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UN accuses Indonesia’s No. 2 palm oil firm of rights & environmental abuses

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Mar 2025
Image of a critically endangered western chimpanzee. Image by Christoph Wurbel via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Guinea greenlights gold mine in habitat of critically endangered chimpanzees

Victoria Schneider 26 Feb 2025
CTPH also supports alternative livelihoods through a social enterprise, Gorilla Conservation Coffee, which supports and markets premium coffee grown by farmers near Bwindi. Image courtesy of Jo-Anne McArthur.

Coffee companies are readier for the EUDR than they claim (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Feb 2025
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

UN biodiversity decision 16/2 is ‘unencumbered by economic thinking’ (analysis)

Joseph Henry Vogel 21 Feb 2025
A coal-fired power plant at night in the nickel industrial area in Halmahera.

US security think tank warns of China’s grip over Indonesian nickel industry

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Feb 2025

Many companies meet climate pledges on paper — not on the ground, analyst says

Mike DiGirolamo 18 Feb 2025

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Feb 2025

Surge in legal land clearing pushes up Indonesia deforestation rate in 2024

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Feb 2025

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

Victoria Schneider 3 Feb 2025
An oilfield location in Muanda early in the morning.

DRC orders environmental, operational audits of oil company Perenco

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Jan 2025

Coming to a retailer near you: Illegal palm oil from an orangutan haven

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jan 2025
Thai activists

Thai farmers demand action to restore ecosystems, compensate for invasive fish

Carolyn Cowan 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
An orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Indonesian company defies order, plants acacia in orangutan habitat

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

Companies banking on tech and collaboration to comply with EUDR

Sarah Brown 31 Dec 2024
The Hadong power plant in South Korea co-fires coal with woody biomass, allowing it to claim it is reducing emissions under the UN loophole.

South Korea slashes forest biomass energy subsidies in major policy reform

Annelise Giseburt 20 Dec 2024

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024

Even for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge

Maxwell Radwin 19 Dec 2024
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Can the Cali Fund provide a rights-based remedy for biopiracy? (commentary)

Alex Reep, Jasmine Betancourt, Nissim Roffe Piket, Victoria Osanyinpeju 18 Dec 2024

What’s the TFFF? A forest finance tool ‘like no other’ shows potential

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024

Indonesian forests put at risk by South Korean and Japanese biomass subsidies

Annelise Giseburt 12 Dec 2024

Deadlocked plastic treaty talks will lead to renewed negotiations in 2025

Charles Pekow 10 Dec 2024
Banner image of a water vole beside a plastic bottle in Derbyshire, U.K., courtesy of Jack Perks/Greenpeace.

Coca-Cola cuts back on reusable plastic pledge

Kristine Sabillo 6 Dec 2024

Namibian conservancies fight to block mining threat to rhinos

Victoria Schneider 2 Dec 2024

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

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024
Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

How ‘waste colonialism’ underpins Asia’s plastic problem (commentary)

Coleen Salamat 18 Nov 2024

Fresh calls for oil giants to pay $12 billion for Niger Delta pollution

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Nov 2024
Kapuas Hulu, a province in West Kalimantan in the co-called "Heart of Borneo", is one of the pilot provinces. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Do forest conservation pledges work? (commentary)

Matthew Spencer 6 Nov 2024
A woman pulls a large bag filled with plastic in a landfill in Bangladesh.

U.S. toughens stance on plastics production in run-up to key treaty summit

Charles Pekow 5 Nov 2024

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