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People protesting against fossil fuels and related pollution in Africa.

Element Africa: A lawsuit over oil, deaths over mining, and worries over lithium

Mongabay.com 10 Feb 2023
The Javari River where it forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil-U.S. cooperation is key for global forest conservation (commentary)

John Reid, Paulo Moutinho 9 Feb 2023
Ann Dumaliang.

Saving Masungi, a last green corridor of the Philippines: Q&A with Ann Dumaliang

Jewel S. Cabrera 9 Feb 2023

Mechanization of illegal gold mining threatens Ghana’s forests

Elodie Toto 8 Feb 2023
Mining rafts and dredges on the Puré River.

Illegal mines and “floating towns” on the Puré River leave uncontacted Indigenous peoples at risk

Pilar Puentes 6 Feb 2023
Three wild water buffaloes.

Nepalis’ love of momos threatens endangered wild water buffaloes

Abhaya Raj Joshi 6 Feb 2023

The illegal jaguar trade is thriving online. Why aren’t governments stopping it?

Maxwell Radwin 2 Feb 2023

Changing circumstances turn ‘sustainable communities’ into deforestation drivers: Study

Kimberley Brown 1 Feb 2023
A coral reef in Thailand.

Thai government turns its sights on illegal coral trade

Kannikar Petchkaew 1 Feb 2023

Element Africa: Lead poisoning, polluted rivers, and ‘calamitous’ mining regulation

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2023

Indigenous communities threatened as deforestation rises in Nicaraguan reserves

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2023

Liberian courts rubber-stamp export shipment of illegal logs

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jan 2023
An overflight conducted by Greenpeace and Instituto Socioambiental in December 2022 spotted four excavators near an illegal road recently discovered inside the Yanomami Indigenous territory, one of the most endangered areas of Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction

Dimitri Selibas 26 Jan 2023
Mennonites in the municipality of Bacalar.

Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 26 Jan 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an Indigenous hospital and the Indigenous health support house in Boa Vista.

Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis

Sarah Brown 25 Jan 2023
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Rare case of rhino poaching jolts conservation community in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Jan 2023
Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira (left) and Nelly Marubo.

‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy

Max Baring 23 Jan 2023
Thai reefer Precious 9.

Study aims to unmask fishing vessels, and owners, obscured by loopholes

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jan 2023
A member of the Pataxó community.

Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office

Karla Mendes 20 Jan 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023
Tulshi Laxmi Suwal.

‘Sustainable livelihoods go a long way’: Q&A with pangolin expert Tulshi Suwal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jan 2023
An elephant in Kui Buri National Park.

Corruption scandal in Thai parks agency has far-reaching impacts, activists say

Kannikar Petchkaew 17 Jan 2023

At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land

Ashoka Mukpo 17 Jan 2023
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Poisoned by pesticides: Health crisis deepens in Brazil’s Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 16 Jan 2023
A heron in a tree.

Birds in Bangladesh find a new lease of life in community-run sanctuaries

Abu Siddique 13 Jan 2023
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.

Deliberate dumping of plastic trash in the Pacific: How widespread is it? (commentary)

Saam Shams 12 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Venezuela’s Yapacana National Park suffering increasing mining deforestation: report

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
A tokay gecko.

Rumors and misconceptions threaten tokay geckos in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia prosecutors decry ‘lenient’ sentences in palm oil corruption case

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2023

Mexico dismantles illegal fishing cartels killing off rare vaquita porpoise

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jan 2023

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