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A reef shark in Fiji.

Sharks received landmark protection to combat fin trade, but the culling must stop (commentary)

Trang Chu Minh 3 Jan 2023
Tanzanian police officer in dull green riot gear and helmet, pictured against the sky guarding waste dump site at Barrick Gold's North Mara mine. Image courtesy Catherine Coumans / Mining Watch.

Element Africa: Deadly violence and massive graft at Tanzania and DRC mines

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2022

Indonesia’s ‘essential’ mangroves, seagrass and corals remain unprotected

Basten Gokkon 30 Dec 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022
A tall red angelim.

Amazon’s tallest tree at risk as deforestation nears

Sarah Brown 28 Dec 2022
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022
A European bison running.

Mongabay’s 10 most popular videos of 2022

Lucia Torres 28 Dec 2022
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022

Fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru: Q&A with prosecutor Alberto Caraza

Maxwell Radwin 26 Dec 2022
A Dutch super trawler pulling in the net.

Mongabay Explains: What’s all the brouhaha over bottom trawling?

Mongabay.com 23 Dec 2022

In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Varney Kamara 22 Dec 2022

Landmark bill will ban the shark fin trade in the US

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Dec 2022

Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador

Antonio José Paz Cardona 21 Dec 2022
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022
The shuttered Eurokeys recycling plant in the town of Zielona Góra. Image by Eva Dunal/Outriders.

Into the Wasteland, part 3: Buried in Europe’s recycling

Mongabay.com 20 Dec 2022
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
A dead dolphin washed up.

Black Sea dolphin deaths prompt ecocide allegations against Russia

Elizabeth Fitt 16 Dec 2022
The developers on Koh Toteung smothered the island's corals in sand while creating an artificial beach in June 2022.

Island shopping: Cambodian officials buy up the Cardamoms’ coast

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Vutha Srey 16 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022
The Long Xing 621, one of DOF’s boats, hauls up a shark.

Dalian Ocean Fishing, subject of Mongabay probe, now sanctioned by U.S.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022
The blackened earth shows where banana trees used to be.

“Sinchiurco is coated with oil”: The Kichwa people going up against Petroecuador

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Dec 2022
British plastic packaging and other waste soils the countryside as far away as Turkey (pictured). Image by Caner Ozkan via Greenpeace Media Library.

Is waste crime ‘the new narcotics’ in the U.K.? Into the Wasteland, part 2

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2022

‘Panic’ sets in as armed groups occupy, deforest Colombian national park

Astrid Arellano 12 Dec 2022
A Philippine pangolin hangs on to a branch.

For Philippine pangolins, tourism’s return could spell trouble

Keith Anthony Fabro 12 Dec 2022
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022
A mountain of UK plastic waste near Wespack Recycling Factory in Malaysia, via Greenpeace Media Library.

True eco-crime in the U.K., ‘Into the Wasteland’

Mongabay.com 6 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

New criminal code rings alarms for environmental protection in Indonesia

Basten Gokkon 6 Dec 2022
Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc. captured October 2022 shows several recently cleared areas in the territory of the Indigenous community of Puerto Nuevo.

Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Dec 2022

Rare, critically endangered gecko making dramatic recovery in Caribbean

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2022

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