-trade carbon framework in sight, but agriculture gets a pass

Sarah Brown 6 Sep 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Ecuador referendum halts oil extraction in Yasuní National Park

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2023
River in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

The deceptions of the Amazon Summit in Belém (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023

Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 11 Aug 2023
A coral reef and fish in the mouth of the Amazon River.

Amazon Summit nations agree on saving rainforest — but not on conservation goals

Sarah Brown 11 Aug 2023

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

André Schröder 10 Aug 2023
Indigenous activists demand justice after five from their communities were shot.

Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’

Karla Mendes 9 Aug 2023
A small-scale fisher from Madagascar.

Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU

Edward Carver 7 Aug 2023

Amazon Summit sparks hope for coordinated efforts from the rainforest nations

Sarah Brown 4 Aug 2023

Killing of U.S. biologist adds to rising violence against scientists in Mexico

Astrid Arellano 4 Aug 2023

Ecuador pig & poultry farm pollution sparks protest amid IDB, IFC loans

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Aug 2023
A Sumatran elephant in South Sumatra.

Elephant encounters rattle farmers in Indonesia’s Jambi province

Yitno Suprapto 1 Aug 2023

As human-wildlife conflict simmers, Nepal revises compensation program

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Jul 2023
A worker in an oil palm plantation.

Most Indonesian palm oil firms not sharing land with small farmers as required: audit

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jul 2023

Peace: A new tool for reducing deforestation in the Colombian Amazon

Sarah Sax 18 Jul 2023
Katia Silene shows the Brazil nuts.

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

Maurício Angelo, Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2023

Indigenous villagers still lack safe land, water & food after 2019 dam burst

Nina Rocha 12 Jul 2023
Protest action in front of the PT BGA office demanding the release of the criminalized farmers.

Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers

Richaldo Hariandja 10 Jul 2023

Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict

Agus Mawan 10 Jul 2023

Opposition grows to Indonesia’s resumption of sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon, Sarjan Lahay 8 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023

A standing Amazon Rainforest could create an $8 billion bioeconomy: Study

Sarah Brown 4 Jul 2023
Desta Melaku, one of the board member of Guassa Community Conservation Office, stands in front of a field of guassa grass. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay.

Tested by COVID and war, an Indigenous conservation system in Ethiopia prevails

Solomon Yimer 4 Jul 2023
Tigers in Nepal. Photo credit: DNPWC/NTNC/Panthera/WWF/ZSL

Tigers cross borders but struggle to move safely within Nepal, study suggests

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Jun 2023

As one Brazilian state takes up carbon trading, others may fall for the ‘illusion’

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2023

Despite billions tied to clean supply chains, China’s Cofco still turns to deforesters

Sasha Chavkin 20 Jun 2023
At an assembly, the president of the Shuar Arutam People shows banners saying “No to mining.”

Over a third of conflicts over development projects affect Indigenous people: Study

Sandra Cuffe 19 Jun 2023
Fishers in Marshall

Can an app help Liberian artisanal fishers fight illegal fishing?

Edward Blamo 12 Jun 2023

Experts, activists unite to blast Indonesia’s U-turn on sea sand exports

Basten Gokkon 6 Jun 2023

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