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In Raja Ampat, pearl farming balances business and ecological sustainability

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2024

Indonesia unveils plan to launch a satellite network for maritime monitoring

Basten Gokkon 6 Mar 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024
Christine Maïsali, a victim of a work accident on SOSUCAM's plantations, with her husband, Farwe Kossombele.

Labor abuse and work accidents on plantations of Cameroon’s largest sugar producer

Yannick Kenné 31 Jan 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Indonesian palm oil firm fined for fires sues expert a second time over testimony

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Jan 2024
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How independent journalism uncovered a massive crime against people and planet

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 9 Jan 2024

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Enrique Vera 2 Jan 2024
A logger carries his chainsaw through the forest of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. He will sell the timber to garment factories.

Shrinking civil space and persistent logging: 2023 in review in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Cowan, Gerald Flynn 28 Dec 2023
Peter Nagul sit on the rubble that used to be his house.

Violent evictions are latest ordeal for Kenya’s Ogiek seeking land rights

Anthony Langat 20 Dec 2023

‘The police are watching’: In Mekong countries, eco defenders face rising risks

Hướng Thiện 18 Dec 2023

Small farmers caught in Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Aseanty Pahlevi, Victor Fidelis Sentosa 14 Dec 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson, Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Yusie Marie, M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023
The Xingu River in the Amazonian state of Pará. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto / Amazon Watch.

Mining company Belo Sun sues environmental defenders in intimidation tactic, NGOs say

Aimee Gabay 12 Dec 2023
Portrait of Quinto Inuma. Image courtesy of Quinto Inuma.

Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon

Geraldine Santos, Gloria Alvitres 7 Dec 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023

Report shines partial light on worst labor offenders in opaque fishing industry

Edward Carver 21 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
Laércio Guajajara.

The trial that could change the fate of the Guajajara

Ingrid Barros, Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023
A lobster larva. Image by Fathul Rakhman/Mongabay-Indonesia.

Indonesia welcomes new Singapore regulation to help curb lobster smuggling

Basten Gokkon 18 Nov 2023
Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

‘We won’t give up’: DRC’s Front Line Defenders award winner Olivier Ndoole Bahemuke

Elodie Toto 17 Nov 2023

Crime analysis sheds light on tiger poaching in Malaysia

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023

How the U.S. financial system props up illegal logging and mining

Maxwell Radwin 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders need both state and EU support (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 25 Oct 2023
Confiscated skins of poached leopards in Chitwan, Nepal.

In biodiverse Nepal, wildlife crime fighters are underpowered but undeterred

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
Volunteer teacher Chad Booc. Image by Chad Booc's via Facebook.

Who were the 11 Philippines environmental defenders killed in 2022?

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Sep 2023

In Indonesia, ‘opportunistic’ whale shark fishery shows gap in species protection

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2023
Maria Bernadete Pacífico was the leader of Pitanga of Palmares quilombo, located in Bahia state. Image courtesy of CONAQ.

Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights

Jenny Gonzales 5 Sep 2023

Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply

Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes 24 Aug 2023

Indonesia, Singapore to work more closely against lobster larvae smugglers

Yogi Eka Sahputra 23 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

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